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Amy Speace – There Used To Be Horses Here

Thursday, April 15, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

We should all be thankful musicians find writing songs to be cathartic. Amy Speace has taken inspiration from the first birthday of her son, and the passing of her father, to deliver an emotional, passionate new record. Entitled There Used To Be Horses Here, it’s a natural fit for vinyl with two pretty distinct parts […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Folk Tagged With: Amy Speace

Stephen Flatt – Cumberland Bones

Thursday, April 08, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

They say alt-country is country music played with a punk aesthetic. Stephen Flatt has a slightly different idea; it’s southern rock with a bluegrass aesthetic. On his latest album, Cumberland Bones, Flatt leads with the Southern rock stories and anthemic, pump-your-fist sound. The bluegrass comes in via him recording this record not with a longstanding […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Reviews, Rock Tagged With: Stephen Flatt

Eli West – Tapered Point Of Stone

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

For much of the country, spring is upon us. Not just because of the date on the calendar, but the warmth of the sun on increasingly longer days, the gentle breeze bearing the scent of blooms (and pollen!), and at least where I grew up the sudden change of Mother Nature’s heart with the arrival […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Bluegrass Tagged With: Eli West

Rylan Brooks – If Wishes Were Horses

Thursday, March 18, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

Most of us have done a cross country road trip at least once, and you don’t forget it. Especially if it included a long stretch between the Rockies and the Mississippi, where time and distance create a kind of elasticity to your plan. Doing those trips over and over and over became the rehearsal space […]

Filed Under: Country, Reviews, Roots Tagged With: Rylan Brooks

Ervin Stellar – Nothing To Prove

Thursday, March 11, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

I love it when an artist takes someone else’s well-known song and so transforms the piece that they start to own it more than the original artist or songwriter. Ervin Stellar, the stage name of Andrew Jordan, does that on his new EP with Shanty, the Jonathan Edwards classic. Stellar injects such a nonchalant tempo […]

Filed Under: Americana, Roots Tagged With: Ervin Stellar

Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno

Thursday, March 11, 2021 By Shawn Underwood Leave a Comment

Three years ago in a cramped hotel room during Folk Alliance, at the advice of friends, I first heard a barely-out-of-high-school songstress, Vivian Leva, and her musical partner, Riley Calcagno. Leva had just released her debut album of Appalachian style folk and country songs. Belying her tender age, Leva’s soulful vocal delivery laid bare the […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Country, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: Riley Calcagno, Vivian

Lydia Luce – Dark River

Thursday, March 04, 2021 By Shawn Underwood

Let me just start by saying that if you’re in the mood for something twangy, the new record from Nashville’s Lydia Luce is not going to scratch that itch. Luce is an in-demand studio musician around Nashville for her ability on a variety of stringed instruments, so she knows twang. But Dark River draws mostly […]

Filed Under: Avant Garde, Folk, Indie, Reviews Tagged With: Lydia Luce

Chris Roberts – Red Feather

Thursday, February 25, 2021 By Shawn Underwood

Life is unpredictable. That’s maybe the lesson learned from Austin native, now Colorado resident Chris Roberts. Unlike many musicians that throw away other opportunities to make music, Roberts’ success as a hat maker drove him to concentrate more on the music, perhaps as a creative counterbalance to the rigors of being a successful entrepreneur. His […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Outlaw Country, Rock Tagged With: Chris Roberts

Geoff Bradford – Texas Psychedelic

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 By Shawn Underwood

Now Austin based, Geoff Bradford grew up in New York City before living in locales as different as France and Venezuela. That diversity no doubt influenced his musical tastes, as evidenced in his new EP, Texas Psychedelic. If there’s a musical theme that runs through the record, I’d have to say it’s 70’s pop, with […]

Filed Under: Pop, Rock Tagged With: Geoff Bradford

Folk Alliance Int’l – Folk Unlocked Preview

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 By Shawn Underwood

For most of the last several years I’ve flown back east for what I consider to be the most under-appreciated music festival in the country; the annual Folk Alliance International conference. FAI does a tremendous amount of good for musicians, and the conference itself has many seminars targeted to beginners, long-time musicians and industry professionals. […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Folk Alliance, Reviews, Roots Tagged With: Folk Alliance

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