

· By Sophie Griffin
Will Stewart's Fourth Studio Album, Moon Winx - OUT NOW
Earth Libraries presents Moon Winx, the fourth studio album from Birmingham-based Americana artist, Will Stewart.
The album is centered around the iconic, and now defunct, Moon Winx Lodge in Tuscaloosa, AL, and some of the characters and scenarios— both real and imagined— that have played themselves out there over the years. Weaving a compelling through line that simultaneously ties together true historical events— like the time Alabama jazz legend Sun Ra stayed at the lodge during a legendary three night run at The Chukker and the Arkestra were seen trying the white bread and ribs at Dreamland BBQ— with made-up personas and human drama that exists only in Stewart’s imagined mythology, Moon Winx threads the needle between fact and fiction like the best in Southern literature, and all wrapped up in the geographical vernacular of rock, country and rhythm and blues.
RIYL: Drive-By Truckers, Wilco, The Pink Stones, JJ Cale