So you’re still jamming to 2015’s self-titled “Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats.” So you’re still impressed how well Missouri-born Rateliff dances in cowboy boots. So you’re looking forward to Rateliff’s third solo album (it’s only been seven years since the last solo LP). Drop those expectations.Read More →
“Holy bluegrass!” Yes, that is our first impression when we clicked play on Billy Strings’ fourth studio album.Read More →
For our next installment of our podcast, and the last interview of the year, we followed Sunny War to the Columbus Theatre in Providence after the release of her dark pop album “Shell of a Girl.”Read More →
Music is magical. We reread these words from our 2008 article in the Newport Mercury, “A Hard Rain Fell” – our first time at the Newport Folk Fest. Something rings short of them these days, some sort of cynicism vibrates now, perhaps a dissonance between that time and our current era.Read More →