Country and Americana

I really like 'Preaching to the Choir.' It is mainstream pop in flavor and color, but different and refreshing.

There's a feeling of fine control you get when you listen to a Kim Richey album. Her songs dig outward in two directions from country/americana, into both folk and pop. And her silvery vocals, burnished with a constant, cool vibrato, lack twangy affectation, sounding almost weirdly non-manipulative – to paradoxically emotional effect.

The combination of syrupy, swampy blues and superbly talented musicians gives the music an irresistible tang.

The misery factor is contagious, leading the listener down into the abyss of calamitous unhappiness.

'Little Boat' is a good album. Mathur’s voice is at its best when darkly inflected with down and dirty tones.

'Green' delivers eloquent lyrics, along with generous doses of subliminal sonic flashes, making it one of the better folk-pop albums I’ve heard in quite some time.

This is the second part of my interview with Eric Anders, whose anti-Trump release, 'Eleven Nine,' piqued my interest to find out his motivation and songwriting process behind this concept record.

I recently reviewed Eric Anders’ latest album, called 'Eleven Nine,' which is an anti-Trump concept album. Intrigued by the sentiments expressed in the lyrics of the album, I decided to interview Eric. I wanted to know more about his motivation for the album, as well as his songwriting process.

Firmly established as a talent to be reckoned with, Viele won two New England Music Awards in 2016, for Album of the Year and Male Performer of the Year. 'Howl' called his shows 'transcendent,' with music that 'will rattle your bones and penetrate to the core.'

Crazy fun with a Texas drawl highlighted the second night of Little Big Town’s The Breakers Tour, on February 9, at Austin’s Irwin Center on the University of Texas campus.