10 Underappreciated Music Acts You Need to Hear

Under-appreciated MusicBack in 2020, this column featured 16 folk, pop, and rock artists and bands that deserve wide acclaim, but have attracted only cult followings. Here are 10 more. Bobby Charles The late Bobby Charles was a gifted singer who also wrote many memorable songs, including “The Jealous Kind” (Ray Charles, Delbert McClinton, etc.) and “Walking […]

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The Creekers Detail How They Deal With Imposter Syndrome

The Creekers Detail How They Deal With Imposter Syndrome

Even though The Creekers are deserving of the success they’re experiencing… they can’t help but struggle with imposter syndrome. Tanner Horton (lead guitar, vocals) and Ashton Bowling (cajon) recently sat down with us on the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast and talked about their former jobs before they started to take off, how they found out that Luke Combs is a big fan of theirs, and why they like to call themselves “not your papaw’s bluegrass.” Horton and Bowling also detailed […]

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Bowhunter Pulls Off the Impossible: Pins Two Rattlesnakes With a Single Arrow

Bowhunter Pulls Off the Impossible: Pins Two Rattlesnakes With a Single Arrow

At a certain point, you just have to tip your cap… even when somebody is just flat-out showing off. In the hunting world, bagging a “double” with a single shot is the stuff of legends. We’ve all seen it in the movies—somebody goes full Robin Hood (or Princess Merida from Brave if you’ve got a little girl at home) and drops two targets at once. But out in the real world? It is incredibly rare. You might occasionally hear a […]

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Now & Then: Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen’s They Call Us The Lucky Ones and the reach of Doug Sahm and Band

Texas music has always had a loose gate policy. Country can walk in with muddy boots, blues can grab the good chair, and somebody will eventually find an accordion. Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen’s They Call Us The Lucky Onesfits the house-party tradition: a road-worn singer stepping into a band that knows when to lean hard and when to let the dust hang in the air. Its clearest ancestor is Doug Sahm’s 1973 solo debut Doug Sahm and Band, the big-hearted Atlantic Records record that treated Texas roots music like a borderless language.