PopMatters Highlights Kiki Cavazos in Best of 2026 So Far

PopMatters Features Kiki Cavazos

Kiki Cavazos Says “Goodbye Blues” and Keeps on Travelin’ “Kiki Cavazos uses the American landscape to measure the narrator’s life against: where she’s been and where she’s heading, or who she was and is.”  |  Read More at...
Smithsonian Magazine Features Ma Rainey

Smithsonian Magazine Features Ma Rainey

Audio Engineers Restored Hidden Notes and Revealed Lost Instruments in This New Treasure Trove of Songs by the Pioneering “Mother of the Blues” “The 118-track collection is the most complete set ever compiled of recordings by American blues icon Ma...
Downbeat Highlights Todd Albright

Downbeat Highlights Todd Albright

4-Stars: Blues for Dexter Linwood “Recording his voice and 12-string guitar on a single mic in mono sound at a short bare-bones session, Todd Albright integrates deep familiarity with the golden work of prewar East Coast and Delta blues artisans into his own...
PopMatters Highlights Kiki Cavazos in Best of 2026 So Far

Big Takeover Reviews Lone Piñon

Lone Piñon, Hot Carne Seca (Jalopy Records) “AFew contemporary ensembles engage with tradition as a living, evolving language rather than a museum exhibit, and Lone Piñon has steadily built a reputation on precisely that philosophy.”  |  Read More at Big...
Smithsonian Magazine Features Ma Rainey

The Big Takeover Features Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey, Mother of the Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings 1923-1928 (Black Swan Records) “Born in 1882, Rainey was a touring performer who starred in tent shows and theaters, singing in a variety of styles, including minstrel songs and vaudeville...