Living in Los Angeles can take a lot out of a person. For Eve Adams the city had begun to take a toll. She longed for the open spaces, and the high desert offered the serenity she lacked. As a…
Album | Eve Adams – American Dust
Author: Bob Fish
Album | Marissa Nadler – New Radiations
While Marissa Nadler currently lives in Nashville, in many respects the music of New Radiations may feel more comfortable on the English moors or in the early New England countryside. Between the often gauzy, layered vocals and her sometimes shocking…
Album | Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human
Rather than entering psycho-analysis Hayes Carll made an album. We’re Only Human spends a lot of time looking at life, trying to find answers. Along the way he came up with 10 songs that speak to the human condition and…
Album | Patty Griffin – Crown of Roses
Patty Griffin always seems to find a way to carry on. She’s faced her share of hardship, having recovered from breast cancer and then lost her voice due to radiation treatment. As the youngest of seven children, she had a…
Album | Soft Hearted Scientists – The Phantom of Canton
Explaining the music of Soft Hearted Scientists one struggles to find the proper words. It’s much like trying to make sense of the pathways that lead from George Washington to Donald Trump. The task is to come to terms with…
Album | The Swell Season – Forward
Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of The Swell Season. It’s been sixteen years since Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová released their second album. Unbelievably, an entire generation may never have heard of the band, their film Once or…
Album | Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars – Dreams
Imagine an 84-year-old Canadian woman creating an album with a band of London’s cosmic cowboys. If you made this up no one would believe you. Proving that truth is actually stranger than fiction, the Canadian in question, Bonnie Dobson, joined…
Album | S.G. Goodman – Planting by the Signs
When the whirlwind takes over it blows with unbelievable force, leaving an artist caught up in forces beyond their control. Two years of constant touring had that effect on S.G. Goodman. Getting back to rural western Kentucky she got caught…
Album | Jess Kerber – From Way Down Here
Jess Kerber has a way of tricking you into thinking she’s one thing, before you realise she’s really far more than the sum of her parts. She picked up her first guitar in Nashville at the age of 12, yet…
Album | Chloe Foy – Complete Fool
Four years used to be a lifetime in the music business. The Beatles were releasing albums every three months. Though it’s taken four years for Chloe Foy to offer Complete Fool, it was worth the wait. This is a very…