From the Record Crate: Whiskeytown – “Strangers Almanac” (1997)

Ryan Adams’s chief asset as a songwriter is arguably his ability to mold his struggles in articulate chunks that the average listener can really take to heart. He certainly got the opportunity to flex this muscle during his Whiskeytown days,…

Album Review: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – “The Nashville Sound”

On the opening number of Jason Isbell’s latest record ‒ “Last of My Kind,” a John Prine tribute even by Isbell standards ‒ the accomplished singer-songwriter entertains the notion that he belongs to a dying breed. Over the next ten…

Melody on Music: AltRootsCountryRock

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…

New(ish) Music Tuesdays: 9/29/2015

Welcome back to New(ish) Music Tuesday, in which The Young Folks staff share their favorite new songs. This week, we have a comeback song from rapper Game, a new cut from Naughty Boy, one of the songs from Ryan Adams’…