Tag Archives: Americana

If you’re a fan of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, this is an album you definitely want to own.

'Falling Star' is authentic country twang with guts.

'Tipping My Hat to Leonard' is intensely intimate, authentic, and elegantly simple.

This NYC duo's distinctive sound encompasses folk, Americana, world music, New Orleans jazz, Gullah Geechee rhythms and scat singing, and what I call good old hoedown music.

As it stands, 'Campfire Party' oozes mediocrity and offers little to recommend.

Seneko's music is gently steeped in a concoction of varied flavors. The end result is pretty darn good.

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 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.