SPOTLIGHT: Vincent Neil Emerson - "Blue Stars" [VIDEO]

It’s five miles from the Boyles Yard to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Along that southbound route, the sky opens up like a greeting, the fathomless blue interrupted only by the crisscrossing of telephone wires. Bleached gravel litters the journey, and all around, locomotives hiss and howl on the sunbaked rails.

Birmingham-bred, Nashville-based The Brook & the Bluff arrived at Chelsea Studios NYC as a trio for their No Depression Session, with vocal harmonies locked in tight from a decade of daily use. All three songs in this session come from their recent release, Werewolf, a record shaped more by the

Things are starting to pick up in 2026, as March is packed with 40 new roots music albums on our radar! We kicked off the month with Spotlight artist Cat Clyde, who offered a heartbreaking, solo-acoustic version of her new song "Night Eyes," as well as a detailed