Much like the poet Walt Whitman, the blues contains multitudes. Seemingly a genre dedicated to searing guitar solos and feedback-drenched suffering, the blues also spans gentler acoustic moods. American bluesman Keb’ Mo’ (born Kevin Roosevelt Moore) has made this mellower branch of the blues family tree his home for…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — Tennessee native Valerie June and New Orleans singer-songwriter Gill Landry have a bit of a history; the former member of Old Crow Medicine Show produced June’s 2010 EP, Valerie June and the Tennessee Express, as she was just starting out. On Monday, both…

Courtesy: Alysse Gafkjen The two-plus years since 2015 have been a time of transition for Gill Landry. The multi-instrumentalist left Old Crow Medicine Show (with whom he sang and played banjo, and won two Grammy Awards). His fiancé left him. He packed his bags and left Nashville, too, after…

A train that will house members of Old Crow Medicine Show, Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros sits idle at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland during the Railroad Revival Tour on April 22, 2011. Photos: Roman Gokhman/STAFF. This story originally appeared in the Oakland…