Sierra Ferrell Announces 2025 “Shoot For The Moon” Tour
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Sierra Ferrell is about to have a BIG 2025, so it might be one of your last opportunities to see her in small venues. She’s just announced a slew of new headliners dates under the appropriate title “Shoot The Moon.”
Jake Orvis New Album “It’s All Been Said”
16 CommentsJayke “Goddamn” Orivs, (a name I coined, thank you very much) formerly of the .357 String Band and now of The Goddamn Gallows, has finally set a hard and fast release date of June 29th for his solo project called It’s All Been Said. Originally there had been some chatter about it being released in […]
Curb Records Officially Squanders Hank Williams Legacy
55 CommentsToday is the release date of Hank Williams III’s album Rebel Within. This is his sixth and final album with label Curb Records, meaning that he is now a free man, finally done after a 14 year battle with Curb over creative control and timely release of his music. And Hank III isn’t the only […]
Vintage Album Review – Workingman’s Dead
18 CommentsThose that have been around here for a while know that I like to come out of left field with my vintage album suggestions. You already have a big stack of records, no need for me to rehash through them. Still I know some of you are rolling up to this thinking, “What kind of […]
Shaver Mends Ticker, Ready for Muddy Roots
1 CommentEarly last week Outlaw country music legend Billy Joe Shaver had surgery in Austin where they put a stent in a coronary artery. Shaver had a heart attack about 10 years ago, and the surgery allowed him to miss a scheduled arraignment on a felony gun possession charge. Shaver was found not guilty for shooting […]
Willie Bashes Pop Country in TIME
22 CommentsWillie Nelson is an ever evolving animal. Outlaw, to crossover musician and actor, to an unsavory era where it seemed he was palling around with whoever he could to stay “relevant.” Now maybe he has made it full circle, or he’s moved into uncharted territory. Either way, he’s making good music again, deeply entrenched in […]
Stock Rising for Leroy Virgil (Interview)
10 CommentsWhen I wrote my review of Hellbound Glory’s new album Old Highs and New Lows I forgot to mention the other great players on the album besides the frontman Leroy Virgil, especially the drummer “Chico,” whose the other member of the band that has been there since the beginning. But as their recent album gets […]
Hank III Adds Western Dates to Canada Tour
27 CommentsHank Williams III has just announced some new US dates on the tail end of his first Canadian tour starting June 4th in support of his new album Rebel Within. Opening for the American leg will be the greatness of Izzy Cox in a move that is surprising, but also makes perfect sense to me […]
Snow Patrol & REM “Go Country”
4 CommentsWell, at least REM guitarist Peter Buck, and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody. And hell, throw in movie starlet Zooey Deschanel as well, why not, and you have the supergroup Tired Pony. I already have tired head thinking about this. On July 12th the band will be putting out an album called The Place We […]
Review – Outlaw Radio Compilation Volume 1
43 CommentsI picture a post-Apolcolyptic scene: ghost towns full of crumbling buildings and rubble, smoke filling the sky and blocking out the sun, the result of a society that gave no value to art, heritage, and truth; a vast wasteland of grayness. Then all of a sudden in the midst of all the death and decay, […]
Outlaw Compilation Track List & Cover!
22 CommentsWell I finally have the official Outlaw Radio Compilation Vol. 1 in my dirty little hands and let me tell you, what a thing it is to behold. I am just amazed at the work Jashie P of the Outlaw Radio Podcast did to put this whole thing together. I have a review of the […]
Eminent Domain Spells End for Music Artifacts
9 CommentsAs we move more into the assessment phase of the great Nashville flood of 2010, the tragic stories begin to be fleshed out in full, none more biting than the ones that include the loss of life. As I read about loss of music artifacts and damage to historical landmarks, I can’t help but think […]
Eric Church: Tilt At Windmills No More (A rant)
125 CommentsThe sheer speed at which American pop country is devolving before our very eyes can only be described as “awesome.” It is the evolutionary equivalent of if we could witness a species of apes evolve into a new race of humans in the length of a football season. As the creatively bankrupt boardrooms of Music […]