Borges returns to action

Love's Middle Name

Sarah Borges tackles some tough issues on "Love's Middle Name." "House on a Hill" is about the aftermath of a dead relationship. "Are You Still Takin' Them Pills" is pretty self-explanatory in nature. The eventually uplifting message of "Grow Wings" starts with the line "This world is too painful for gentle souls, someone like me." For all that darkness, the album, as is typical of Borges, is still a delight to play. ...

Good and Dirty

Sarah Borges spent a good many years road dogging with her longtime band, the Broken Singles - a brilliantly effective display vehicle for her tough-but-tender songcraft - before taking a much needed hiatus to start a family and reflect on her journey to date. With the Broken Singles shelved after a game but ultimately unsuccessful run for the brass ring, Borges went the solo route in every conceivable way; she separated from her husband, Singles guitarist Lyle Brewer, and released the sedate but ...

Radio Sweetheart

It's popular on social media to bash anything that becomes too popular, so you often see people who have problems with music crowdsourcing. Lame, greedy, not very artistic, not rock-n-roll, "digital panhandling," sad, etc. But if an artist in need has more resources in terms of fans than funds, and delivers on their promises, what exactly is the problem? For her first album since 2009 and first since the breakup of her band the Broken Singles, Sarah Borges seems to have put the more ...