Sarah and Austin McCombie’s third album as the Chatham Rabbits is a bold step forward for the Americana duo.
Madeline Crone
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The Story of the Relationships Behind the Powerful New Branchettes Documentary, ‘Stay Prayed Up’
A friendship between Phil Cook and Sister Lena Mae Perry, matriarch of the Branchettes, turned into a preservation project and gospel documentary that transferred soul to screen.
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On Third Album ‘Nightroamer,’ Sarah Shook’s Raw, Observant Songwriting Shines Bright through Cosmic Country.
“I can’t speak for my bandmates, but I have no desire to imitate a sound or go after a style,” Shook explains. And I like that about it—I don’t think I’d have it any other way.”
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To Release ‘A Deep Clean You Can Count on!,’ Owen FitzGerald First Had to Take a Long Look Back
“If emotion was a temperature, these are all very hot songs. The circumstances around them are all different, but they are all equally ‘hot’—like, ‘I would rather die than feel how I am feeling right this second.’”
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The Music Industry Is Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis. Local Musicians Have a Message: “Be Good to Yourself.”
Due out November 8, the benefit album raises money for uninsured musicians across the state.
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On His Latest Solo Album, Mac McCaughan Finds Existential Reprieve—with a Little Help from His Friends
“The Sound of Yourself” was released September 24 on Merge Records.
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On His Tenth Release, ‘Quietly Blowing It,’ Hiss Golden Messenger Gets Personal
“I hear a concentrated and condensed version of myself filtering through the smoke of America on ‘Quietly Blowing It’ that feels kindred; I hear myself talking to myself.”
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On New Album ‘Stranger Again,’ Blue Cactus Sings a Cosmic Country Ode to Growing New Together
The album comes out on Sleepy Cat Records on May 7.
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How Flock of Dimes Found Her Way Out of Heartbreak and on the Road to Healing
On Jenn Wasner’s transcendent new album, “Head of Roses,” personal growth buds after a breakup.
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H.C. McEntire Had to Make “Lionheart” to Put the Past Behind Her. “Eno Axis” Resets the Land, Transformed, Under Her Feet.
The Mount Moriah bandleader’s second solo album finds her reflecting on all that she loves—and all that she wants to change—about the state she calls home.