Lucinda Williams has always been defiant, and at times downright obstinate, always outspoken. We haven’t heard a full album from Lucinda since 2015 so it stands to reason she’s got
This venerable band, The Nighthawks, the pride of the D.C. area, will reach their 50th year as a band at the end of 2021 with vocalist/harmonicist Mark Wenner as its
Fiona Apple’s Fetch The Bolt Cutters is a triumphant and very well-timed return after an eight-year hiatus. Apple’s fifth album, an introspective, 13 song journey defies genre. Apple sings, raps,
Leave to Joe Ely to deliver the first set of songs meant directly for this health pandemic. While we have all been social distancing. Ely, echoing the sentiments of most,
There is a painful irony to Brett Newski’s latest LP, Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down, as it arrives at a time when the globe is on mandatory lockdown;
Shelby Lynne made her mark 20 years ago with I Am Shelby Lynne, the album which earned her a Best New Artist Grammy nod. This Shelby Lynne is spare, as has
Church House Blues is the most fully realized album of Crystal Shawanda’s split career. She began as an indigenous musician growing up on the Wikwemikong reserve on an island in
Leslie Mendelson’s If You Can’t Say Anything Nice …is a worthy successor to 2017’s Love and Murder, one of the best records of that year (along another on which she
To be clear this is not the first album from Reverend Shawn Amos, it’s just the first with his newly formed band, The Brotherhood. Oh, in case you’re wondering, Amos
Admittedly this writer was drawn to Irish roots rocker Ben Reel when learning that the album was produced by Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack. Then, Reel’s voice just took over
