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Caitlin Cannon – Love Addict

Thursday, May 22, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

Some things sound better in retrospective. For instance, if everyone who owns a Ramones t-shirt today had actually bought a Ramones record back in the day, they’d make Taylor Swift’s music sales seem like pocket change. I have to profess that perspective on countrypolitan music. As a typical, limited viewpoint teenager growing up in rural […]

Filed Under: Country Tagged With: Caitlin Cannon

The Lowtimers – Cracks

Thursday, May 15, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

One of the recurring characters throughout the history of civilization is the traveling bard. Telling stories, singing songs, and just generally passing along information, the bard was the original influencer, millennia before social networks. Portland’s Mark Tegio and Santa Cruz’s Austin Smith spent a decade modeling that troubadour lifestyle up and down the west coast, […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk Tagged With: The Lowtimers

Big Love Car Wash Premiere – 21st Century Telegraph

Thursday, May 08, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

I guess you could call Austin musicians Taylor Turner and Everett Wren serial band members. Taylor has been in more bands than he can remember; 15 during his college years alone. In addition to his solo projects, Wren has played with the Arkansas Youth Orchestra and formed groups Wagon, Lost & Nameless, and Chalkboard Poets. […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: Big Love Car Wash

I’m With Her – Wild And Clear And Blue

Wednesday, May 07, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan met each other when Jarosz was still in her early teens, and the other two barely in their twenties. By 2014 they were singing together in no less a venue than Telluride’s bluegrass festival. In 2018 they released an album, See You Around, and received a collective Grammy […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Folk, Reviews, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: I'm With Her

True North Duo – Time And Materials

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

Folk music has, I think, always had a DIY aesthetic. You strum your guitar, sing into the microphone (if available), and there you have it. Simple enough that more than a few artists have chosen to tour by bicycle. Oregon-based couple Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel have raised that quite a few notches on their […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: True North Duo

Mason Via – Mason Via

Thursday, April 24, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

They say you can’t go home again, but that’s really about the mistaken idea nothing will have changed. What I do think is true, especially as you get older, is there’s something comforting and centering about returning to your roots for a visit. After a stint with Old Crow Medicine Show and recording with the […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Mason Via

Graham Sharp – How Did We Do It

Thursday, April 24, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

Wishes do come true. Four years ago I wrote about the debut solo album from Steep Canyon Rangers’ banjoist and frequent lead singer, Graham Sharp. I finished the post expressing a hope that, as much as I like the Rangers, the record wouldn’t be his last solo effort. Well, just out is another release from […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Reviews Tagged With: Graham Sharp

Marina Rocks – S.O.S. Texas

Thursday, April 17, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Or in the case of Houstonian Marina Rocks; when in Texas, be a Texan. The Austin-born guitarist/singer/songwriter has long embraced the musical styles she heard around her, and in the process developed a unique sound that nonetheless ties her to the Lone Star State. So it was […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Rock, Roots Tagged With: Marina Rocks

Grey DeLisle – The Grey Album

Thursday, April 10, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

Back in the 60’s Nashville country music was feeling the pressure from honky-tonk hits coming out of Bakersfield, and from the blues-rock edge the Brits were putting on pop. So the A-list producers decided to replace the fiddle and steel guitar with orchestra strings and the nasally vocals with polished choruses. The resultant sound became […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Grey DeLisle

Tony Kamel – We’re All Gonna Live

Thursday, April 03, 2025 By Shawn Underwood

You’ve all heard the saying about death and taxes. Many a songwriter has written a story about someone’s journey to make the most of life given the inevitable end. Grammy-nominated Austin musician (and former front man for Wood & Wire) Tony Kamel took that a few steps further and centered his new album, We’re All […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, Roots Tagged With: Tony Kamel

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