ALBUM REVIEW: Guitarist Nathan Salsburg Delivers Searching Meditation on 'Ipsa Corpora'
Nathan Salsburg, one of the leading lights of fingerstyle acoustic guitar, has long built his reputation on a kind of understated mastery of old-timey folk and traditional American music. While related to the American Primitive guitar movement, his music in both his solo career and as an able sideman
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BONUS TRACKS: New Songs for "No Kings," Juneteenth, and Pride Month
Last Saturday, more than 2,000 cities around the US held "No Kings" protests, which drew between four and six million people, according to The Independent.
Canadian-American banjoist and singer-songwriter Allison Russell and New York City-based hip-hop and bluegrass collective Gangstagrass teamed up for
ALBUM REVIEW: Kelsey Walden looks to the future while interrogating the past on 'Every Ghost'
Since signing to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019, Kelsey Waldon has established herself as a defining talent among her generation of country musicians, penning homegrown, lived-in songs that veered from immensely personal (like 2019’s “Kentucky, 1988”) to societal critiques (“Lived and Let Go” from that
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: Brandy Zdan, Kam Franklin, and Julia Nunes
Typically, I'm unfamiliar with the artists I cover in this column until I run across a campaign that looks interesting and spend some time on YouTube. Considering many crowdfunders are regionally-known acts who are releasing their first or second album, this isn't surprising. But there
ALBUM REVIEW: Love, Legacy, and the Long Road to Lukas Nelson’s 'American Romance'
After more than a decade of leading his band Promise of the Real, Lukas Nelson is going solo with the more personal writing that emerges on his official debut, American Romance. A collection of love songs to the roads that raised him as a young adult constantly on tour, and