‘Still Fighting’: Shelby Lynne Marks Her Return to Nashville With Powerfully Honest New Album
Don’t call it a comeback, but in a way, it is one.
Not to the music business, though. Shelby Lynne never left it. She’s been plugging away as a journeywoman singer and songwriter for decades. But about two years ago, she made the same kind of change that
BONUS TRACKS: A Gold-Medal Idea for Arts in the Olympics
I always learn something new when I watch the Olympics. For five minutes, perhaps, I become a little bit of an expert on shot put, and suddenly I know the names of swimmers from countries I’ve never visited. But I learned something new about the Olympics themselves from Pharrell
ALBUM REVIEW: Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters Process the Pleasure and Pain of Looking Back
There’s an emotional yearning in Amanda Anne Platt’s crystalline voice, whether it’s for a person, a place, or a time. Her vocals come across with drenching clarity and vibrance, leaving the listener with their own desire to look back, to set things straight, to love purely, or
ALBUM REVIEW: Amos Lee Searches and Finds on ‘Transmissions’
Amos Lee has been a remarkably busy man as of late. In the last two years, he’s released three full-length studio albums. He began the streak with 2022’s Dreamland (ND review) and followed it up with two tribute albums to two of his greatest musical influences: Chet Baker
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘COUNTRY,’ Skylar Gudasz Plays in Natural and Emotional Environments
If Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann, and Sharon Van Etten’s voices wafted up into a cloud of lavender smoke, Skylar Gudasz would emerge from it in a poof, brilliant and gleaming. The golden-throated Southerner possesses that bewitching vocal quality that seems capable of hypnotizing those who hear it, and on
‘It Was All Right There’: Alison Brown Converses With the Past for ‘Simple Pleasures’ Reissue
Like most humans do at some point, Alison Brown got to thinking recently about her younger self. She was poring through the original tapes of her landmark 1990 album Simple Pleasures in preparation for a reissue, and she wondered about the twenty-something who’d recorded it.
In a way, the