As if painting a lush panorama of the Sequoia National Forest, Sárah Rogo’s fluid touches and tones on the guitar are like subtle brush strokes of warm hues, at once evoking the perils and potential of the natural world. The singer-songwriter’s new album Sunfall, in particular, is conceptualized as an ode to the woods at [...]
Blues Music Award winner, multi-instrumentalist and composer Gaye Adegbalola has long been celebrated for blues songs filled with scathing social commentary dressed in humor. Her album addressing LGBTQ issues, Gaye Without Shame, was nominated for a BMA; and her children’s CD, Blues in All Flavors, won the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Gaye fighting the good [...]
Throughout her career, internationally renowned guitarist Ana Popovic has found different ways to highlight themes of female empowerment – everything from juggle-struggles as a working mom to challenging and confronting male dominance, to acknowledging the men who actually support women in these efforts. Notably, she was the only female guitarist to be included in the [...]
Singer-songwriter Tony Holiday is following up 2020’s Soul Service with a strong sophomore effort, Motel Mississippi. A collaboration between Holiday, guitarist/songwriter A.J. Fullerton, and guitarist/producer Dave Gross (who shared production duties with Fullerton), the album is at once Delta blues, Memphis soul, North Mississippi hill country, and juke joint stomper. It is only reasonable that [...]
Asheville, NC folk and roots artist Krista Shows — in conjunction with a first-time vinyl release of her debut, Prone to Wander — is releasing an EP of covers entitled Quarantine Covers. A Bandcamp pre-order for her debut album on vinyl, at this time, will include a Bandcamp code (good) for Quarantine Covers. Today sees the exclusive [...]
Americana blues band Rosedale Junction preserves the idea of the album format and what it represents — a time when you could drop a needle on an LP and listen from beginning to end. Their debut album, Stompin’ On The Front Porch, harks back to how blues started. “With folks gathered around the front porch [...]