Sam Morrow | Gettin’ By on Gettin’ Down | (Forty Below Records) 3 1/2 out of 5 stars “My favorite rock & roll is the stuff that has groove to it…funky, layered rock…” proclaims Texas-bred country rocker...

Just a few days ago, Atlanta-based R&B singer-songwriter, Queen Naija, celebrated her 25th birthday. While, in many ways, she is still quite a young person, Naija has, nevertheless, already seen a great deal of life. She is a mother to...

“I went through the ‘great heartbreak’ of my life,” Benedict told American Songwriter. “I think every songwriter — every human — knows what I mean when I say that. In life, you have let-downs, but there’s always...

There’s no one way to describe Notelle. She’s been dubbed a rising dark alternate pop artist, EDM featured vocalist and topliner but none of that truly explains who she is or what her music is about. Many...

The Shadowboxers | The Slow March of Time Flies By | (independent release)Three out of Five Stars Nostalgia can be kickstarted in several different ways. It might be an old movie, a faded photograph, a...

Saunder Jurriaans has been fighting monsters for some time. Nearly a decade earlier, as he was coping with severe depression, Jurriaans started unraveling a number of often imaginary “creatures” impacting his life and mental health at the...

Last week Plants and Animals dropped their fifth album, The Jungle, which sees the Montreal trio delivering their most dialed-in—and far out—collection to date in just eight tracks. The indie rock outfit—composed of Warren...

The world has changed, and it has forced change upon us. Internally, externally, we’ve all been forced to adapt and evolve. As a society we’ve become both stronger and more vulnerable and those enhanced traits have trickled...

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Bobbie Gentry often made the performance rounds on the “The Ed Sullivan Show,” 'The Bob Hope Show," and “The Andy Williams Show.” She even graced “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” with her...

Today, the American Songwriter Podcast Network and the Stay Human podcast are announcing their partnership. Stay Human is an invigorating package of experience and dialogue where the renowned singer-songwriter and activist (among other occupations) Michael Franti hosts...

Nashville singer-songwriter, Jessie Baylin, practically grew up in a New Jersey bar. Her parents owned the restaurant and, subsequently, had to spend nearly all their waking hours there. Baylin, as a result, was treated to life lessons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDo1617aXX4&t=30s Essential D minor: Tom Waits, "Eggs & Sausage" This is our second story in our series on the characteristics of musical keys. We started with the "people's key," C major. From there...