Posts in category Vol 7 Issue 2

LAURA CANTRELL No Way There From Here Thrift Shop Recordings Over her five albums, New York-via-Nashville alt-country songbird Laura Cantrell has evolved steadily from savvy …

SCOTT H. BIRAM Nothin’ But Blood Bloodshot Records Scott H. Biram has always specialized in capturing the black, tortured depths of the human soul. And …

ELIZA GILKYSON The Nocturne Diaries Red House Records Ever since her by then already three-decade-plus-long music career hit its artistic stride in full with her …

ROSANNE CASH The River & the Thread Blue Note The guitar is all tremble and steam, just a few notes rocking back and forth over a …

PARKER MILLSAP Parker Millsap Okrahoma Records Parker Millsap, the debut album from, let’s see, yeah, Parker Millsap, is actually the Oklahoman’s third release. In this …

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Lucinda Williams Thirty Tigers/Lucinda Williams Music Scour the extensive liners accompanying this deluxe, 25th-anniversary reissue of Lucinda Williams’ self-titled 1988 third album, including …

HARD WORKING AMERICANS Hard Working Americans Thirty Tigers/Melvin When Todd Snider’s friend and co-manager, Great American Taxi keyboardist Chad Staehly, suggested Snider try hanging out …

MIDNIGHT RIVER CHOIR Fresh Air Rambling Gypsy Records On their third album, Midnight River Choir demonstrates just how much that “Choir” in the band’s name …

CODY JOHNSON Cowboy Like Me CoJo Music In that seemingly forgotten golden age of 1990s mainstream country music, one would be hard pressed to go …

ROBERT ELLIS The Lights From the Chemical Plant New West Records As much as one hates to inadvertently set any gifted young hopeful up for …