Kaia Kater - Nine Pin

Kaia Kater isn't just an excellent banjo player. She's a force to be reckoned with. When I started writing about music almost f...

Caitlin Canty - Reckless Skyline

Caitlin Canty hails from small-town Vermont, but honed her craft in New York City. She is a consummate songwriter who has collaborated...

Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Things that We Are

After the orchestral recording Songs from the Movie in early 2014, Mary Chapin Carpente...

Tom Russell - The Rose Of Roscrae

(Yes, folk and country, Ireland and USA. Jasmine) Tom Russell 's The Rose of...

Lori McKenna - Wreck You

Fresh off a Grammy win for "Girl Crush," the country smash she co-wrote for ...

Dietrich Strause's third album, 'How Cruel That Hunger Binds'

Strause releases his third album and heads out on U.S. Canadian and UK dates this fall! Dietrich Strause's third album, 'How Cr...

The Lone Bellow - Then Came The Morning

Given the enthusiasm that the Lone Bellow 's self-titled 2013 debut generated, they...

Kimmie Rhodes - Cowgirl Boudoir

T hirty-four years on since Kimmie Rhodes’ debut album, the Lubbock-raised songster’s maintained a pretty flawless output, to whic...

Michaela Anne – Bright Lights and The Fame

When I first saw Michaela Anne at a South by Southwest showcase, she was hard not to miss, despite standing five feet if she was wearing ...

Dale Ann Bradley - Pocket Full of Keys

My first taste for most of the music on this CD was sampled in person at the Station Inn in Nashville at Dale Ann Bradley’s CD release ...

The Curst Sons

The Curst Sons have been playing their powerful stripped back take on early American traditional music since 1998.  Performing mainly origin...

Sammy Kershaw - The Blues Got Me

Sammy Kershaw is returning to his Louisiana roots: In May, the country singer will release The Blues Got Me, a blues album that he’s been...

A statement from Okkervil River’s Will Sheff on the new album Away.

The new Okkervil River album is called Away. I didn’t plan to make it and initially wasn’t sure if it was going to be an Okkervil River ...

Doolin by Doolin

Irish music with a French touch! Produced by John Doyle and featuring special guests Taron Benson, Alison Brown, Ashley Davis, Jerry Dou...

The Winding Stream - The Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music

Rocker-turned-documentarian Beth Harrington (“Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly”) celebrates the Carter and Cash family and i...

Courtney Marie Andrews

There’s a new generation of women burning down the Nashville music industry. Powerful voices like Margo Price and Nikki Lane have been rewri...

Anne Sumner and Rob Anderson to release new album "out along the bend"

Anne Sumner and Rob Anderson formed a partnership in early 2016. Both were regulars on the London open mic circuit, when a chance experim...

Butch Walker - Afraid Of Ghosts

Butch Walker has been toiling away somewhere just outside the spotlight of rock ...

Tyller Gummersall – Long Ride Home

​Hailing from Colorado, singer-songwriter Tyller Gummersall recently released his fourth album, Long Ride Home. The album, which was rec...

John Moreland - High On Tulsa Heat

The lane is wide open for the would-be country revivalist. As the mainstream product increasingly incorporates new sounds and atti...

Harvest Thieves – Rival

The Austin-music scene is full of a lot of different country and Americana groups, some good and some bad. And I can say with certainty ...

Patty Griffin - Servant Of Love

Patty Griffin has always been an artist fearlessly, eagerly willing to follow her mu...

Speedbuggy USA – South of Bakersfield

Speedbuggy USA describe themselves as ‘Country Punk’, a moniker that is more often than not country-rock (the term cow-punk is mentione...

The Honeycutters - Me Oh My

The Honeycutters are a roots country band from Asheville, North Carolina. Tal Taylor plays the mandolin, Rick Cooper the bass, Josh...

Sunny Ozell – Take It With Me

Following her move to New York in 2004, Sunny Ozell has spent many years impressing audiences in the Big Apple’s clubs. 11 years on and...

Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn - Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

According to Béla Fleck , he and his wife and fellow banjo player Abigail Washburn beg...