Album Review: The Human Experience ft. Rising Appalachia - Soul Visions
The Human Experience, an artist I’ve come to know much about recently, will be releasing a new album on Monday, featuring sisters Leah and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia. The album is called Soul Visions, and, upon listening, truly resonates as the vision of three creative souls collaborating to
Remembering Rory Gallagher: "The People's Guitarist"
“Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe.” That’s a wonderful line from The Commitments, a sweet little film about a ragtag assortment of Dubliners who form a soul band. Just think about it: like African Americans, the Irish have lived The Blues for
John Moreland - "Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore"
I don’t watch a lot of television; when I do it’s mostly the news. A busy family life plus a lot of time away on the road certainly puts a kink in being able to keep up with a series-based drama, so I’ve missed most of
Gay Traditions: Texas Songwriter Emily Herring's Honky Tonk Pathways
Texas songwriter
Emily Herring
's new album,
Your Mistake
, came over my desk about a month ago and I fell for her ice-cold honky-tonk songwriting almost immediately. She sings with such confidence, and nails hard-lived country songwriting like nobody's business. And she gets the
The Handsome Family ... On woodpeckers, crows, darkness, philosophy and Leonard Cohen
The Handsome Family talk to Alan J Taylor in steel town (Sheffield, UK.)
After over twenty years together, husband and wife duo, Brett and Rennie Sparks are still bouncing off each other like a pin ball game. I caught up with ‘The Handsome Family’ on a dark rainy night in
Sturgill Simpson's High Top Mountain
Somewhere in Honky Tonk Heaven, the great voices gather in the green room, taking their turns on the stage. They say they play for a split of the tip jar, but money is like manna here and the drinks are free. Even the water tastes like cherry wine. No need