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 [ … ]
Category: Reviews
Show Review: Josh Ritter at The Wilbur, May 11, 2019
Josh Ritter said that he’s been in a “reflective” mood this year: it’s his twentieth year making music and performing. I first saw Josh live in 2004, after the release [ … ]
First Listen: Emily Mure “Gone For Good” (The Shins)
There are a lot of artists out there who suffer from the malady “cover-a-song-but-its-not-as-good-as-the-original-and-you-didn’t-make-it-your-own”-itis. Emily Mure is not one of those artists. Just today Mure dropped a new single celebrating [ … ]
Sweet, Sweet Nostalgia Redux: “Kat & Brad” Is An Instant Throwback Classic
I may be a mere 34 years of age (actually I am an old man in the current roots landscape…) but my childhood was defined by music and artists [ … ]
Fresh Track: Honeysuckle “Fire Starter”
I’ve often struggled to put the music of Honeysuckle into a box. At one moment the long, whisping branches of traditional American folk music are obvious and run throughout the [ … ]
Fresh Track: Lydia Luce “My Heart in Mind” (String Sessions)
Lydia Luce has been an artist on my periphery for a while now. As an artist residing in and very much involved in the East Nashville community, our friends and [ … ]
Todd Snider “Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3”
I remember it clearly. It was summer between my Freshman and Sophomore year of college and I was trying to dabble in a bit of the “songwriting and acoustic [ … ]
Fresh Track: Izzy Heltai “Marching Song”
There is an ache in Izzy Heltai‘s voice. A longing. Emotion, pure and distilled through the words and chord progressions of his songs. The latest from the Northampton based [ … ]
Fresh Track: Jonah Tolchin “Every Dream Can Become A Nightmare”
Some artists just have a swagger that can’t be touched. A way to inject your body with movement and flow by merely holding one note for a duration of time. [ … ]
Fresh Track: Nate Leavitt “When You’re Ready”
Nate Leavitt has a way of comfortably ripping your heart out. His voice echoing soothing waves across your ear canal while delicately casting shadows of gloom and melancholy across your [ … ]