Music Review: A sweet and savory mostly acoustic mix from Avery Hellman’s ISMAY on ‘Desert Pavement’
Avery Hellman possesses an affable alto that’s quirky, as is the perspective from which Hellman writes. “Sitting alone on the porch I think / About the things we washed down the sink,” goes one couplet. Hellman, whose grandfather founded the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, is the rural California singer-songwriter behind the musical moniker ISMAY and … Read more
