Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn
Writers working through personal upheaval often go inward and narrow. Going outward to history instead is a harder and less common move.
Blues
Selwyn Birchwood Produced Himself and Wrote a Blues About the Algorithm
Selwyn Birchwood performing. Blues albums do not usually open with dial-up modem static. On Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, released 27 March through Alligator Records,...
Lil’ Ed Made His First Album in Ten Years With the Same Three Men
Lil’ Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials at the Ottawa Bluesfest in 2008. Ten years is a long gap between albums for a working...
Keb’ Mo’ Answered a Hard Year With One Guitar and a Gospel Choir
Keb’ Mo’ performing with a resonator guitar. Thirty years into a career built on warm, band-backed records, Keb’ Mo’ has made the album with...
Buddy Guy Won a Ninth Grammy for an Album He Made at Eighty-Nine
Buddy Guy performing live. Buddy Guy released Ain’t Done With the Blues on his eighty-ninth birthday and spent the following February collecting a Grammy...
Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn 
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years 
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster 
Turnpike Troubadours Covered Robert Earl Keen With Sierra Hull