Articles by Thierry Côté
The Go-Betweens
G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 2, 1985-1989
PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2019
Coming nearly five years after Volume 1, which anthologized the formative years of the Go-Betweens, G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 2, 198...
Tanya Tucker
While I'm Livin'
PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2019
It has been quite the year for Brandi Carlile. Of course, there was that show-stopping performance of "The Joke" at the Grammy Awards back...
Amanda Shires
To the Sunset
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2018
If the striking image of a shimmering, ghostly Amanda Shires on the cover of To the Sunset hints at the fact that fans of the excellent My...
Ashley Monroe
Sparrow
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018
After The Blade garnered Ashley Monroe her first Grammy nomination, the singer could have stuck with a proven sound and approach to songwri...
Various
Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War
PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018
Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam...
Alison Krauss
Windy City
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2017
Windy City, Alison Krauss's first album since 2011's Paper Airplane and first to be credited to Krauss alone since 1999's Forget About It,...
NRBQ
High Noon — A 50-Year Retrospective
PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2016
There aren't many bands like NRBQ out there. For half a century, NRBQ (which stands for "New Rhythm and Blues Quartet") have been delightin...
Lisa LeBlanc
Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?
PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2016
If the purpose of Lisa LeBlanc's first English-language EP — 2014's excellent Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted — was to buy hersel...