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Back on Track

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Midnight Gasoline

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Flatland Cavalry

Flatland Forever

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Amythyst Kiah

Still + Bright

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Billy Strings

Highway Prayers

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Jaime Wyatt is a fantastic country singer that has just released her third album, "Feel Good," and is currently on her first headlining tour. This trek has taken her to places and venues where she's never played before and has been a heartening success.
Rodney Crowell's career is littered with butterfly-effect decisions that, in retrospect, represent life-altering milestones along the singer/songwriter's star-crossed path. If the Houston native hadn't moved to Nashville at age 22, he wouldn't have been discovered by Jerry Reed...
Steve Earle pays tribute to one of his mentors and heroes, Jerry Jeff Walker, on "Jerry Jeff," which follows his "GUY" tribute to Guy Clark and "TOWNES" tribute to Townes Van Zandt. Earle has called these projects a necessary form of therapy, as each of these great artists have passed on.
The title track to James McMurtry's "The Horses and the Hounds" plays out like one of those great running songs, namely Merle Haggard's "The Fugitive." "Lord I've been running for so long I just can't find a way back home," McMurtry sings, in that enjoyable deadpan vocal tone of his. When the Haggard song is mentioned, though, McMurtry responds, "I don't really remember.
Back before the world retreated into makeshift fallout shelters for a year of Netflix binging, board games and what Warren Zevon referred to as splendid isolation, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Shannon McNally was invited to play a Music City benefit concert.
By their own admission Track45 hails from a town that is "big enough for a WalMart and a Waffle House, but not a Target or a Starbucks." Ironically, Meridian, Miss. (population (41,148) is the birthplace of the father of country music, Jimmy Rodgers. The harmony-driven sibling trio of Track45 includes Ben Johnson and his infectiously bubbly sisters Jenna and KK.

Concert Reviews

Albino needs no slack

It would be entirely understandable if headliner Jeremie Albino and opener Benjamin Dakota Rogers would have been accorded a modicum of slack by the 200 or so faithful supporters. It was opening night of Albino's tour after all. Meaning he had not played a show since October (although of course, ...

Watson's no rookie

There is a healthy skepticism about whether Willie Watson's very strong recent self-titled CD release is his debut solo album. After all, Watson, who once upon a time was a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, has already released "Folk Singer, Vol. 1" and "Folk Singer, Vol. 2. ...

From now on, Wilson Jr. needs no introduction

At the start of every Stephen Wilson Jr. concert, the bespectacled singer with an ever present baseball cap, comes out and proudly states, "I am Stephen Wilson Jr., and I am my father's son." That figured prominently for Wilson, who sold-out the club with an enthusiastic fan base singing ...

Flores keeps it honest on another great night

Wyatt Flores has come far fast, and he is making the most of it. A year ago, the buzz had already started about the Oklahoma native playing country music. He also suffered from the weight of his early success, talking openly about mental health issues he was facing. Hopefully, he is overcoming and ...

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