Carolyn Kendrick first caught my ear as half of the rootsy duo The Page Turners. Freshgrass was my segway into to their music and Carolyn’s voice, both vocally and instrumentally, [ … ]
Category: Music Features
Foggy Green Mountain Breakdown: Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots 2019
“Because these musicians are amazing. Every single one of them has given us chills. They are the truest in this genre of music. They love what they do. We are [ … ]
Singled Out: Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen “Fear, Love and Greed”
The push and pull of Rebecca Rego’s delivery in “Fear, Love and Greed” feels like your legs are swept out from under you. Initially, soft, delicate and wavering in the [ … ]
Song Premiere: “Talking to Your Ghost,” The Reconstructed
The Reconstructed just released its latest album, Great North Wind, and it’s full of the paradoxes and tensions that make people sit down and write songs to try to make [ … ]
Shows You Should Know: Zach Schmidt w/ I&R in New England (7/6-7/13)
Y’all already probably know how I feel about Zach Schmidt. His last album, The Day We Lost The War, is still one of my favorite records of all time, period, [ … ]
Fresh Track: Tyler Childers “All Your’n”
There is a goddamn vibe to the latest track off Tyler Childers‘ forthcoming Country Squire. Somewhere between rock n’ soul and country, the arrangement is soaked in…just something. [ … ]
Billy Strings Announces New Album, Fall Tour Dates
Get your laptops/phones/tablets out folks and start refreshing your screens because Billy Strings and the boys are heading back out on the road…although they are already full tilt on the [ … ]
Peep This: Lyle Brewer “Ripple”
Saturday night my old man and I went to see Dead & Co. at Gillette Stadium in Mass. I will say that as I have grown older (and my days [ … ]
Singled Out: Josh Gray “Born in Tennessee”
Weeping fiddles, tremolo’ed out guitars and a sepia noir feel explode and mix together in the opening seconds of Josh Gray’s “Born in Tennessee”. You can truly swim in this [ … ]
Singled Out: Ian Steinberg “And Now”
Ian Steinberg’s voice may be delivered with a gentle touch and comforting nature, but his words burrow deep all the while. The questioning nature of his tune “And Now” [ … ]