“Liv Greene isn’t running from herself anymore. She’s pried herself open and let real longing, frustration, and love break free. Deep Feeler, her sophomore album, is a reckoning with reality, a vulnerable snapshot of hard-won self-acceptance. It’s feminine, queer, and defiant. It also heralds the arrival of Greene as a powerful new voice who joins the songwriting tradition of Emmylou, Patty, Gillian, and Lucinda – in her own way. Greene self-produced and recorded Deep Feeler live to tape in Nashville’s Woodland Sound Studios, with collaborator Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, O Brother Where Art Thou) and a dreamy band of friends including Sarah Jarosz, Dom Billett, Elise Leavy, and Christian Sedelmeyer. The resulting collection of beautiful melodies and folk-rooted storytelling is a bold achievement: a piece of art that matters culturally, musically, and personally.” [bandcamp]
“Old-school country, pop and R&B effortlessly blend together on Lost in a Dream , the stupendous sophomore album from Cassandra Lewis, in such a way that…wow. Just wow. At their best, the songs sound like long-lost tracks recovered from the vaults of American Sound Studio in Memphis or the FAME Studios and/or Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Ala. At their worst, which isn’t often, they are eminently listenable. Yet, while one will hear the echoes of an array of classic sides and singers throughout, what one hears most is Lewis’s own soul.” ~Jeff Gimmell [The Old Grey Cat]
Eliza Hardy Jones and her partner went through hell and back trying to have a baby.
The Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist has played in Iron & Wine, Grace Potter and The War on Drugs, but on her latest solo effort, Jones explores the yearslong journey — full of loss and grief — she went through to become a parent.
“I think I turned to recording and songwriting as a way to help myself navigate out of that,” Jones says of the music that eventually became Pickpocket.
~Stephen Kallao / Miguel Perez [NPR]
“With Camilla, Herring has created her most profound album yet, a collection of ten complex, modern, tradition-influenced compositions about love and hate and everything in between. Since her debut in 2001, Herring has gained a devoted following and has been embraced by tastemakers like NPR, Oxford American and A Prairie Home Companion. Herring has been compared to Lucinda Williams (Austin American Statesman), Joan Baez (Asheville Citizen-Times) and Steve Earle (Paste Magazine). Although the comparisons are apt, Herring has developed her own signature sounds that comes to full manifestation on Camilla, a career-defining record. “I feel braver on this album, and I feel it represents me wholly,” she says.” [bandcamp]
