There is a tendency in our world to refer to music created by women as “beautiful” or “angelic” or some other variation of those words. Don’t get me wrong, the [ … ]

Chatting with Stephen Kellogg ahead of his album release was a total pleasure. I caught him live a few years ago and he was so engaging and joyful as a [ … ]

  Who: Ariel Strasser From: Boston, MA (by way of Twin Cities, Minnesota) Song: “Big Hotel Room” Latest Record: Motivation (released October 26, 2018) What About It: “This track started out as kind of [ … ]

Who: Big Jim Brown From: Pensacola, FL Song: “Richard” Latest Album: The Devil on the Other Shoulder (out December 7th) What About It: “The process of recording “Richard” was a bit [ … ]

Who: Great Peacock From: Nashville Song: “Rattlesnale” Latest Record: Gran Pavo Real What About It: “The recording of it is not what I had envisioned in my head when I wrote the [ … ]

  Who: Southern Pine From: Asheville, NC Song: “Way Back Home” Latest Record: Debut EP out in December What About It: “It’s easy to be seduced by nostalgia; To long [ … ]

The most joyful night of music I have ever experienced was Phil Cook and the Guitarheels at their Newport aftershow in 2016. People Are My Drug, Phil’s latest record, came [ … ]

It doesn’t take long listening to The Brother Brothers to realize that they’re doing something special. David Crosby just tweeted the other night that he heard them opening for I’m [ … ]

There were so many great sets at Newport last summer. So many. So it’s stupid and inadvisable to say that there was a “best” set. All that being said, if [ … ]

  Who: The Deep Hollow From: Springfield, Illinois Song: “Freedom Street” Latest record: Weary Traveler (out on November 9th)   What about it:   Micah Walk: “Freedom Street is about homelessness. It’s one of [ … ]