by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Live From The Ryman Vol. 2
The musical path Jason Isbell has taken isn’t recommended. At the age of 22 he joined the Drive-By Truckers, ending up addicted to alcohol and coke, eventually being asked by the rest of the band to leave. Sober for over…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Renee Maskin – Sage
Just in time for spooky season, Renee Maskin’s ‘Sage’ is set in a haunted house. Directed by John Decker, the music video is captures the eeriness of isolation mixed in with a gorgeous, antiquated aesthetic. It’s a subtle otherworldly mystique…
by Anna Murphy • • Comments Off on Album | Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – In The Dark We Grow
In The Dark We Grow is the fourth full-length album by UK-based folk duo Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage and takes listeners down a different path than their introspective 2022 release Ink of the Rosy Morning, which was born in…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | John Murry and Michael Timmins – A Little Bit of Grace and Decay
John Murry has lived a series of nightmares. At times it plays like a William Faulkner novel, no surprise since he was adopted before birth by his parents in an agreement with a pregnant Cherokee schoolgirl. Raised by his grandmother…
by Anna Murphy • • Comments Off on Album | Kate Prascher – Shake The Dust
The human condition. It is immeasurably complex, multi- faceted, beautiful and terrible, mournful yet joyous – and it has been an endless fountain of inspiration for artists through the ages. It is into this source that Tennessee-born singer-songwriter Kate Prascher…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland
Challenges come in many forms. For Gilliam Welch and David Rawlings one of the biggest was just surviving the hurricane that tore the roof off their Woodland Studio just as Covid was putting the world into a forced hibernation in…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Christina Ward – Darkstar
Christina Ward brings us ‘Darkstar’, the latest single from the Philly songwriter’s upcoming EP, Neon. We were immediately taken by the song’s hypnotic, guitar-driven melody, reminiscent of 70s-era rock opuses this side of Hendrix or ELO. Its brooding structure offers…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Beachwood Sparks – Across The River of Stars
It’s said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but twelve years seems like a lifetime in the music industry. Yet fans waited with bated breath for the fire of Beachwood Sparks to be rekindled. With the release of Across…
by Anna Murphy • • Comments Off on Album | Donovan Woods – Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now
“It was a warts and all album in a way that I never had done before […] a funeral to the life I was living”, Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods muses on his seventh studio album, Things Were Never Good If…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
Jake Xerxes Fussell seems like music’s answer to Dos Equis’ “the world’s most interesting man.” He hosts a radio show on North Carolina’s WHUP-FM in Hillsborough with Jefferson Currie II every Wednesday afternoon. Covering music from Bob Dylan and June…