Humbird: Pharmakon
Not everyone likes to be challenged by their music of choice. Some are content to put an album or playlist on and let it run its course as a musical … Read More
Inside the Making and the Movement of the Highwomen
When Newport Folk Festival’s executive director Jay Sweet addressed the fans gathered at the Quad Stage at 5:35 pm on July 26 of this year, he said, “You’re the first … Read More
Jonah Tolchin: Fires for the Cold
Watching talented young musicians get off to a great start then continue to grow into the truest versions of themselves is a wonderful thing. Some emerge fairly fully formed, while … Read More
Shawn Colvin: Steady On (acoustic)
Even amidst so many albums that we love, there are a few in each person’s life that save us, soothe us, heal us, and hold us again and again for … Read More
Ana Egge: Is It the Kiss
Great songs — honest songs — don’t only give us a lens through which we can see their writers; they give us a look inside ourselves. They connect us to … Read More
Spirit Family Reunion: Ride Free
String bands, very often, are far more concerned with their picking and plucking than they are with their writing and singing. That’s a mood in and of itself, it seems. … Read More
Eilen Jewell: G*
Folk music is just that… music for, by, and of folks. It tells the stories of a people in both real time and hindsight, so that we might remember the … Read More
Jamestown Revival: San Isabel
As the world races through the present toward a future fueled by technological advances that will, allegedly, make our lives simpler, some people are taking the opposite tack, eschewing technology … Read More