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On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, the indispensable Yep Roc imprint has restored to the marketplace a remastered version of Iris DeMent's sole major label release, The Way I Should. It should be…it should be a big hairy deal.
Just listen.
If nothing else, listen to “There's a Wall in Washington,” but we'll come back to that.
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From the start of Andrew Sa’s American Rough, it’s impossible not to be pulled in.
With the album’s opening number and title track, a curtain of balmy keys, sinewy bass, and throbbing horns parts to reveal an apparition: “He’s mean handsome / Can’t hardly be decent together / He’s American rough / Eatin’ the heart out of this room…”
This enticing fi...
In 2024 Jesper Lindell and his band, The Brunnsvik Sounds, trekked from Sweden to the U.S. to record covers of classic American soul music. Over four action-packed days, they visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama and Royal Studios in Memphis. The result was a pair of exhilarating nine-track albums, both running about a half-hour, that do the performers proud.
Over a decade removed from leaving his native Philadelphia for Music City, Devon Gilfillian’s journey comes full circle as he cultivates his very own Nashville Sound on his latest album, Time Will Tell.
Over its 11 tracks the album is as grounded as it is exploratory, navigating through soundscapes that shift from neo-soul to R&B, funk, rock ‘n roll and eve...
In some ways, Eric D. Johnson's career has been an exercise in patience. His debut album as Fruit Bats — a name he didn't expect to stick — came out 25 years ago. And while he saw some crossover success with his 2003 single