Following two volumes of roots renditions of his own songs, the shapeshifting country musician returns with a bluegrass concept album about love among the legends of the Kentucky frontier.
In Tuareg culture, women rarely play guitar; this Nigerien group breaks with that tradition. Their 2019 live recording captures them at a hypnotic high, far from home but in command of an eager, inviting spirit.
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The Los Angeles-via-Toronto singer offers a finely wrought EP that showcases her oceanic voice and her austere songwriting.
In the summer of 2015, in the back of a tiny bar in Toronto, I heard Elissa Mielke sing for the first time. An opener for an opener, she stood before a crowd of perhaps 20 people and played three unadorned songs on an electric keyboard. Itâs a testament to her voiceâan immense ocean of an instrument, as complex in its sweetness as raw honeyâthat I still think of that performance six years later. The title of this EP,