Lambert, Gilbert, Watson put out new music
Brantley Gilbert put out his seventh studio disc, "Tattoos." The release features 10 songs all co-written and co-produced by the Georgia native. The lead single was "Over When We're Sober" with Ashley Cooke. Justin Moore sings on the lead-off track, "Dirty Money," while Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts fame helps out on "God Isn't Country."
Vince Gill and Amy Grant, husband and wife, combined forces for "When I Think Of Christmas."
Willie Watson has released a self-titled disc, his first-ever solo album of original material more than 20 years into his career. Watson was a long-time member of Old Crow Medicine Show. The music is out via Little Operation Records (Thirty Tigers). Watson recorded the album in Los Angeles with producers Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers) and Kenneth Pattengale (Milk Carton Kids) and with a crack band of players including Paul Kowert on bass (Punch Brothers), Dylan Day on guitar (Jenny Lewis, Nick Hakim), Benmont Tench on keys (The Heartbreakers), Jason Boesel on drums (Bright Eyes, Jenny Lewis) and Sami Braman on fiddle.
Americana singer-songwriter Kevin Gordon dropped "The In Between," his first full-length since 2018's "Tilt & Shine" and first since his throat cancer diagnosis. With guitars, drums, and bass completed for most tracks, but vocals for only one or two, the sessions went on indefinite pause while Gordon underwent radiation and chemotherapy. It took the better part of a year for doctors to certify Gordon as cancer-free. The disc contains 10 songs, nine written solely by Gordon.
Americana band Reckless Kelly released their first studio album in four years, "The Last Frontier." The 11-song collection, co-produced by Willy Braun, Cody Braun and Jonathan Tyler, features the band's blend of roots rock and country. Kelly Willis and Reckless Kelly's frontman Willy Braun duet on the title track.
More news for Miranda Lambert
- 08/22/25: Lambert, Stapleton have "A Song To Sing" on video
- 07/18/25: Lambert, McCollum organize Band Together concert for flood relief
- 07/07/25: Stapleton, Lambert have "A Song To Sing"
- 05/16/25: Westbrook teams up with Lambert
- 03/14/25: 20 years later, Lambert celebrates "Kerosene"
- 08/26/24: Worthington, Lambert team up
- 08/21/24: Lambert occupies "No Man's Land"
- 07/29/24: Wilson rides "Good Horses"
CD reviews for Miranda Lambert
Cynics might think that Miranda Lambert is presumptuous in entitling her fifth disc "Platinum" and, in effect, assuming she'll get her plaque for selling 1 million units. But Lambert says that isn't the case, but more a matter of style, looks and feel.
Lambert also wrote and discovered a lot of excellent songs that fit her quite well in an album in which she exposes her inner self as she matures. That may never more apparent than in the country rocker Lambert wrote ...
Every once in a while an album comes along that restores your faith in mainstream country music. Miranda Lambert's "Revolution" is just such a recording. It's not revolutionary, as the title might suggest. Instead, this CD is chock full of topnotch songs that are both memorable and sincere and never sound slick or overproduced. (Come to think of it, such old school values as these may in fact be revolutionary around Nashville).
Lambert vocalizes a bit like a little girl at ...
Even though it sounds like a cliche from the big book of country songwriting, the truth is that, when the timing's right, a loser can end up being the biggest winner of all. Today's object lesson comes from Miranda Lambert and her sophomore album, the follow-up to her 2005 near-platinum debut, "Kerosene."
Imagine for a moment if the then-19-year-old had actually taken the crown in 2003's Nashville Star and then been forced into the studio within weeks to be primped and ...
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