Laura Veirs is an accomplished songwriter based in Portland with 20 years of experience under her belt. Her proficiency and attention to detail shine through in this album to create a palette of emotional depth and lightness. This is a…
Folk music has always provided a bastion for aching slices of real-life tales to be digested by a greater audience. In this sense, it’s always been ‘street music’, wherein troubadours brought their stories near and far for all ears to…
Belonging to a very specific scene can be a double-edged situation: everybody knows what to expect from you in terms of sound and style; also, especially when this scene is very localized (in time and/or space), there will be a…
We’ve discovered a new drug. We’re not yet sure of its name, but it’s delivered through the fingers and the voice of harp-extraordinaire Linda Vogel. The Swiss is following up her debut EP with a new single ‘Isis & Osiris’,…
Comprised of singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Darren Guyaz and Beth Wesche, March to May incorporates a broad palette of harp, piano, strings, and horns into their sound. Together, they develop a delicate world set somewhere between that eternal, magnetic push and…
Benjamin Dean Wilson’s newest single, ‘The Smartest Person in the Room’, opens with a compelling swirl of the fiddle. Its warm, full sound may indicate that more of the type of chestnut folk or bluegrass music that you’ve grown up…