Debut album rests compelling lyrics on a bed of layered sound. ‘What is Left of Me’ is the fascinating debut album from Wastelander, the nom de chanson of Cooper Formant, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, […]
John Grant with Richard Hawley and his band (on guitar and lap steel Shez Sheridan, master of keyboards John Trier, Dean Beresford on drums and on bass Colin Elliot), brought their tribute to Patsy Cline to […]
With ‘Orange Blossom Child,’ Florida’s Van Plating comes up with her most mature album yet. If you have what ‘Orange Blossom Child,’ the title of Van Plating’s new album refers to, you would have to know about […]
Impressive alt-country telling of a mother’s death and the subsequent healing. ‘Thin Places’ is an unusual album in that it is nearly all concerned with one event, the death of Jason Hawk Harris’ mother, and its […]
The term “Great American Novel” ™ (or GAN) was coined in 1868 by the novelist John William DeForest. In Paperback Riders we‘ve covered novels from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ published in 1852 to 2010’s ‘Lean On Pete’ […]
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