Ally Venable
If you don’t know anything about Ally Venable, it’s time you found out. Although she looks the part of music ingenue, she’s been winning awards as a blues guitarist since … Read more
Reviews
Mauricio Morales
Caught between a youthful fascination with the moon, the verdant wonders of nature and the residual effects of helplessly watching from afar as a 2017 earthquake devastated his hometown of … Read more
Various Artists
Hold off on the cake and balloons for now. Before getting around to the usual rituals of celebrating a quarter century of revelatory indie folk and singer-songwriter discoveries, while also … Read more
Joyann Parker
Ready to take on the world, Joyann Parker escapes the ill-lit prison of her own mind in the deeply soulful, slow-rising title track that ends her sophomore LP Out of … Read more
Saugeye
Go ahead and call Saugeye “old fashioned.” Rather than take offense, the Tulsa-based cooperative, led by soulful singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and hobbyist fisherman Jared Tyler, would almost certainly see it as … Read more
A.J. Croce
A.J. Croce is serious about music. In addition to demanding of himself the highest level of proficiency on keyboards and guitar, he’s a student of music history, with a wide … Read more
I’m Too Old for this Sh*t
Heavy metal sits one step below nonstop Polka music in my “favorites” list, and a traditional documentary about a dissolved local Florida band sounds like a world-class yawn, but I’m … Read more
Uncle Walt’s Band
Synchronicity. Walter Hyatt and I shared it in buckets during the decade we knew each other, and it still gently turns up a quarter of a century after he “left … Read more
Karen Matheson
Still Time is an absolute delight, a truly superb, eleven-track release that is nothing short of sublime. Matheson is best known for her voice as singer with a leading Scottish … Read more
