Sara Syms – Way Back Home – Album Review Sara Syms’ sophomore album Way Back Home is the sort of music you want to blast along midnight highway drives to both keep you awake and, if you’re like me, quench that unending thirst …
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Album Review: Earnest Lovers – Sing Sad Songs
Album Review: Earnest Lovers – Sing Sad Songs The Earnest Lovers are the best roots country band I’ve heard in several years. Picture yourself living in the heyday of electrified country music, hearing those twangy electric guitars for the first time. Smell the …
Album Review: Anna and Elizabeth – Self titled – Breathtaking Appalachian roots music
Album Review: Anna and Elizabeth – Self titled – Breathtaking Appalachian roots music Listeners can tell from the first notes of “Long Time Travellin’” that Anna and Elizabeth are not trendy revivalists trying to capitalize on traditional songwriters. They are the genuine article. …
Album Review: Pharis and Jason Romero – A Wanderer I’ll Stay – Haunting harmonies, deep truths
Album Review: Pharis and Jason Romero – A Wanderer I’ll Stay – Haunting harmonies, deep truths From my first ever listen of Pharis and Jason Romero it was evident to me that these were two extremely talented Americana artists. They sound like they …
Album Review: Coal Town Rounders – How It Used To Be – Traditional string music done right
It’s hard to explain to folks why some bands have “it” and some don’t, especially in the traditional music space. After all, every traditional band has a guitar, a banjo, and maybe a mandolin and/or fiddle. But the difference is all in the …
Jacob Thomas Jr. – Original Sin – Stunning minimalist singer songwriter
I don’t always think of Woody Guthrie when I listen to folk music, but I sure do with Jacob Thomas Jr. Teetering on that ill-defined line between roots country and folk music, Thomas has the uncanny ability of using finger picking to sooth …
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West – I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both of My Hands – Keeping traditional country music thriving
Every once in a while I run across an album that I find so endearing, so engaging, and so exciting that I struggle to find words for it. I kept this album in my car for my commute for literally weeks, thinking to …
Kelsey Waldon – The Goldmine – Classic country singer songwriter finds emotions you forgot you ever had
Kelsey Waldon is as authentic as Jack Daniels himself. It might be tempting to say she sounds like classic country greats (Kitty Wells, anyone?), but frankly Kelsey Waldon is so good she deserves her own place in the pantheon of great country artists. …
The Fox Hunt – The Fox Hunt EP – Easy, traditional country music
If you were worried that “all the good country music is gone” you really need to pick up a copy of The Fox Hunt EP. It’s got that feeling of your grandpa and his friends standing around the room singing the old standbys. …
Pharis and Jason Romero – Long Gone Out West Blues – Perfect traditional roots country music
With a female lead and high tenor harmonies, Pharis and Jason Romero are the embodiment of all that is wonderful about timeless country music. Although this album is a year old, it’s well worth covering on this site. This is the kind of …
