Shovels & Rope

Surely most of our readers are well aware that today has far greater significance than simply being the fourth day in the seventh month of our year… It’s Alice in Wonderland Day!  July 4th was the day that Lewis Carroll first told Alice Liddell his most famous story!  Fittingly,...

“Basically, I’ll be playing like I’m playing Madison Square Garden.  I put all of myself into it,” says folk singer/songwriter Al Olender of her upcoming tour dates, with a bit of a chuckle.  We first met Olender last May when she headlined MilkBoy, with support and accompaniment coming from...

“We’re a middle-aged band in the middle of their career and put out a pretty good record that’s not just putting along,” says Cary Ann Hearst, one-half of Charleston-based husband-wife Americana duo Shovels & Rope.  Last month the band released Manticore, their latest LP, which focuses on the intimacy...

*Update: Sadly, Colter Wall’s entire fall tour (including all of his dates with Riddy Arman) are postponed until next year. “I started writing music as a form of meditation and therapy, without realizing it at the time.  That’s what I was using music and songwriting for.  So, my music...

Although Oklahoma-born singer/songwriter Parker Millsap is best known as an Americana musician; blending blues, roots rock, and country; for his latest effort, Other Arrangements, he made the decision to make a pop album.  The album, his fourth (which, at the age of 24, seems quite the accomplishment… in addition...