Open your ears for a tasty midsummer double-up tonight at Swallow Hill Music Hall: Slaid Cleaves, an Americana keeper currently touring to promote Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, will offer up ...

Slaid Cleaves feels the inevitable slide of time, but there's still beauty to behold in its passing. A master of simple melody and sharp lyrics, the veteran singer-songwriter captures every slight ...

Slaid Cleaves has always had an interesting musical niche. Folkies and the Texas music crowd alike swoon over the laconic Yankee-turned-Texan whose music always seems like it was made for rainy days ...

Sneers, smiles and smirks (requisite components of any Slaid Cleaves album) abound on the South Berwick, Maine native's new disc, "Still Fighting the War." There are also a few nods to Hank and Woody, ...

The last album from Slaid Cleaves was the covers record 'Unsung,' so it's been about 5 years since we heard new original material from the talented, Austin-via-Maine songwriter. With the release of ...

Austin (by way of Maine) singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves has been writing meaningful music for many years now. But his new album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, is a game-changer. Cleaves ...

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Close up the honky-tonks. Shut down the open mics. Austin's Slaid Cleaves returns to show all who attempt the singer-songwriter thing how it's done. Not only is Still Fighting the War his most ...

When your given name is Richard Slaid Cleaves and you cleave the Richard from it, you basically have no choice but to become a country singer. And seeing as Maine, the state where Cleaves was raised, ...

“Sorrow is forever the song of man,” sings Slaid Cleaves on his new album. In case you miss the point, Cleaves chronicles disillusionment and depression on nearly every track. In “Tiger Tom Dixon’s ...

Slaid Cleaves’ 2000 album Broke Down was a revelation, a gritty, melancholy batch of rootsy story-songs about the erosion of relationships and the cost of dreams deferred. Wishbones, his first album ...