Life Changes Add Heft and Heart to Andrew Bryant’s ‘A Meaningful Connection’
Andrew Bryant has been grappling with his spirituality and identity across his solo albums from the beginning, but this time feels different. Aside from coming out of a global pandemic, Bryant also recently hit one year of sobriety, a journey he began in earnest while in lockdown. At home in
THE READING ROOM: An Excerpt from 'Saved by a Song,’ Mary Gauthier’s Memoir and Guidebook
When Mary Gauthier was 7 years old, she and her mother would head to the bookmobile on Saturday mornings near their home in Baton Rouge. It was her favorite day of the week. After she got inside the mobile library, she took her time selecting her books: “Kids were allowed
The Flatlanders Add to Their Legend With a Romp Through Favorite Songs
They were once “More a Legend Than a Band.” That’s what happens when your debut album’s release is delayed nearly 20 years and your principal members in the meantime go on to great critical success as solo acts.
Since that first record came out in 1990, the reunited
T. Hardy Morris Sizes Up Society with a Smirk on ‘The Digital Age of Rome’
There is beauty in cynicism. T. Hardy Morris knows this. His latest record, The Digital Age of Rome, takes a dark, gritty look at a society on the brink of collapse due to an overload of technology and performative living on social media. Morris captures all the worst parts of
Faye Webster’s ‘I Know I’m Funny haha’ Subverts Romantic Conventions With Insightful Wit
Nothing is as simple as it first appears in the engaging music of Faye Webster. On her terrific fourth album, I Know I’m Funny haha, the charming Atlanta native spins time-tested tales of romantic longing, disappointment, and occasionally satisfaction, setting her gently tremulous voice to dreamy summertime melodies punctuated
THE READING ROOM: Picture Books for Pint-Sized Country Music Fans
The late, great Shel Silverstein left us with wry, tongue-in-cheek nods to the vagaries of life in songs such as “A Boy Named Sue,” “One’s on the Way,” “Big Four Poster Bed,” “Marie Leveau,” and “The Cover of the Rolling Stone.” Yet, Silverstein might be best remembered, and most