Jewly Hight appears in the following:
First Listen: Molly Tuttle, 'When You're Ready'
Thursday, March 28, 2019
The singer, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist shapes tuneful introspection around her remarkable flatpicking abilities on the guitar.
First Listen: Reba McEntire, 'Stronger Than The Truth'
Thursday, March 28, 2019
The country legend's new album returns to some of her commercial roots, telling stories of domestic betrayal in grand yet thoroughly grounded fashion.
Buddy & Julie Miller Return With New Album, Share Two New Songs
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The beloved Americana duo is back with its first new album in a decade. Hear two early cuts from it, "War Child" and "Spittin' On Fire."
Dan Auerbach Reflects On The Sounds Of Easy Eye Sound Studios
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Auerbach breaks down working with new artists and seasoned session players through his label imprint, Easy Eye Sound.
Yola Combines Softness And Grit In Her Virtuosic View Of Americana
Monday, March 04, 2019
The black British singer grew up loving American country music. Now, she's living out her Americana dreams with her debut full-length, Walk Through Fire.
First Listen: Patty Griffin, 'Patty Griffin'
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The brilliant, openhearted singer-songwriter's 10th album showcases her gift for imagining the untamed forces of people's inner lives.
First Listen: Della Mae, 'The Butcher Shoppe'
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Returning from hiatus, the bluegrass band showcases its combination of playfulness and muscle as a performing unit.
First Listen: Our Native Daughters, 'Songs Of Our Native Daughters'
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla form a banjo-wielding supergroup dedicated to the history of both string-band music and black women in America.
First Listen: Adia Victoria, 'Silences'
Thursday, February 14, 2019
For Adia Victoria, the role of Southern blueswoman is wily, radical, thoroughly contemporary and rife with real darkness.
First Listen: Hayes Carll, 'What It Is'
Thursday, February 07, 2019
On the Americana singer-songwriter's sixth album, Carll unburdens his mind about the volatility of our time so unassumingly, he never comes close to overburdening his songs.
Producer-Rapper Duo A.B. And Petty Trace Overlapping Musical Circles
Friday, February 01, 2019
In their first interview together, the Nashville natives talk process, opportunity and country music.
Maren Morris' New Song, 'GIRL,' Is A Pep Talk To Herself
Friday, January 18, 2019
After three years of whirlwind success that led from her debut album through last year's smash dance-pop hit "The Middle," Morris' new song is an interior dialogue about struggling through self-doubt.
First Listen: Lula Wiles, 'What Will We Do'
Thursday, January 17, 2019
The Berklee-educated trio of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland and Mali Obomsawin deftly mine the particulars of their individual lives into a rousing, modernist adaptation of Americana music.
First Listen: Leyla McCalla, 'The Capitalist Blues'
Thursday, January 17, 2019
On her bustling third album, the former Carolina Chocolate Drops member maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora while gently taking Anglocentricism (and capitalism) down a notch.
Derek Minor And nobigdyl Have Faith In Fleshing Out Their Own Compelling Visions
Friday, January 11, 2019
As different as the two Christian rappers are artistically, they proved equally thoughtful about their aims and aspirations in conversation.
First Listen: Randy Houser, 'Magnolia'
Thursday, January 03, 2019
Randy Houser imagines and inhabits a blue-collar, tortured soul character with some of the most expressive performances of his career.
Female Country Music Singers In Nashville Navigate Gender Bias To Be Heard
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
In the era of #Time'sUp and #MeToo, women continue to struggle in the world of country music. Many are taking matters into their own hands and bypassing the industry's gatekeepers.
A Portrait Of A Subtly Changing Nashville From 25 Angles
Friday, December 21, 2018
If you look at it broadly, the country music scene can appear frustratingly stagnant, with little growth for women and trailblazers. But from every corner, a rising generation is making progress.
Talking Shop With Nashville Creators Natalie Hemby And Luke Dick
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Over breakfast biscuits and coffee, the two Nashville artists talk about songwriting, filmmaking and how one medium informs the other.
Mercury Rev Remakes A Country-Rock Opera With Margo Price, Norah Jones, More
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
The psych-rock band's ambitious recreation of Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete features a cast of women vocalists gifted at pondering both interior and exterior worlds from a remove.