A new A.I. chatbot known as ChatGPT is making moves in the music industry with its creative writing abilities. Launched in November 2022 by artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the chatbox has written an astonishingly eloquent piece in the style of Mark Twain for Alabama folk duo Webster’s Wheel announcing their Yum Yum Pie Tour 2023... [Read more]
You don’t have to be the biggest folk fan in the world to know that when Webster’s Wheel enters the studio to make music, they mean big business for the genre, but serious folk aficionados are already aware of what their new album Yum Yum Pie means... [Read more]
It takes more than strong lyrics and a couple of catchy tunes to make a folk album extraordinary. It takes a lot of heart, plus an emotional connection that transcends mere love of the folk genre itself; in short, it takes someone like the exquisitely talented Webster’s Wheel, who pour everything in their souls into the new record Yum Yum Pie... [Read more]
Like a cool autumn breeze gusting through a solemn, empty field, the instrumental melody that greets us within the moving “In the Turnstile” is only a small sampling of what’s soon to arrive in the wake of its cold salvo of string play... [Read more]
Folk sometimes feels like one of the more elite and discriminating American genres to both understand and fully appreciate, but in the case of Webster’s Wheel and their new album Yum Yum Pie, the traditional music of Americana and those who made the aesthetic everything it is today couldn’t be much more accessible and easy for us to experience... [Read more]
Webster’s Wheel has something very real to say in their song “All This Time,” a prime folk tune found on the new album Yum Yum Pie, and every verse featured in the track is seemingly brimming with the kind of melodic color that you can’t find very often anymore in pop music... [Read more]
TENDERLY SO
2022 FULL ALBUM
Webster’s Wheel’s personal brand of Americana has a greater degree of intimacy and historical grounding than other roots music. A lot of songs in this genre sound perfunctory much of the time, studied, intent on “namechecking” a few essential tropes to pass the casual listener’s smell test. Daniel Lee Webster and Marie Robertson, however, are responsible for ten songs that have grit and grace galore present in every musical turn and each line... [Read more]
Tenderly So is an excellent title for the latest release from Webster’s Wheel. The tandem of Daniel Lee Webster and Marie Robertson’s ten tracks for this album are varied, rarely retreading familiar ground, but share important similarities. You will not hear electric instruments anywhere on Tenderly So. Robertson and Webster have a clear loyalty to acoustic music born out of personal recognition that it’s an ideal vehicle for their songs rather than catering to fashion... [Read more]
Webster’s Wheel isn’t bashful about incorporating Southern imagery and traditional lyrical tropes into their material. This stylistic decision does give the songs a feeling of being plucked out of time and the acoustic setting for Tenderly So’s ten songs accentuates that mood... [Read more]
Performing as Webster’s Wheel, Daniel Lee Webster and Marie Robertson write songs that recall simpler times without ever being simple. The straightforward nature of the ten songs included on their latest release Tenderly So lightly disguises the emotional depths explored by the duo and there’s more to the arrangements than meets the ear... [Read more]
MILK & GRASS 2021 FULL ALBUM
This week, Webster’s Wheel, Opelika, Alabama, acoustic indie folk duo, sets out across the southeast on their Milk & Grass Tour 2021 in tandem with the release of their new album Milk & Grass. The album comes out this Friday, Aug. 6, and Music Existence says listeners are going to find Milk & Grass to be “quite the treasured studio LP this summer season.”... [Read more]
Rustic but capable of stinging us with just as powerful a melody as anything electrified, the strings that Webster’s Wheel use in making their music so accessible to fans take center stage once again in Milk & Grass, the latest LP from the acclaimed folk outfit... [Read more]
There’s not a lot of oomph to the opening bars of “People Around,” the first track in Webster’s Wheel’s new album Milk & Grass, but for all this song lacks in rhythmic energy it makes up for in warm tonal goodness the likes of which are a rare commodity anymore.... [Read more]
Webster’s Wheel have been quietly building a nice following for themselves in the last couple of years, and in 2021, they’re making it known to the press and newfound followers that theirs isn’t a campaign of fleeting dedication. Milk & Grass, their new summer LP, has a distinct confidence to its ten songs that doesn’t exist in the content I get from one-off hit-makers as a critic; there’s something more passionate and invested in their performance here that tells me they’re the real deal... [Read more]
Strung together quite literally out of the acoustic sounds of an old school Americana we don’t get to hear enough of on the mainstream anymore, Webster’s Wheel’s new LP Milk & Grass captures the Alabama twosome sounding more divinely in touch with the medium than ever before.... [Read more]
With a harmony that could be celebrated from their home state of Alabama to the rocky shores of Maine and sunny beaches of California the same, Webster’s Wheel hit us with the most affectionate of melodic showings their new album Milk & Grass includes in the song “Love Ye One Another.” The political trappings of the lyricism are sterling and unapologetic, but they’re bound together by an instrumental tightness that reminds us of the community America really is no matter how big in population we become.... [Read more]
MADE IN SUNSHINE 2021 FULL ALBUM
Webster’s Wheel, Opelika acoustic indie folk duo, has announced the launch of their sophomore album Made in Sunshine, set to be released Feb. 12. The album has been written as a spiritual guidebook to help listeners find healing during difficult times and has been described as “incredible” by Miami’s Too Much Love Magazine, “groundbreaking” by MobAngeles Press and “unmissable” by Hollywood Digest... [Read more]
To be honest, I’ve been less than impressed with a lot of the most-lauded singer/songwriters within the present folk movement taking shape in the American underground these past three years, but personally I think that Made in Sunshine is as close to gold as it gets.... [Read more]
With a freewheeling lack of inhibition driving every plucked string out of the speakers and into the air around us, Webster’s Wheel make it clear in the opening bars of “Reasons” exactly what they’re all about in the new album Made in Sunshine. One of the more alluring folk releases of 2021 thus far, Made in Sunshine teases us with new era acoustic pleasantries in “Reasons,” a progressive aesthetic in “If You Know,” some retrospective songwriting skill in “Daisy Chain,” and a tightly-wound harmony in “Little Boy Blue,” all the while sounding like more of a live performance than a standard studio LP... [Read more]
Though a good chunk of the music industry suffered in 2020, acoustic artists had a surprisingly good year all things considered, with a flood of exciting new indie sounds coming into the spotlight and raising the standard for the next generation of singer/songwriters. In response to the competition, Webster’s Wheel are hitting 2021 as hard as they can with the beautifully simple Made in Sunshine... [Read more]
REST MY WEARY I'S 2020 FULL ALBUM
No matter which one of the eleven songs included on Webster’s Wheel’s Rest My Weary I’s you’re listening to, you’re guaranteed to find two amazing elements – vocals and guitar. The indie duo flirt with an ebbtide of harmonies as evocative as it is deeply emotional in “Static Bloom,” “Hike Up the Valley” and the stomping “Shepard Boy.”... [Read more]
In Rest My Weary I’s, the new album from Alabaman folk duo Webster’s Wheel, folkies and fans of simplistic melodicism everywhere are almost certain to find solace amidst our stormy modern times this spring. 2020 has admittedly been a bit of a hit or miss year among independent artists, especially in western acoustic music, and this could be part of the reason why Rest My Weary I’s feels as special as it does. On the other hand, even if the last five months had been packed with top shelf content, something tells me an album like this one would still be a standout.... [Read more]
Against a backdrop of gilded string play, the likes of which has been mostly absent from airwaves in 2020, Webster’s Wheel proceeds to unveil some of the smartest and most enigmatic verses you’ll hear on a folk record this spring in the song “Static Bloom.” Cutting in tone and yet humble in style, the words that the singers breathe life into are nothing short of spellbinding from the start, but they’re definitely not the lone reason to check out this track (and, for that matter, its parent album). In Rest My Weary I’s, Webster’s Wheel compile a collection of songs just like this one that you should be listening to right now.... [Read more]
