Ruby Dice – Take Me Back Packaged in an artistically busy one-color illustration, the music is decorated wildly in this expressive 10-track collection with varied guests. This interesting showcase celebrates the Austin, TX music community with Take Me Back – A Love Letter To Austin, TX (Drops Aug 28/Gitcha Records/36:05). There’s a cross-section of styles, […]
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Laurelyn Dossett – How Many Moons I’ve always felt the most gifted singers are the ones blessed with unique voices filled with the individual’s personality, expressiveness, & charm. Alison Krauss, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Iris De Ment, Janis Joplin, Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris, among others, have this quality. You can hear it when you […]
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Mama’s Broke – Reunion This is a quietly rural, prairie-expansive Americana spring rain collection of tunes sung with a landscape of harmony. The picking has clarity & is played with assurance & confidence. While not quite The McGarrigle Sisters (yet), the duo has warmth & skill that’s evident in each piece they perform. It would […]
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Leslie Waugh – Night Bloom With its folk-country overtones, this new album finds Leslie Waugh splashing in the delightful pop-country traditions of mid-60s country-pop artists. Diane Renay (“Navy Blue”) & Merilee Rush (“Angel of the Morning”). Her opening tune “Black Cadillac” has that kind of trajectory, though her voice is more magical, like the late […]
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Dustin Arbuckle & The Damnations – Fight Like the Devil or Run Like Hell If Tom Waits tossed together a sweet heat of bottled-up blues, it would sound something like Dustin Arbuckle (lead vocal/harmonica). “Heaven Forbid” (I would meet you in hell). What a percolating line to open an album with. The song includes some […]
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Section House – New Horse & Buggy The Grateful Dead were not a bluegrass outfit, but their leader Jerry Garcia was an aficionado of the music. First listen to Section House’s instrumental (“In Rut”) makes me think of Garcia when he played with the likes of David Grisman & Old & In the Way. It […]
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Humbird provides an edgeless frame for asking the big questions, The Jayhawks time travel (or do they?), we have a killer from Miko Marks, an excellent rumbler from Riley Downing, and some emotion-facing elevation from (individually) Ruthie Foster, Rhiannon Giddens, and Mary Gauthier. It’s Fresh Cuts, let’s goooooo!
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Born January 19, 1946, Dolly Parton was 80 years old. Not that years or linear time seem the right measure when talking about her. When I texted my friend (and former No Depression editor) Stacy Chandler, she replied, “I really thought Dolly was exempt from this.” Didn&
Whether through his work with the New Orleans-based music collective The Deslondes, or his numerous collaborations with other performers, or his first solo album a few years back, some probably recognize the name Riley Downing.
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Moving on tends to hurt. Even if it’s good; even when it’s necessary. From that inescapable ache Paige Anderson begins Two Runner’s latest album, Porchlight: “How many times have you left / A life you’ve always known?” The answer hangs in