AMERICANA MUSIC

A week with new VNE is a good week in my books. We are less than a month away from Vincent Neil Emerson blessing us with a brand-new record. Last month, he announced that he was gearing up to share Blue Stars, a collection of songs he wrote: “on front porches, in hotel rooms, and underneath trees.” Slated for an April 17 release via La Honda Records, after penning these tunes, he took them to Music City. He recorded the […]

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Third times the charm, right? Well, it certainly seems that way for The Wilson Springs Hotel. The Richmond, Virginia-based bluegrass and indie-folk outfit just dropped their third record, and it’s their best project yet. The band’s first two records – 2021’s self-titled The Wilson Springs Hotel and 2023’s Old Thoughts and Memories – are full of impressive lyricism, but more importantly, boast a unique string-fueled rock and roll sound that resembles the dynamic nature of the band’s high-energy live performances. Generally […]

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Live Forever is a live album, but it also feels like a check-in from the road, a way of hearing Hurray For The Riff Raff’s songs in a shared space. Alynda Segarra has long written with one foot in folk tradition and the other in a tougher, more restless world, where memory, loss, survival, and movement blur together. That makes Car Wheels on a Gravel Road a useful earlier marker, not because the records sound alike in every respect, but because Lucinda Williams showed how roots music could carry intimate detail, regional texture, and emotional wear without losing its bite.