She’s also forgotten to buy gifts for the guys in her band and has a mountain of work to do before her guests start arriving
and now pressed on vinyl and only available through Magnolia Record Club
settling into a hall-of-mirrors call-and-response chant while discordant strings tug at the melody and electronics flicker like old bar neon
We also did an interview with Neal Carpenter
John Prine was cleaning his basement when he stumbled upon an old concert recording
Good Thing Indie Folk She’s also forgotten to buyIf Coming Home was a remittance of dues, then, Bridges sophomore album, Good Thing, is a widening of horizons. His music remains broadly retro with a veil of analog fuzz built into the tracks, horn licks and references to the American South, and those buttery, laid back vocal runs that drew a line from Bridges to his idol in the first place. But his temporal fixation has loosened, making room for a more elastic, eclectic approach to songwriting that