Kacey Musgraves Middle of Nowhere From the first line of the first Kacey Musgraves song I ever heard – “Woke up on the wrong side of rock bottom,” from “Silver Linings,” the lead track on her 2013 debut, Same Trailer Different Park – I knew she was one of the good ones. In the dozen-ish […]
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Songwriter and guitar player Ed Snodderly may not be a household name just yet, but he sure has written a lot of songs that have been played over and over again in a lot of households. He’s had songs covered by Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and many others in the old timey, rootsy Appalachian and […]
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Brian Cullman “How To Prepare For The Past” is a Satisfying Ride Through Music, Memory, and a Vanished World What a fun and wonderful thing it is to stumble into a book that doesn’t just tell stories about music, but also makes you feel like you’re right there in the room with a radio in […]
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Oh great, another list. And just like what always happens with lists these days, people treat them like it’s a “Where’s Waldo?” exercise, scouring through them to find what to tear apart based on their own tastes.
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Florence Dore Hold The Spark Character studies are the focus of Florence Dore’s 3rd LP (no relation to Charlie Dore, “Pilot of the Airwaves,” “Sleep All Day”). The Nashville-born, Chapel Hill, NC-based Americana artist has quite a cast of musicians adding to the festivities. The music cruises through mists of alt/rock, twangy country-rock, fanciful acoustic […]
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Paisley Fields immerses the listener in a delightful frenzy from the very jump on his instant classic Are U Mad At Me. Fields takes country music’s key ingredients – nostalgia, authenticity, the mundane indignities of life – and throws them in a blender, producing ten songs that set
By ’87 Agent Pink had come back from LA with an expensive degree and a lot of experience talking into a college radio microphone. I was the typesetter at a regional music magazine, which paid the rent, promised bylines, and came with the chance to flip through a crate
The busiest man in the country music business stays… busy. It’s hard to argue that there is a more prolific artist in country music than Charley Crockett right now. Continually operating at pace that few can match, Charley has released a whopping 17 studio albums since his 2015 debut, A Stolen Jewel, as well as a live album, a mixtape, and two EPs. But tonight’s release, on a random Tuesday night, might be his most surprising. Actually, if you’re old enough […]
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The busiest man in the country music business stays… busy. It’s hard to argue that there is a more prolific artist in country music than Charley Crockett right now. Continually operating at pace that few can match, Charley has released a whopping 17 studio albums since his 2015 debut, A Stolen Jewel, as well as a live album, a mixtape, and two EPs. But tonight’s release, on a random Tuesday night, might be his most surprising. Actually, if you’re old enough […]
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