[rating=9.00] It’s been a quick 22 years since Madeleine Peyroux’s breakthrough with Dreamland and ten years since her last album of original songs. Yet, Anthem stands as Peyroux’s greatest work
[rating=7.00] Candi Staton releases her 30th album, Unstoppable, aptly titled for a career in R&B, gospel, blues and even disco. She’s had hits in 5 different decades. Here she reunites
[rating=7.00] Lucie Silvas has made a platinum selling album (2004’s Breathe In), worked with a variety of major labels, and played on stages alongside music’s top selling artists. In one
[rating=8.00] Veteran singer-songwriter David Olney takes a poetic look at the darkness inevitably surrounding the current immigration crisis, pleading for open hearts and mercy in the process. It’s not quite
[rating=8.00] Joe Ely sounds like a Texas version of honky-tonkin’ Hank Williams in these first set of countrified outings captured on Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, but as it unfolds
[rating=8.00] One look at that headline and you’re probably thinking you’ve seen these Linda Gail Lewis collaborations before, most famously with 2000’s You Win Again with Van Morrison. That one
[rating=7.00] Mountain Heart bills itself as a hybrid bluegrass group, of which there are several who have released albums in the last few months. What sets Mountain Heart apart is
[rating=8.00] Seriously, it might not be since the heyday of Ike and Tina Turner that we’ve heard a married couple belt out soulful R&B like War and Treaty, the husband
[rating=8.00] These associations come to mind with the mention of two-time Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale – “That’s Americana,” (for his emcee work with the Americana Music Association as well as
[rating=9.00] Nashville, Will Kimbrough, Mary Gauthier, John Prine and Emmylou Harris all suggest that this must be an Americana record, right? Yes and no. Genre is not important to Shemekia
