Songwriter Cindy Walker’s name is well-known to country music fans. Her songs have charted more than 400 times, recorded by icons such as Ray Charles, Bob Wills, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley. Willie Nelson released an entire album devoted to Walker’s work: (You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker) back in 2006. She has been celebrated for her ability to capture emotional moments in everyday situations that define our lives, such as meeting an old lover, aging gracefully, and dreaming of a better future.
Grey DeLisle, a longtime admirer of Cindy Walker, is best known for her voice acting work, but she’s also a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. With her own deep roots in music, DeLisle recognizes the significance of Walker’s legacy as…
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It’s been more than a decade since Jason Molina died at the age of 39, leaving behind a powerful legacy of stark, emotionally resonant music that made much of an earnest voice, a heart-torn story and the barest accoutrements of alt.country-into-blues-rock sound. First as Songs:Ohia and later as Magnolia Electric Company, Molina made a series of slow-burning, desolate classics, including the landmark Didn’t It Rain from 2002.
Lucas Schleicher reviewed the 2014 reissue of this disc very movingly at Dusted, writing, “The rest depends on Molina’s commanding voice and his lyrics, which swim in an ambiguous play of shadow and light. The spaces between the notes and the black quiet that laps against each strummed chord play as large a role in setting…
Delving into the Great American Songbook of Howe Gelb, Sandworms is a new collection that rephrases and rephases the legacy of Giant Sand across generations. This release offers bold reinterpretations from Water from Your Eyes, Deradoorian, Jesca Hoop & John Parish, Holiday Ghosts, Lily Konigsberg, Ella Raphael, Monde UFO, The Golden Dregs, and Gently Tender.
…Giant Sandworms does a reasonably good job of covering the gamut, enlisting a diverse and notably young group of artists to reimagine 13 songs recorded between 1986 and 2013. They’re predominantly Giant Sand covers, with a few solo cuts mixed in. None of the covering artists are especially intuitive — no past collaborators, no strong and obvious lines of influence.
It’s about time. Clifton Chenier finally got the biggest birthday gift of his life. For what would have been his 100th birthday, Louisiana based independent label Valcour Records, who specialize in both traditional and innovative Louisiana music, assembled a stellar cast of movers and shakers to pay tribute to the man who planted the roots of the music that made their careers.
…Chenier’s swaggering, accordion-driven sound introduced the Creole music of rural Louisiana to the world – now known as zydeco, the name derived either from the Creole pronunciation of haricots, or possibly a west African word for music-making. Created by the US’s poorest communities, zydeco is very much dance music, and concerts were once held outside to…
The 2025 release of Look At All The Love We Found: A Tribute to Sublime marks the 20th anniversary of the original 2005 tribute album Look At All The Love We Found (Cornerstone R.A.S.), now reworked and remastered, featuring over 30 artists covering classic Sublime tracks including Zac Brown Band (“Wrong Way”), Pennywise (“Same In The End”), Jack Johnson (“Badfish”) and more, in addition to 8 previously unreleased tracks. One of the unreleased tracks includes a collaboration with Slightly Stoopid and Stick Figure with their take of the Sublime classic “Slow Ride.”
“We’re honored to release our cover of “Slow Ride” with our brother Stick Figure to honor the legacy of Sublime. Produced by our good friend “Miguel” Happoldt, the OG Sublime producer…