Brittney McKenna
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Produced by Brandi Carlile, the eponymous 11-song collection offers snapshots of Brandy Clark the person, not Brandy Clark the pen-for-hire.
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Carlile wrote her latest album during COVID-19 lockdown, fresh off having written a memoir. The record plumbs her past with humility, but even more so, celebrates the hard-won wisdom she's gained.
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Roots music has always had rule-breakers, but its shift this century toward genre-twisting innovation owes a lot to a 2000 album by three kids barely old enough to vote.
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East Nashville, where many artists and industry folks work and live, was hit particularly hard by the tornado that swept through the city in the early hours of Tuesday.
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The husband-and-wife duo's new album is an impressive feat of song craft from one of roots music's most exciting, unpredictable acts.
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The Nashville-based songwriter uses her platform to share the untold stories of the city's homeless and formerly homeless population.
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On Lori McKenna's new album The Tree, the beloved writer further cements her status as one of our foremost documentarians of domesticity.
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Gorgeous harmonies still prevail, but the foursome eschews its earlier Americana to explore chamber pop, all while spinning sparkling yarns of underground bunkers and nuclear fallout.
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The country singer's ninth album shows why Womack is one of American roots music's foremost auteurs.