Show Review: Jason Isbell solo at Hylton Center at George Mason University
Jason Isbell photos by Glenn Cook Jason Isbell played a solo show on Thursday January 15 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia that featured a stunner of a setlist that ranged through material from long ago to just recently, and held fans rapt in his tributes to Todd Snider (“Play a Train […]
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Lucinda Williams World’s Gone Wrong Lucinda Williams is pissed off. And now she’s given us World’s Gone Wrong, the protest album I have been waiting for, a set of songs that speak plainly and forcefully to the dark moment we are living through without hedging or nostalgia. Political songs are notoriously hard to pull off. […]
Sophie Gault on the Brutal Honesty and Live Rock ‘n Roll of Unhinged Singer/songwriter Sophie Gault’s new album, Unhinged, arrives on January 23rd, her first with a new label. It builds on years on songwriting and live playing, drawing both on songs that were written very recently, like the title track, songs that were written […]
Various artists Keep Me in Your Heart: the Songs of Warren Zevon There’s a profound irony in Warren Zevon’s work: a songwriter fixated on mortality who left behind songs that continue to outlive him. More than twenty years after his death, Keep Me in Your Heart, a new multi-artist tribute album, suggests why that may […]
Sammy Brue – The Journals (Bloodshot Records) The young troubadour from Utah, Sammy Brue, delivers a new moving and stripped-down album, The Journals, produced by Ben Tanner and mastered by Kimberley Rosen. The album will available via Bloodshot Records on January 23. Armed only with his guitar, a crystal-clear voice, and, most importantly, a song […]
Bill Scorzari “I Stayed” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Bill Scorzari’s song “I Stayed” from his forthcoming album Sidereal Days (Day 2). which is set for release on. Sidereal Days (Day 2) was produced by Bill Scorzari and Neilson Hubbard; recorded by Bill Scorzari at First Thunder Recording in Huntington, NY and by […]