CD Reviews
Colter Wall
Memories and Empties
Willie Nelson
Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle
William Prince
Further From the Country
Noah Cyrus
I Want My Loved Ones to Go with Me
Waylon Jennings
Songbird
Dierks Bentley
Broken Branches (Extended)
Featured Interviews
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
The Felice Brothers shake off the "rust"
Near the end of the 75-minute show, James Felice of The Felice Brothers noted how this was the very first headlining show of 2025 and one of only a handful of shows for the entire year. Now, with the year having only a few days left to go, that's quite surprising - to think that this veteran band ...Couch shows you can go home again
Couch made it overwhelmingly clear that, yes, you can go home again. In fact, for the septet that mines a jazzy, sometimes pop and a bit funky sound, was back on home turf for their biggest show ever. The group did not disappoint from beginning to end of the lively, nearly 105-minute show before a ...Shoulders champions tradition
Nick Shoulders was all happy to hitting the Boston area for the second time. The word must have gotten out because the Arkansas traditional country singer drew a healthy crowd of maybe 300 even without any sort of hit to his name. So maybe the fans provided a modicum of motivation for the mustachioed, friendly singer. ...Barber stays authentic
Sam Barber has come far in a short time. Not too many years ago – four - the 22-year-old Missouri native first started playing. Tik Tok soon served him well, but seeing how his career and this evening in particular progressed, Barber is more than a viral artist. Barber's singer/songwriter ...The Latest News
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