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Charley Crockett

Lonesome Drifter

CD review - Lonesome Drifter

Seldom Scene

Remains to be Scene

CD review - Remains to be Scene

Jason Boland & The Stragglers

The Last Kings of Babylon

CD review - The Last Kings of Babylon

Sierra Hull

A Tip Toe High Wire

CD review - A Tip Toe High Wire

JD Clayton

Blue Sky Sundays

CD review - Blue Sky Sundays

Joe Ely

Love + Freedom

CD review - Love + Freedom

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

Kennedy's Mishneach fest brings diverse sounds

It may have been St. Patrick's Day in Boston plus one, but given the nature of the celebration in Beantown, the day after worked just as well at least from a musical standpoint. And a most special night it was given that this was the first of two nights of Irish singer Dermot Kennedy's ...

Passim takes Riccio far

Calling all singers looking to make a musical dent...get a job at Club Passim, the venerated music club in the heart of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Proof perfect: the sold-out show featuring headline Jobi Riccio and opener Rachel Sumner. Sumner still works at the club. If she's as good at ...

Wade realizes the joy

There's a consistency about Morgan Wade, and that's mainly a really good thing. That started with Wade's songs, many replete with anguish and what might've been. Fortunately, tough times make for good songs. Wade started with "Total Control," "Time to Love, Time to ...

Ballerini entertains, while offering group therapy

A brisk Jersey chill outside was a sharp contrast to the warm reception fans had inside for Kelsea Ballerini on this clear winter night. The "Legends" army came prepared with their signs, pink cowgirl hats and bedazzled luggage tags (an homage to a new track called "Baggage"). ...

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