High Road Touring

[Paste Magazine] By Hilary Saunders Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Curated by the Paste Music Team. We Americans like to claim the blues. After all, they originated in our churches and crossroads, in our deltas and our hills. They were popularized in our ...

[Acoustic Guitar] By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers There’s a kind of clarity and calm in Joan Shelley’s music that feels especially welcome in these fractious times. Her crystalline voice, with just a touch of vibrato, glides over soft fingerstyle guitar, with melodies and imagery that seem to spring from traditional folk yet are her own. “Rest ...

[Flood Magazine] A virtuosic performance from Mary Beth Richardson. By Dean Brandt Every person who’s ever directed a film about a big-shot city-slicker making his foray into small-town American life believes in Banditos the way they believe in gravity—their existence is a practical fact of life that remains largely unexamined. In “Healin’ Slow,” whose video ...

[NY Post] By Barbara Hoffman “If I can get through this show, I can get through anything,” George Winston told himself one night in September, 2012. The Grammy-winning pianist made it through his sold-out Sandpoint, Idaho, concert, but barely, collapsing in his dressing room after leaving the stage. Three months earlier, Winston, now 68, had ...

[The Line of Best Fit] By Jake Hawkes Hailing from Chicago, Ratboys make their own brand of indie rock that’s mixed up with just a dash of Country flavouring. New track “Westside” is a stunning example of just how good this mix can be, with a strung-out, dreamy feeling that’s as if the whole track ...