Like our Mumford & Sons cover story? Here’s some other shots that came from that photo session. More  Also check out the story here. Terrible Things premiered their song “Last Look” from the album Pre-Transmission, which will drop on December 11. More The lead singer of My Morning Jacket, Jim James, announced his solo debut [...]

It’s image-recovery time in Nashville. Powerful New York publicist Makena has made Juliette go to an event at the zoo for a Sean Butler’s fundraiser. Who is Sean Butler? Well, a nice, Tebow-esque NFL rookie who likes fuzzy animals and church. “You haven’t let me do anything fun for three weeks,” Juliette whines, before posing [...]

The story of how I first heard The Lumineers comes with some embarrassment. As a new Nashvillian-by-way-of-Manhattan, I have a magnetic draw towards anything southern. Thus I’m slightly ashamed to admit I’d started watching a show called Hart of Dixie back in December, which involves an actress named Rachel Bilson running around a fictional Alabama [...]

The Lumineers, “Dead Sea” “You told me I was like the Dead Sea; you’ll never sink when you are with me,” goes the chorus to this pulsing indie folk song from the Lumineers’ self-titled debut. "Dead Sea" by The Lumineers

In conjunction with our new country music issue, American Songwriter proudly presents The Country Way Digital Volume 3, featuring 12 must-hear tracks from some of our favorite artists. And the best thing about it? It’s free! You can download the sampler by going to this URL: http://thecountrywaydigitalsamplervol3.bandcamp.com/ Rodney Crowell, “I’m A Mess” Later this summer, [...]

My conversation with Wesley Schultz, the lead singer of The Lumineers, began with some peculiar discussion of upside down banana unpeeling, hypothetical children’s names, and Bourbon allergies; yet it didn’t deter Schultz from revealing all the nuances of the up-and-comer’s songwriting secrets. After all, I told him we would start with the irrelevant questions. The [...]