Katie Presley
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For the songwriter's sixth album, she leans into a retro country sound for a big-hearted set of songs about grief and burgeoning love.
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Bat For Lashes' new concept album, The Bride, plays with the same traditions and symbols that make weddings romantic, to dark and devastating effect.
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PDX guitarist's narrative marriage of a Scottish folk ballad and a Blind Lemon Jefferson blues standard updates the ancient art of music storytelling.
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops singer and multi-instrumentalist transforms an old folk song into something intriguing, infectious and downright sexy.
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The NPR Music team shares a few of its favorite work-related tracks in honor of Labor Day.
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Sister and brother Maggie and Tyler Heath blend joy and pain in ways that ring true.
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This week's podcast remembers Sean Price, brings back a '90s revolution and lets Robin engage in his once-yearly purge of emotion.
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All Songs Considered celebrates the return of co-host Robin Hilton and bids farewell to Katie Presley with a mix of great new music.
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On Ghost Notes, its first album in nearly a decade and the first by its original members since 1997, Veruca Salt embraces a throwback sound with obvious joy.
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Patty Griffin turns an unreleased Karen Dalton song into a full-throated, gospel-tinged revelation with "All That Shines Is Not Truth."