Recorded over a few informal sessions in early 1973 by his close pal Bill Hedgepeth, this collection of performances is rough, rugged and fo...

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-songwrit...

Operating in the misty zone between present and past, between truth and myth, and between performer and performance, we find Saskatchewan's...

"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, b...

One of Americana's best and most consistent acts have found something new to say on this, their seventh full-length. Produced by an apparent...

Jim Cuddy, co-frontman for Canada's venerable Blue Rodeo, has rarely sounded better. At 62, his voice remains as uncannily clear, affecting...

It's been a decade since Jason Isbell left the Drive-By Truckers amid addiction struggles and an imploding marriage. One of the most promisi...

Armed with a voice like a gravel road in a dry season, Saskatchewan's Colter Wall sounds more like a world-weary troubadour than most actual...

Making a rare stop north of the border to end the first leg of their tour, the Trey Anastasio Band were loose and full of energy in front of...

The recently knighted Sir Ray Davies, co-founder and principal songwriter for the Kinks, is back with his first record in almost a decade. B...

Angelino, Sam Outlaw's shimmering debut record, rode a well-worn path but felt exciting for all of its familiarity. Somewhere between the L....

Nikki Lane, a Greenville, SC-bred and Nashville-based Americana artist, sings with the weary wisdom of a woman twice her age. Blessed with a...

What a mess. With Peace Trail, Neil Young continues his streak of tossed off, lacklustre, even at times provocatively shoddy records he's ma...

As Joe Strummer once proclaimed: "This is a public service announcement with guitars."   A politically supercharged collection of songs by...

"We ain't up to nothing," sings salt-voiced newcomer Brent Cobb, "just solving all the problems of the world."   It's no throwaway line —...

There are (at least) two distinct kinds of Phish fans: fans who pay attention to their studio albums, and those who don't. Place me firmly i...

Carl Newman and company emerged into the blistering afternoon sunshine and proceeded to deliver a steady, if perfunctory, set. Make no mista...

Fully ten years after their breakthrough LP Boys and Girls in America, Brooklyn's the Hold Steady have taken to the road to remind people ju...

One of the most celebrated acts working in Austin, Texas — a town rich in celebrated acts — Wild Child arrived at TURF to fairly outsized ex...

I don't much like the Doobie Brothers. And my problem with the Sheepdogs is that they really, really like the Doobie Brothers — to the point...