2928 miles (4712 km in civilized measurements) is the distance separating Grace Potter’s current home, Topanga Canyon, from her native Vermont; a journey she has made several times by car and which serves as the common thread of this road movie she presents to us.
This is an album about heartbreak, about painful breakups and their immense expanses, which can either create works that are excessively self-indulgent and indebted to that pain, or sensitive, subtle, and constructive works. Lordy is one of the latter. Houndmouth offers us 35 minutes in which, in that Americana shed where some keep their most … Read more
Sturgill Simpson is an Americana buccaneer. This album, his ninth since 2023, is his second under his new alias: Johnny Blue Skies, now officially accompanied in the credits by the Dark Clouds.