by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jackson Price and the Blues Rockets – I Used to Have Fun
Blues is far from dead. In recent years, it’s actually had somewhat of a resurgence. While greats from Buddy Guy to Taj Mahal are still kicking, the next generation have begun sowing the seeds of traditionalist and modern blues alike.…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Patrick Ames – Liveness
We live in a time unlike any other. The spread of COVID-19 has made for a time of togetherness in separation that can’t quite be compared to much else in recorded history. As a result, musicians have begun to adapt…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Unthanks – Diversions Vol. 5 – Live and Unaccompanied
From the early days of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset to their configuration as The Unthanks, one of the constants has been the fiddle and vocals of Niopha Keegan. On Diversions Vol. 5 – Live and Unaccompanied, she joins Becky…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Nadia Reid – Out of My Province
Travel can bring change, it can bring personal growth, but it can also help you realise who you really are. For her third album, with the appropriate name Out Of My Province, Reid packed her passport and set off around…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Chance Emerson – A Different Dark
Currently attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Chance Emerson got his start in Asia. Born in Taiwan to a Taiwanese mother and an American father, Emerson grew up in Hong Kong before traveling to the States and pursuing music.…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Jonathan Wilson – Dixie Blur
Over the course of his first three solo albums, Jonathan Wilson has immersed himself in the Laurel Canyon groove. Hanging out in LA with the likes of David Crosby, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, Wilson made records steeped…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The Secret Sisters – Saturn Return
Approximately every twenty-nine and a half years Saturn returns to the location it was at when a person was born. The significance of this cannot be overstated because it also highlights a shift in a woman when she experiences an…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Rose Cousins – Bravado
Technology has created an age of isolation, where we are tethered to other humans by our connections to screens of cell phones and computers, Rose Cousins uses Bravado to take a look at love and romance in this complicated landscape.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Agnes Obel – Myopia
Agnes Obel doesn’t take the easy roads. Myopia is the latest example of that, with her taking a short-sighted approach to creating her music, she notes, “For me the production is intertwined with the lyrics and story behind the songs ……
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Peggy Sue – Vices
Vices. Sometimes they can feel so good, but you know they’re usually wrong. That’s pretty much how Katy Young and Rosa Slade had grown to feel about some of the music they were making as Peggy Sue. Which is why,…