Few singer-songwriters of the last decade have built a fanbase as absolutely adoring as Maggie Rogers. There’s a throughline all the way up the ladder to Taylor Swift. While Rogers isn’t filling arenas with radio pop anthems, the emotional frankness of her lyrics, and her authenticity, both in song and onstage, falls in the same […]
You can’t even begin to have a conversation about the 1960s folk revival without talking about the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. The singer and guitarist introduced acoustic music combining folk, blues and jazz to many thousands of young people at the time, and also provided a launching pad for artists like Geoff Muldaur and his […]
It took Tinsley Ellis 40 years to get around to it, but, for his 21st album, the blues singer-songwriter and guitarist—who long ago established himself as one of the consummate badasses of the genre—has made a solo acoustic album. Naked Truth is the perfect title for it too because Ellis, who has never resorted to […]
