Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country pushes into new territory
Guitar slinger Daniel Donato cut his teeth in the Nashville honky-tonk scene. The freewheeling electric picker started busking in the city’s Lower Broadway district at age 14, and not long […]
DIY songwriter Ryan Davis gets his due
Ryan Davis has a way with words, and the direction they take often yields strangely insightful surprises. Vocally, he gets a lot of comparisons to the late David Berman of […]
Dogwood Tales’ new album is an alt-country love letter to the Shenandoah Valley
The lyrics of “McMemories,” a twangy, distortion-drenched standout from Dogwood Tales’ new album Every Star in Rockingham County, unravel like a flashback in an episode of “Friday Night Lights.” Seeing […]
Cordovas bring vintage country-rock grooves to the Southern
Joe Firstman is a musical journeyman who’s taken an uncommon career path. In the early 2000s, he inked a deal with Atlantic Records and played piano-driven pop music that emphasized […]
Joe Pug hones his musical craft among peers
Joe Pug takes the craft of songwriting seriously. That’s heard in his catalog—now seven albums and two EPs deep—filled with thought-provoking lyrics but also gleaned throughout the 300-plus episodes of […]