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Scottish singer songwriter Dean Owens lives up to his ‘Celtic Americana’ moniker having frequently collaborated across the Atlantic. Most notable are his partnerships with Will Kimbrough and Neilson Hubbard followed by his two most recent albums with Calexico in the American southwest. Perhaps ‘Celtic Italiana’ best describes Spirit Ridge, his

Chatham Rabbits is another in a long line of husband-and-wife folk duos that stretches back to at least The Carter Family, but, more than most, the music the couple makes seems tied to their life partnership as much as their musical one. That’s not to say that Sarah and

On their fourth album, Plus One, The War and Treaty transport us into the sonic stratosphere from the album’s opening track, “Love Like Whiskey,” and never let us down as they carry us through the yearnings, the dashed expectations, and the promises of love. In their exuberant vocals, the

For Ron Pope, American Man, American Music is as advertised. The album even kicks off with Pope singing a jaunty bro country-inflected song about picking up “a brown-skinned doll” in Panama. The song swaggers with an easy-going attitude even as Pope reminds us of its title: "Nobody’s Gonna