Posts tagged folk

SLAID CLEAVES Still Fighting the War Music Road Records Slaid Cleaves has made a fistful of very fine albums since his migration from Maine down …

SONS OF FATHERS Burning Days Blanco River Music Sons of Fathers, led by David Beck and Paul Cauthen, have been widely accepted by fans of …

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Psychedelic Pill Reprise Records To hear Neil Young described as a “legacy” or “classic rock” act is weird, because few …

CHRIS KNIGHT Little Victories Drifter’s Church Chris Knight has little need for musical experimentation. His grizzled blend of rural poetry and folk-inflected roadhouse rock is …

STEVE FORBERT Over With You Blue Corn Music There’s a bit of irony that the new Bob Dylan album (Tempest) and this new Steve Forbert …

Hardcore troubadour and “Honorary Texan” sticks to the stuff that works on Little Victories By Kelly Dearmore (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) Four years isn’t exactly …

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Carry Me Back ATO Old Crow Medicine Show have carved out their own little niche in Americana by ignoring trends and …

MARVIN ETZIONI Marvin Country! MarvinCountry.com Long before Lone Justice was a rumble down the wire of the biggest thing to hit country, rock or cow-punk, …

RUBY JANE Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness) Vinyl Records With Celebrity (empire of loneliness), 17-year-old fiddle prodigy and emerging singer-songwriter Ruby Jane Smith makes a valiant …

SHAWN COLVIN All Fall Down Nonesuch Released in tandem with her new memoir, Diamond in the Rough, Shawn Colvin’s All Fall Down is the Austin-based …