ALBUM REVIEW: With ‘Fondness, Etc.,’ Shakey Graves Reembraces His Lo-Fi Roots
Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a.k.a. Shakey Graves, launched his career in 2011 with the DIY exemplar, Roll the Bones. His next album, And the War Came, crept toward higher production values, still toeing a lo-fi line. With Can’t Wake Up, Graves constructed a well-produced, fully instrumented,
ALBUM REVIEW: Ramsey Thornton’s debut LP 'I Called It' Reveals a Fully-Formed Folk Fusion Songwriter and Composer
An argument is circular.
So, too, is Ramsey Thornton’s song about one. The chiming fingerstyle guitar, the jazz-educated percussion, and the vocal melodies of “Chase After You” double back on each other, never quite resolving. There’s a clear sense of a damaged relationship circling the drain, neither
ALBUM REVIEW: Peter Frampton Comes Alive Again on 'Carry the Light'
Peter Frampton comes alive again on his first album of all new material in 16 years. His son Julian joins the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Award-winning guitarist as a writer and producer on the album. On this wide-ranging collection of songs, Frampton also gathers
ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby Walks Off into the Sunset on the Expansive ‘Little Wide Open’
If you’re lucky, the closing of a chapter comes with the kind of clarity that lets you move forward with optimism. Kevin Morby’s eighth album, Little Wide Open, finds him in this spiritual space, at a bittersweet ending, on the cusp of something thrilling and new. Literally, it
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In The Deep End With Taj Mahal
When Taj Mahal started making music more than 60 years ago, no one else sounded like him. From the get-go, Mahal incorporated Caribbean and African stylings into the blues, connecting it more deeply to its origins. Now, more than six decades, and some 60 records into his career, Mahal’