The nine songs on Eight Gates that Jason Molina left behind have taken on an almost mythic quality over the last seven years. Having recorded under the names of Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company as well as his own name, Molina moved…
Bobbie Gentry has always seemed to be defined by the Ode To Billy Joe, yet her next album, The Delta Sweete, a little heard gem from the 60s, never found the audience it deserved. Which just goes to show how fickle…
Julian Taylor has spent his life living between two worlds, while not really being a member of either one. 50% West Indian and 25% Mohawk, he grew up as an indigenous person of colour, raised by a white step-grandmother. As…
“If you’re not going to kick down the door, why go into the room?” asks Rebecca Lovell. It’s really not much of a question for her or her sister and Larkin Poe bandmate, Megan. They are not about to enter…
Phillips Saylor Wisor has led an interesting life, wandering the back roads of the American dream. With Distant he channels the ghosts of the highways and byways. He follows paths established by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and…
“… only time will tell if I reawakened these songs or simply botched them up.” With those words Ester Rose introduces listeners to her EP of covers, My Favorite Mistakes. Covering songs by Sheryl Crowe, Nick Lowe, Roy Orbison and…
We live in strange times. No one is more aware of that than Steve Earle. “One of the dangers that we’re in is if people like me keep thinking that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist or an asshole,…
Jesse Tabish hasn’t given up on computers, yet the leader of Other Lives found himself at a crossroads with For Their Love. “Working with computers you can layer parts forever. I’d forgotten how to pick up a guitar and sing…
The redwood forests of northern California are home to Alec Lytle. While there is a picturesque quality to the surroundings, just like everywhere else people have their problems. Those joys and sorrows that make up life are on display on…
There is not much doubt that we live in strange times and M. Ward’s Migration Stories is the perfect chance to travel the globe, examining what was, what is and what might be. If there’s a sense of dislocation to…
