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 Boston...

If Joy Comes Back, the latest album by veteran folk-blues performer Ruthie Foster, was an old school cassette tape, it would probably be lef...

Tennessee singer-songwriter Valerie June's second full-length album is steeped in old-time country and blues. On opening track "Long Lonely...

Heart-Shaped Mountain is all about perspective. From the lowest lows of album opener "Race to the Bottom" to the dizzying perch of "Height o...

There's an antediluvian joke about the clichéd subjects of popular roots music, in which a country record is played in reverse: the singer g...

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 thi...

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 Tor...

Sallie Ford's Soul Sick is a twangy-soul-power pop song cycle about getting over loss and depression. The production and arrangement is gorg...

Alejandra Ribera's new album, This Island, sounds distinctly different from her last two releases. She's still got that torchy-jazzy-folk vi...

Sometimes you have to get away from home to find out who you are. Toronto dream-folk band Tasseomancy's last album, 2015's Palm Wine Revisit...

Being a song catcher is it's own art, different from being a songwriter, but quite as necessary. Shirley Collins' fifties and sixties record...

A collaboration from Toronto singer/songwriters Hawksley Workman and Thomas D'Arcy, Tommy Hawkins' Amy sounds like an excellent first draft...

If Tasseomancy's last album, 2015's Palm Wine Revisited, was a lush and mysterious landscape, their latest work focuses in on a much smaller...

Golden Favourites, the first studio album by Peterborough, ON's the Silver Hearts in over a decade, serves as an excellent reintroduction to...

For his fourth album, Manitoba-born singer/songwriter Lindy Vopnfjörd has recorded a stripped down, but catchy and lyrically complex song cy...

Going from funk to rock to jazz and back again, the first album from Dean Ween's eponymous solo project is a fun listen. Genre-hopping all o...

The Flat Five have been playing holiday shows and pick-up gigs for about a decade, but this is the first album recorded by this Chicago supe...

On their third full-length release, traditionally influenced English folk duo Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker gently push the boundaries of t...

The Mekons have been around for nearly 40 years, and for most of that time, they've been evolving into an alt-country band. As a group, and...

For their first release on Nonesuch Records, Boston-born, Brooklyn-based four-piece Lake Street Dive recorded an album that sounds the oppos...