Buddy Guy is one of the most celebrated blues musicians of our time. The 88-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee has won 8 Grammys, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and the most Blues Music Awards of any artist.

Woven Hollow is a folk duo from Carbondale, Colorado, that began making music in 2017, releasing their eponymous debut EP on Bandcamp in 2018 (material from which later showed up on Spotify). After five years without recorded output, the husband-and-wife duo of Van Wampler and Anna Murphy have released a new single, “Ten Feet Under.”

LifeSize, the moniker for singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Scott Marshall, has released an eponymous double album that compiles most of his recorded output in the decade of the 2010s. Marshall grew up in Seattle and spent his college years in the San Francisco Bay Area, becoming a part of the music scene through the band Noisy Neighbors. After some years of wandering, Marshall settled in Los Angeles, releasing LifeSize’s first album, Eden Next Left, in 2010. The next

From Charleston, West Virginia, and based in Los Angeles, singer Stephen Thomas got his start in 2012 with his contemporary R&B album Changes. But these days, Thomas leans into other styles. Starting with his single, “Back Home,” in 2024, Thomas made a sudden shift into alternative rock. His voice took on some grit, and he dropped the vocal flourishes for an anthemic sound

“Early times” also stands out for how it sidles up to bluegrass the way The Night Owls sidle up to barroom country. It’s not quite there, but the banjo and dobro take it close enough to make it distinct from his earlier songs. Hotopp’s sometimes pitchy baritone gives the song a bigger center of gravity than you would hear on most bluegrass ballads, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Ultimately, “Early times” expands Hotopp’s musical palette, adding to the diversity his p

In a day job that sounds more like a former life, Steve Erickson was a successful public relations exec on the East Coast, who thought “about writing songs,” he says, “long before I actually wrote them down.” All that changed in 2012, when he released his first album, It’s About Time. Now, in the last quarter of 2025, after five albums' worth of songs he’s written down, Erickson has released a four-song EP called Wonderland.

After over two decades with Warner Music Nashville, Blake Shelton left the label and released his debut album, For Recreational Use Only...

Kim Edwards’ music is a resonating oasis of reflectively melancholic art. Having won the prestigious Jerry Ragovoy Songwriters Workshop,...

If you’re looking for a romp through the stylistic and emotive possibilities of country, you need look no further than Rachel Whitcomb’s debut LP, Wildest Dreams.