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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

For The Red Clay Strays, buzz + hype are well deserved

Was it deserved buzz or overhype about The Red Clay Strays? After all, the band sold out the Boston venue (holding about 3,500) weeks ago just after putting out their first major label disc. Ask around, and people who are keen on the type of music the band plays – somewhere between Southern Rock, ...

Church of Jelly Roll offers redemption (and a lot of fine music too)

The Church of Jelly Roll operated at full throttle last night in a sold-out show. If you were feeling down in the dumps, Jelly Roll was there to give you a big boost. If you wanted to hear his music, that, of course, was also part of the night in what certainly could have been a spiritual reviv-al for many. ...

Daniel brings the Bakersfield Sound to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley

Hailing from Ben Lomond in California's San Lorenzo Valley, Jesse Daniel is a torchbearer for the Bakersfield Sound and one of the few gigging artists keeping that genre alive and kicking. Touring in support of his new album, "Countin' The Miles,"Daniel and his merry band of ...

Going country suits Post Malone just fine

Post Malone and country? No chance, at least not that long ago. Not when he's had a star career in pop, hip hop and rap to great success. So, it was quite a turn when he decided he was going country. Proof positive. He released the voluminous CD "F-1 Trillion" last month. ...

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