Where Something About the Sun Came From, and Why Noel Herrity Writes Characters
A Dublin Songwriter Whose Lyrics Come First and Whose Subjects Are Real People The recording is titled Something about the Sun, and the description...
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The Legendary Ten Seconds: Where the Mellotron Jokes Came From
Twelve Offcuts From a Torquay Folk-Rock Project That Usually Sings About Richard III The first track on The Rejects of Lord Zarquon is called...
Ted Stanley and Where Eternal Thread Came From, Four Revisits Later
The British Writer Has Re-Recorded Four of His Own Songs and Counting Look down Ted Stanley‘s catalogue and a word keeps appearing in brackets....
Sierra Ferrell Booked a Year of Touring Without a New Album to Sell
Sierra Ferrell performing at MerleFest in 2021. The usual reason to book a year of touring is that there is a record to sell....
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...
Punch Brothers Made a Whole Album Without Chris Thile Singing
Punch Brothers performing at Bumbershoot in 2015, before Brittany Haas joined the band. Chris Thile has one of the most recognisable voices in American...
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Named an Album After Their Two New Members
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys performing at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2023. Most bands name an album after a song on it. The Po’...
Billy Strings Hired T Bone Burnett and Called In His Heroes
Billy Strings was raised on Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs and Del McCoury records, handed to him by his stepfather. Del...
Rhiannon Giddens Built a Band From Louisiana, the Congo and Italy
Rhiannon Giddens has spent twenty years arguing that American music was made by people from everywhere. Her new album is that argument assembled as...
Maybe Magic by Ryan Sweezey and a Decade of Unfinished Songs: The Long Version 
Where Deep Blue Sea Came From: Kadi Beth and a Mayday Call Over Dark Water 
Backyard Getaway by Emily Fraser, a Pop-Country Escape: The Long Version 
Why New Orleans Blues Rock Survived the Move to Switzerland on Rising by Jeb Rault