VISHTÈN Mōsaïk Vishten 04 www.vishten.net We’ve come to expect exuberance and joy from Francophone music, but does it sound differently if it comes from outside Québec? What happens when Acadian music is played by twin … Continue reading →
SHANNON McNALLY Small Town Talk Sacred Sumac Music 8975 www.shannonmcnally.com Small Town Talk is Shannon McNally’s tribute to Bobby Charles (born Robert Charles Guidry), a wonderful Louisiana-bred songwriter whose songs reach back as far … Continue reading →
EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL Old Yellow Moon Nonesuch 534285 www.nonesuch.com Wonderfully produced by Nashville veteran Brian Ahern (George Jones, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison), who also adds guitar throughout, Old Yellow Moon is the first official … Continue reading →
REBECCA PRONSKY Only Daughter Nine Mile Records 0142 www.ninemilerecords.com “I go deep where my demons sleep,” Brooklyn native Pronsky writes as she explores the underbelly of our existence. The nightime is her friend. The … Continue reading →
VARIOUS Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At the Kennedy Center Legacy Recordings www.legacyrecordings.com Regardless of Eleanor Roosevelt’s attention to leftist music, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) might have been surprised to find Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … Continue reading →
STONE BLIND VALENTINE Burn Like A Field Stone Blind Valentine www.stoneblindvalentine.com It takes more than a bit of musical confidence and know-how to meld a proudly contemporary sense of songwriting and lyricism with an … Continue reading →
RUTH MOODY These Wilder Things Red House 266 www.redhouserecords.com www.ruthmoody.com Ruth Moody is a member of the Canadian roots trio The Wailin’ Jennys. She has won two prestigious Juno awards, and The Wilder Things is … Continue reading →
GENE CLARK Here Tonight | The White Light Demos Omnivore Recordings www.omnivorerecordings.com Heralded in the mid-1960s as America’s Beatles, the Byrds – co-founded by Clark – struck pay-dirt right out-of-the-gate with their ringing version … Continue reading →
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Red River Drifter Red River 052 www.michaelmartinmurphey.com Martin Murphey’s origins provide a key to his music. “I grew up in Texas, the world’s number one musical crossroads where anything goes musically.” … Continue reading →
GURF MORLIX Finds the Present Tense Rootball 06261 36998 www.gurfmorlix.com As the title suggests this is not a bright, sunny set of songs. Gurf Morlix’s ten songs here are nearly relentlessly dark slices of … Continue reading →
