M. Ward

M. Ward's third solo release offers up another smorgasbord of American music: blues, folk, pop, ragtime and country all share space in songs that run the gamut of subjects, from traveling to insomnia. Ward has a unique ability to sound like he could have recorded 50 years ago while still sounding thoroughly modern.

M. Ward is immersed in American roots music, though he plays it with his own eccentric
perspective. The thirty-one-year-old Portland, Oregon, troubadour has a blues voice and
an acoustic-guitar style close to the blues meditations of John Fahey, handcrafting records
with an antique feel. On his fourth album, Transistor Radio, he makes his own melancholy
folk ballads fit in with his spectral versions of the Beach Boys' "You Still Believe i... More >