Todd Snider Returns As ‘The Storyteller’ in His New Recording
Americana’s Todd Snider delivers his story songs with gusto and tells his shaggy dog tales with mischievous glee on Live: Return of the Storyteller.
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Kenny Roby Suggests Simple Music Is More Special and Complex Than It Seems
Kenny Roby has learned the more obvious facts of life are as byzantine as observing the world without filters. He sings these modest verities like he means them.
Veronica Stanton’s “I’m No Good” Is a Dreamy Americana Tune About Mental Health
Veronica Stanton’s “I’m No Good” centers on mental health and healing. The Nashville songwriter reflects on her dreamy Americana tune.
T Bone Burnett and Company Cast Sci-Fi ‘Spells’ with an ‘Invisible Light’
T Bone Burnett, keyboardist Keefus Ciancia, and drummer Jay Bellerose create a dystopian vision of the future as the present on The Invisible Light: Spells.
Forrest McCurren Shows Why He Goes ‘Oh Me, Oh My’
Oh Me, Oh My reveals that Americana artist Forrest McCurren has a talent for writing catchy yet subtle songs about the human condition through the eyes of various narrators.
Josh Rouse Gets Back to Basics on ‘Going Places’
After a holiday album and a record that swapped guitars for synthesizers, Josh Rouse returns to wistful Americana in fine style on Going Places.
Jim Lauderdale Plays Twangy Music From the Past for Today’s Country Audiences
Americana’s Jim Lauderdale goes back to the 1960s with Game Changer, which he purposely created in the style of those twangy albums from the past.
James and the Shame Celebrate Long-Time Love With “Where We’re Going” (premiere)
James and the Shame’s Rhett McLaughlin discusses “Where We’re Going” and where he’s been with his wife, Jessie, as they team up on this warmhearted Americana duet.
Inside ‘Modern Folk One’ lurks one strangely fascinating Americana album.
Modern Folk One rings from serenely pastoral to shockingly different, making it a terrifically new twist to some sounds that are, on their own, not that surprising.
Andrew Combs Finds ‘Sundays’ Will Never Be the Same
Sundays suggests Americana singer-songwriter Andrew Combs is looking for meaning in a meaningless world and finds it by not finding it.
The Power of Amanda Shires’ Voice Reverberates Throughout ‘Take It Like a Man’
Emotionally Amanda Shires’ Take It Like a Man interlaces heartache and disappointment with the profoundly temporal joys of new beginnings and aches of desire.
Lera Lynn Hits a Career High with ‘Something More Than Love’
Lera Lynn’s ability to balance some of her most personal lyrical matter with a newfound pop ebullience comes through resoundingly on Something More Than Love.
