What do you get when you put a steel pannist in a room with a saxophone player? Or with an accordion player? Or with a rapper, a hammered dulcimer player,
North Carolina band Time Sawyer is having a whole lot of fun, and it shows on their seventh studio album, Mountain Howdy (out 9/13). The synergy between the five members is palpable,
In Tales of America, his stunning full-length debut album, J.S. Ondara holds a mirror to the promise of his adopted country. His voice, at the same time resonant and fragile,
25-year-old North Carolina songwriter Dane Page grew up wanting to be a lead guitarist. He had no interest in singing or writing songs until about halfway through college when he
Gregory Alan Isakov’s fourth full-length studio album might be a very different album if he wasn’t also a full-time farmer. On his Colorado farm he grows salad greens for chefs,
On PILLAR composer and steel pannist Jonathan Scales mines his emotional landscape to create eight songs that are as honest and evocative as they are intricate and complex. With his
Edges Run, Mipso’s fourth full-length album, takes the North Carolina band far from their roots, both geographically and sonically. The quartet (Joseph Terrell on guitar, Jacob Sharp on mandolin, Wood Robinson
What do you get when you take a string band and move them into a log cabin in Kentucky for a week and a half to record an album? Probably
In their self-produced first full-length album, Straw in the Wind, Southern rockers The Steel Woods employ dark Biblical and rural imagery to set the scene for battles between good and
Run Skeleton Run, David Childers’ sixth solo album (Ramseur Records, March 5th), starts off with the title track, a raucous warning to a discontented skeleton that refuses to rest in