Alice Gerrard, Jim Watson, Chris Brashear and Cliff Hale– the Piedmont Melody Makers– have a tagline: we “play old-time, country and bluegrass music and make no apologies for it.” No apologies … Read more
Everybody say it with me now: Cleveland Rocks! With Series 2 of Platters du Cuyahoga, Smog Veil Records is shining a light on the hotbed of blues-based garage rock that … Read more
You may not be familiar with Hugh Prestwood’s voice, but chances are you’ve heard his words; the Texas born songwriter’s work has been performed and recorded by Conway Twitty, … Read more
An English music critic once wrote of Kristoffer & the Harbour Heads, “they are three nice blokes from Sweden, but sound like seven men from Mars.” That might indeed be … Read more
Now a decade into their musical partnership, Mark Charles Heidinger and Rose Guerin, who make up the Louisville, Kentucky based Americana duo Vandaveer, sing with a near familial tightness. … Read more
Sean McConnell took the name for his latest project, Cold Country, after a term his Minnesota-born father used to refer to the American Midwest, but during the creating of the … Read more
We can trace many roads to where Rebekah Pahl is as an artist today, on the cusp of releasing her latest EP, Canyons, on November 4th. There’s Pahl as an imaginative … Read more
If you want proof that we tend to end up right where we belong, look no further than songstress Lindsey Webster. Webster set off on a course for medical school, … Read more
Pennsylvania native, now Nashville-based artist Renée Wahl wasn’t always a singer-songwriter. Before beginning a musical career with her band, The Sworn Secrets, she accumulated a few secrets of her own … Read more
Emmylou Harris, Dr. John… Adam Carroll? At only 42, Carroll might seem an unlikely candidate to make the list of recent all-star Tribute treatments, but the Texas singer/songwriter has had … Read more
