Articles by Emily Zimmerman
Ruthie Foster
Joy Comes Back
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2017
If Joy Comes Back, the latest album by veteran folk-blues performer Ruthie Foster, was an old school cassette tape, it would probably be le...
Bridget Kearney
Won't Let You Down
PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2017
Won't Let You Down may be Bridget Kearney's debut album, but she's no newbie; she's the brilliant bassist and frequent songwriter for Bosto...
Ha Ha Tonka
Heart-Shaped Mountain
PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2017
Heart-Shaped Mountain is all about perspective. From the lowest lows of album opener "Race to the Bottom" to the dizzying perch of "Height...
Valerie June
The Order of Time
PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2017
Tennessee singer-songwriter Valerie June's second full-length album is steeped in old-time country and blues. On opening track "Long Lonely...
Scott H. Biram
The Bad Testament
PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2017
There's an antediluvian joke about the clichéd subjects of popular roots music, in which a country record is played in reverse: the singer...
Tall Tall Trees
Freedays
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2017
Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees is a banjo player who excels at traditional forms but is not tied to them. Unlike previous releases under th...
Alejandra Ribera Danced Her Way to Inspiration on New Album 'This Island'
PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2017
There's a deep physicality, a corporeality to Alejandra Ribera's new album, This Island, out now on Pheromone. It marks a change for the To...
Sallie Ford
Soul Sick
PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2017
Sallie Ford's Soul Sick is a twangy-soul-power pop song cycle about getting over loss and depression. The production and arrangement is gor...
