Articles by Sarah Greene

Dave Rawlings Machine

Nashville Obsolete

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2015

Six years since A Friend Of A Friend, Nashville Obsolete is the second Dave Rawlings Machine instalment in a nearly two decade-long partner...

Ben Folds

So There

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2015

So There, Ben Fold's collaborative LP with yMusic (a classical sextet from New York) is poppy, ambitious and bold. Yet despite clocking in...

Jenny Ritter

Raised By Wolves

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2015

The centrepiece of this second album by Vancouver-based songwriter Jenny Ritter is its third track, "Wolf Wife," a personal creation myth w...

Katie Moore Brings Joy to 'Fooled by the Fun'

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2015

"I've always tried to record live," Katie Moore tells Exclaim! on a stop home between gigs singing backup for Socalled at the Calgary Folk...

Katie Moore

Fooled By The Fun

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2015

From the ramshackle first few bars of "Leaving," as the band slide into a groove and syncopated guitar and airy piano usher along Katie Moo...

Iris DeMent

The Trackless Woods

PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2015

The songs on Iris DeMent's The Trackless Woods have been twice translated: once from Anna Akhmatova's native Russian to English, and then a...

Ana Egge

Bright Shadow

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2015

On first pass, Ana Egge's self-produced eighth album Bright Shadow comes across as milder and more traditional than its edgier, electric an...

Iris DeMent Channels Poetry on 'The Trackless Woods'

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2015

A powerful experience led Iris DeMent into The Trackless Woods, the songwriter's sixth album. Based on the work of celebrated modernist Rus...