Album Reviews
Buxton “A Family Light”
Raw offering of acoustic indie-folk / Americana from Texas. Buxton are an indie folk band based out of Houston, Texas, with twenty years and five albums behind them. ‘A Family Light’ is one of those albums, […]
Month: October 2023
Tracks
Morsel “Four Wheels” – heading down the road with no plan
‘Four Wheels‘ is the third single from ‘On A Bee Line‘, the second album from Denver based rootsy jam-band Morsel, who merge the acoustic and the electric on this pacey paean to escaping at pace down […]
Videos
Video: JJ Shiplett “Already There”
The restless rhythms of ‘Already There’ by JJ Shiplett are genuinely compelling. Shiplett’s warm, lived-in voice is perfect for a song that takes us through life’s journey and he delivers his heartwarming words with soul: “I […]
Reviews
Bluegrass Briefs –The Cleverlys, Nora Brown, Andy Lowe, East Nash Grass, Buster Sledge, Jim Lauderdale
The best Americana albums are often a blend of a variety of roots music styles, and sometimes draw in influences from well beyond our little corner of the musical forest. And Bluegrass as we’ve seen in […]
Features
For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “Ripple”
It is sometimes wrongly assumed that the Grateful Dead’s studio records were mere templates for the live versions of the songs, and while this is certainly true for certain songs, this doesn’t mean they couldn’t capture […]