It's been a year since Mile Twelve mandolinist, David Benedict released his solo album, The Golden Angle. He's celebrating the anniversary by publishing a transcription book and putting out a previously unreleased track from the album, called “Bish Bash Bosh” featuring Mike Barnett, David Grier, and Missy Raines.
The topic at hand finds the narrator calling someone out on the carpet for living in either denial or dishonesty about how they are handling their current, seemingly destructive, situation. It's a tale as old as time, made new again by a refreshing voice who will, with any bit of luck, continue to impress to at least the degree she does here.
Evie Ladin premieres her new single, "News Cyclone" from her upcoming album Caught On A Wire, due out March 21.
Danny Schmidt has always been a gifted songwriter when it comes to marveling over life’s greatest wonders, from friendship and love to the natural world, all of which can be heard across the ten albums he’s released over the past two decades. But he says fatherhood has challenged him to open his heart even further. Listen to "Just Wait Til They See You" from his upcoming album, Standard Deviation, and read an excerpt of his recent conversation with Kim Ruehl.
Listen to the premiere of "Walnut Tree" - the first single from the upcoming self-titled, debut EP by Lovers Leap (Shelby Means, Mary Lucey, Joel Timmons, Billy Cardine) due out April 19.
Listen to the premiere of David Huckfelt's "Still and Still Moving" from this upcoming release, Stranger Angels out February 22.
Maya de Vitry's “Go Tell a Bird” does everything a folk song is supposed to do—and does it exceptionally well. It is both simple and complex, digestible and impossible, distilling some of the most seemingly complicated, urgent and timeless human debates down to 35 words in fewer than four minutes. Its instrumentation is collaborative and swelling, like the cooperation between a pair of wings and a good hard gust.
Hear "The Fox," the first single from Peter Mulvey's upcoming album, There Is Another World, due out on February 15th on Righteous Babe Records.
“Fenceline” focuses on the impulse humans have had across generations and societies, to build walls in an effort to keep unwanted people out. Tivel found herself wondering: What is at the core of this need to construct barriers between ourselves and others?
Twisted Pine's Rachel Sumner shares her lead single, "Bred In the Bone," from her upcoming solo EP, Anything Worth Doing.
