CD Reviews
John Craigie
I Swam Here
Kashus Culpepper
Act I
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
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
With good reason, Carlile doesn't want to leave
The ending of Brandi Carlile's sold-out show bordered on the unusual. Well, given that, the final song of the encore, "A Long Goodbye," maybe not. After a muscular, engaging, invigorating personalized show, Carlile did not seem to want to leave the stage. Her band mates already had, but ...Culpepper stays in his comfort zones
Sometimes musicians may be dabblers or dilettantes, trying a variety of genres and styles before finding one that they think works and then opting for that, perhaps to meet commercial needs than artistic comfort. Kashus Culpepper, on his first headlining tour, need not worry about that because he was ...Faith is ready for prime time
The sold-out show was opening night of Carter Faith's Cherry Valley Tour. Only you would never have known that based on how the 90 minutes would unfold. Faith released her major label debut, "Cherry Valley," in October, an album that showed Faith adopting more of a traditional country sound. ...Connections count, but not so much with Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy
For Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, it wasn't only the music that mattered as the band brought their brand of psychograss and more in their first appearance in the Boston area since pre-Covid. There was an edge to their music and a ferocity to their delivery as well, but one couldn't ...The Latest News
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