Articles by Stuart Henderson
Townes Van Zandt
Sky Blue
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2019
Recorded over a few informal sessions in early 1973 by his close pal Bill Hedgepeth, this collection of performances is rough, rugged and f...
Hayes Carll
What It Is
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019
On his last record, 2016's Lovers and Leavers, Hayes Carll sounded down, and maybe even out. For one of country music's best singer-songwri...
Colter Wall
Songs of the Plains
PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2018
Operating in the misty zone between present and past, between truth and myth, and between performer and performance, we find Saskatchewan's...
Amy Ray
Holler
PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2018
"There's a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer," sang Patterson Hood on one of the Drive-By Truckers' greatest songs. A simple metaphor,...
Old Crow Medicine Show
Volunteer
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2018
One of Americana's best and most consistent acts have found something new to say on this, their seventh full-length. Produced by an apparen...
Day Two: Violent Femmes, Drive-By Truckers, Shovels & Rope, New Country Rehab
Fort York, Toronto ON, July 5
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2018
We arrived a bit late to catch Caitlin Rose, despite heavy rushing and some light tugging on my five-year-old's arm. But we got there in ti...
Jim Cuddy
Constellation
PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2018
Jim Cuddy, co-frontman for Canada's venerable Blue Rodeo, has rarely sounded better. At 62, his voice remains as uncannily clear, affecting...
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
The Nashville Sound
PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2017
It's been a decade since Jason Isbell left the Drive-By Truckers amid addiction struggles and an imploding marriage. One of the most promis...
