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If you think life is easy and uncomplicated, you need to listen to Ricky Kemery’s Painted Sky. The singer/songwriter’s second album is an ambitious testimony to the difficulties of making […]

Perhaps the most intriguing thing about Allan Craig Miller’s worldwide release of Between Saturday and Sunday is that it’s a worldwide release. Miller, a Huntington native, is just about as […]

One of the things that’s fun about the End Times Spasm Band – aside from their simple tendency to have fun, of course – is the band’s ability to find […]

Red Arrow don’t like to be pigeonholed in terms of the genre of music they play, so I’m not going to do so. But I’m also not going to resort […]

If no one had come up with the genre-binding concept of Americana, we’d be hard pressed to argue that artists like Kacey Musgraves and the Decembrists make similar music. As […]

Map to the Fire is Sunny Taylor’s first full-length album of new music since 2007’s Lock the Door and Leave, and it’s only her fourth full-length album since her debut, […]

If you don’t know much about country music, you might think that it’s an inhospitable place for women. With all the talk of traditional values and machismo, you might think […]

After quite a few years off from recording – 2007’s Hard Pill to Swallow was his last album of originals – Bill Lupkin is back with this collection of tunes […]

I remember 1998 like it was yesterday, and I remember how I enthusiastic I was back then about the future of Americana. Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road […]