Zach Top’s career feels like it’s at a crossroads. Smartly, Zach Top has released two new songs in hopes of re-igniting some of that initial momentum behind him. And generally speaking, they feel like they could be valuable in that pursuit.
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Wild Pink Still Coming Down Wild Pink’s 2022 album, ILYSM, was one of my favorite records of that year. Songwriter John Ross’s details of his (successful) cancer treatments struck nerves that I hadn’t realized were still raw from my own all-too-similar health problems from five years earlier. Since that album (and the undoubtedly tough press […]
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New William Prince ft. Nathaniel Rateliff, Jess Williamson’s steel-guitar gilded longing-bomb, an absolutely beautiful song from Rising Appalachia; the title track from Charlie Parr’s upcoming folk opera concept album about the lives of Upper Midwesterners; a Loudon Wainwright III summer cover from The Head and the Heart – featuring the ever-expanding Scott McMicken from Dr. Dog — and more!
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Jimmy Reed – At Carnegie Hall Wonderful LP cover for this showcase captures the feel of this 1961 set, recorded live. Still, it also includes some studio recreations of the Carnegie Hall performance, along with additional recordings. Probably just some refreshing & tweaking to make a commercial blues album coalesce. No sin there. “Bright Lights, […]
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The FreshGrass Foundation, the 501(c)(3) organization that publishes No Depression, announced the FreshGrass Porchside Jubilee, taking place at the Porches Inn in North Adams, Massachusetts on October 3. Bluegrass groups Della Mae and East Nash Grass co-headline the half-day event with support by Mafer Bandola and
Announcing the Inaugural Folk Alley Cover Contest winner Natalie Rae Padilla and runner-up Ethan Robbins! Congratulations!
Thank you to everyone who entered – the talent on display was unreal and we are so grateful to all of you – and the band – for spending the summer with us celebrating 20 years of one of our favorite records.
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Kimmi Bitter is country music’s throwback honky tonk sweetheart with a voice like Patsy Cline, and a style like The Ventures. She doubles down on the mod/Countrypolitan/surf/’60s sound that’s so succulent to the ear.
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Yes, things are bad these days. While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the unending tide of awful news, the folks who speak out against despair and inequality can help raise the spirits. Chris Pierce is one. More than two decades into a career grounded in plainspoken folk-