“I Am My Father’s Son”: Stephen Wilson, Jr., Wendell Berry, and the Myth of Self-Creation
Wilson’s songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.
Out of the Sea by Heritage Hill, Free for CAPC Members
For contemporary worship music with a fresh musical style, Out of the Sea by Heritage Hill is a welcome collection of songs.
Ronnie Fauss: Redemptive but Not Whitewashed Alt-Country, Free for CAPC Members
Ronnie Fauss is true americana.
God and Country Music: Shovels & Rope’s Punk-Rock, Incidental Spirituality
“Regardless of the intention behind Shovels & Rope’s spiritual aesthetics, they are present throughout.”
God and Country: Echoes of the Church in American Music
Popular music generally and Americana in particular are full of Christian relics—images, sounds, and pictures that innately yearn for their spiritual fulfillment.
God and Country Music: “Sin City,” 40 Years after Gram Parsons
“Parsons figured out how to merge the old and new, sacred and saeculum (the current age).”
God And Country Music: New Avett Brothers Album Means Only Good Things
“What make the Avett Brothers such a wonderful group is their consistency and their heart.”
God and Country Music: The Musical Stylings of the Film Mud
God & Country Music: The New Jason Isbell
ELSEWHERE: Jay Nash’s Letters From The Lost
God and Country Music: What Makes a Record Great. ‘Rattlin’ Bones’ after Five Years
God and Country Music: Ronnie Fauss and the Narrative Heart of No Depression
God and Country Music: Ivan & Alyosha
God and Country Music: The Wise Blood of American Music
God and Country Music: What It Sounds Like and the Weird Categories of Americana/Folk Grammys
How Mumford Stays True
Often accused of being inauthentic, we could learn a lot from Mumford’s british invasion of Americana.
