NO DEPRESSION SESSIONS at AMERICANAFEST: Alex Lambert
Fort Worth-bred singer-songwriter Alex Lambert visited us at The Red Building on Nashville's Music Row during AMERICANAFEST 2025 to share three new songs in their most basic form, just vocals and acoustic guitars. The stripped down arrangement naturally put Lambert's soulful rasp front and center in
BONUS TRACKS: International Folk Music Award Winners and More Roots Music News
The 38th annual Folk Alliance International (FAI) conference and festival is still taking place through this weekend, with thousands of participants descending on the already musical city of New Orleans. On Wednesday night, FAI hosted its International Folk Music Awards during a two-hour, star-studded presentation. The categories and nominees are
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Scenes from Above’ Julian Lage’s New Quartet Delivers New Stunning Blues, Jazz, and Soul Quartet
Julian Lage is a ceaselessly inventive composer and one of the best guitarists playing today. On Scenes from Above, produced by Joe Henry, he joins forces with keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Kenny Wollesen in a new quartet to deliver stunning new tunes that move among blues,
ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Gault Lets Her Freak Flag Fly On ‘Unhinged’
“I’m nobody’s pocket change,” sings Sophie Gault on “Pocket Change,” a kiss-off befitting the rough-around-the-edges sound Gault has been perfecting for years, this time on her latest record, Unhinged. Gault’s voice is a pretty snarl, its soft and abrasive sides in beguiling harmony, ideal for telling an
ALBUM REVIEW: The Lowest Pair’s 'Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be' Pushes the Duo to New Musical Realms
The Lowest Pair’s Always as Young as We’ll Ever Be opens like a flower unfolding.
Gentle drones whisper behind banjo and acoustic guitar as “Give it All Away” starts. “By now I wonder how the seasons always seem to take us by surprise,” Kendl Winter and Palmer T.
ALBUM REVIEW: Sammy Brue honors, but does not imitate, Justin Townes Earle on 'The Journals'
In “Let’s Get Lost,” off his latest album The Journals, singer/songwriter Sammy Brue sings about a man who has never taken a chance. Over the languid swing of his unaccompanied guitar he describes the man’s gray, unenviable existence. In the song–and in life–Brue, a professional