Features
Thursday, December 16 2010
The Best Americana Music of 2010
2010 was a splendid year for Americana releases; then again, that’s something you can say about any year given the sprawling range of sub-genres under Americana's vast umbrella, a point reinforced again by this year’s Top Ten.
Wednesday, June 30 2010
Phosphorescent: Peeling Back the Surface
Phosphorescent’s Matt Houck talks about his kicking country band, a brush with big time country at Farm Aid and the psychedelic weirdness that lurks just below the surface of his songs.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
The Best Singer-Songwriter Albums of 2009
We got it all in 2009. The stuff right here -- this is singing, this is songwriting. It lives, it breathes, and it bites. Hard.
Columns
Thursday, June 4 2009
To Lefty to Willie to Phossy with Love
Even in railing against the influence of another, the musician must admit that influence and its inescapability. Like Br’er Rabbit and the tar baby, every blow struck just brings the two closer together.
Reviews
Tuesday, May 11 2010
Phosphorescent: Here's to Taking It Easy
Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent incorporates the full band sound of his 2009 Willie Nelson tribute album into his first all-original full length album since 2007 and creates the best album of his career.
Monday, February 2 2009
Phosphorescent: To Willie
Throughout To Willie, you find out Houck not only loves Nelson's music, but he has studied it. On every song he sifts through the track to get at the emotions closest to the bone.
Wednesday, January 2 2008
Phosphorescent: Pride
The pretty, mysterious and spiritual sides of Phosphorescent have been multiplied by a thousand.
Thursday, December 8 2005
Phosphorescent: Aw Come Aw Wry
Looking for something authentic? Be careful what you wish for.
