Category: Americana Music

Review: Lucinda Williams’ “Good Souls Better Angels”

By Paul T. Mueller – Lucinda Williams’ latest release, Good Souls Better Angels, will probably be a big hit with fans who have embraced her late-career evolution into a kind of rock ‘n’ roll godmother. It may not prove so popular with those who fell in love with the introspective poetry of her earlier days as a folkie singer-songwriter. Williams…

Little Richard album

RIP Little Richard: What made him the King

By Ken Paulson – If you have any questions about why Little Richard is such a pivotal figure in the history of popular music, just listen to the 23rd second of the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There.” “I’ll never dance with another…whoo!” There it is. The “whoo!” That’s Paul McCarney singing and the Beatles shaking their heads on that…