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...
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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...
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...
Pieta Brown Made Her Ninth Album With Two Bon Iver Alumni
Pieta Brown performing with Bo Ramsey. The two people who produced Dreamin’ Of with Pieta Brown are better known for a different kind of...
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’...
Twenty Years of Rejected Songs Became Cory Branan’s Seventh Album
Cory Branan performing in Brooklyn. Most songwriters keep a folder of songs that did not make the record. Cory Branan kept his for two...
Mike Campbell Called Ray Wylie Hubbard After Ringo Starr Brought Him Up
Ray Wylie Hubbard at the Austin Music Awards. The last two songs on Reel 2 Reel 4 Real were recorded in a studio off...
Elizabeth Cook Wrote the Manhattan Project Into a Country Album
Elizabeth Cook performing. Most country records about American history reach for the Civil War or the Dust Bowl. Great Television reaches for the Manhattan...
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...
Charley Crockett Built a Country Album Like a Film Score
Twenty tracks, forty-five minutes, and six of them shorter than a minute. Charley Crockett’s sixteenth album is sequenced the way a film is scored,...
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