She’ll Take You There
RORY BLOCK returns in celebration of "power women of song" on AIN'T NOBODY WORRIED--a thoroughly captivating outpouring of…
Category: Spotlight Album
Deep Roots Magazine’s Spotlight Album
Wherein Murph Lights Out for the Horizon, Yet Again
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, collaborating with son RYAN MURPHEY, rises to every challenge he sets for himself on ROAD…
Always More Love to Be Had
The TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS are back with their third album, DOUBLE DOWN ON A BAD THING, with well-wrought songs,…
Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing
Herein a dozen smokey, sensuous and often ambivalent discourses on love and passion delivered with the breathy tenderness…
The Mad Scientist Deep in Experimentation
'Good, not great,' says our DHRISTOPHER WALSH in in his deep dive into Sir Paul McCartney's McCARTNEY III,…
To Shine Is Why You Came
VALERIE JUNE seems to have stepped out of some sort of enchanted forest, spreading powerfully delivered but gentle-spirited…
Worthy of It All
Twelve Grammy Awards and 23 GMA Awards into her towering career, CECE WINANS returns with her first non-holiday…
A Fresh Perspective on the ‘African Mahler’
CATALYST QUARTET, a young American ensemble, explores the chamber music of SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, works whose sophistication belies their…
Considering Historical Conflict & Conflicted History
JASON RINGENBERG offers a reckoning with history on his 18th solo album, RHINESTONED, featuring the Freedom Riders, Crazy…
Bluegrass Speaks to The Moment
A bluegrass trifecta: three new albums, by DALE ANN BRADLEY, THE DILLARDS and PHIL LEADBETTER AND THE ALL…