“It sure feels good to be singing again,” Bill Callahan’s earthy baritone grins on ‘Writing’, one of the countless gems on his first studio album since 2013’s Dream River. In the intervening period, the 53-year-old has been preoccupied with marriage, fatherhood…
Fifteen years. So much changes in fifteen years. For Calexico and Iron & Wine, what’s changed is the nature of how they record. Years To Burn is a decidedly different beast than their 2005 collaboration In The Reins. There were…
Originally from Florence, Alabama, singer-songwriter Bailey White prides herself on her soul-laden Americana. It’s understandable—evocative of a contemporary spin on the Muscle Shoals style, there’s a lot to appreciate about the work that White is turning. Energizing White’s ascension in…
For today’s session, Grace Gillespie plays us a stripped down version of a recent single. The song is on theme of the the sense of uncertainty that follows from the selective representation prevalent on social media. This was probably my…
Ten years previously, George Wallace infamously stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in a doomed bid to prevent two black students from enrolling. Now here was Neil Young, on stage at the school’s auditorium in 1973, breaking…
This year sees the 30th anniversary of the Divine Comedy’s formation, Neil Hannon’s chamber pop ensemble with a revolving door policy on members. Twenty years on from the end of their greatest commercial successes, Office Politics is their twelfth studio…