On Charley Crockett’s Statement About Morgan Wallen, Beyoncé, and Gavin Adcock
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Charley Crockett has been making more and more public pronouncements that make you want to pump your fists, ranting about the music business, and making David Goggins-like motivational points
I’m Impressed by Possesed by Paul James
4 Comments(Possessed just released his latest album “Feed the Family” through Hillgrass Bluebilly Records, and it will be released worldwide Sep. 21st.) After recently reviewing the underground film The Folk Singer, I wanted to get more information about the “main character” (so to speak), the artist Possessed by Paul James, and luckily a check of his […]
No More Hank III Openers…For Now
51 CommentsIn about a week, Hank Williams III will be hitting the road on an East Coast tour, and for the first time in a long time he won’t be carrying an opening band. With one of the biggest and most loyal fan bases in non-mainstream country, Hank III’s opening slot has been coveted for years, […]
I’m Doing The Best I Can (Site Hacked)
33 CommentsFirst off thanks to the few, but vocal readers that reached out to me in the past few days, wondering if I was passed out in a ditch or something after a week elapsed without any new articles. No, I was not on a vacation. Truth is I’ve been working as hard as ever to […]
NPR’s Adverse Effect on Country & Roots Music
12 CommentsLast week an article was posted on No Depression lamenting the glossification of bluegrass. Of course my first thought was to point out bands like Trampled By Turtles, The .357 String Band, Split Lip Rayfield, The Hackensaw Boys, Larry & His Flask, and many others. But aside from that, I think you can make a […]
Whitey Morgan & The 78’s Due out Oct. 12th
0 CommentsFlint, Michigan’s Whitey Morgan & The 78′s eponymous album recorded at Levon Helm’s recording studio will be out on October 12th via Bloodshot Records. From Bloodshot: “Outlaw’s always been the rough-around-the-edges, tough guy uncle at the country music family picnic. Denim and leather, not Stetson and Nudie. Hair by Pennzoil, not Pomade. But in the […]
Bob Wayne’s Big Push & Century Media
4 CommentsLast October, I stepped onto Joe Buck’s legendary motorhome for an interview, and during our conversation he dropped the bomb that he’d signed to Century Media and was going to be working on a record with legendary producer Jack Endino. This was big news, because Joe Buck was about the last person I envisioned signing […]
Taylor Swift Tops Sugarland’s Steampunk w/ Splatterpunk
3 CommentsThis week pop country duo Sugarland released a video for their first single off the album The Incredible Machine due out in October. The album is supposedly inspired by “Steampunk,” a brand of science fiction set in an era when steam power is still widely used, but there’s also futuristic and sometimes fantasy elements. The […]
Amazon’s 50 $5 Country Albums For August
2 CommentsThe best way to buy records is directly from artists at the merch table, or directly from their website if possible. This way the biggest chunk goes directly to the artist. The next best thing is to buy from one of the last of the dying local record stores, though this is becoming less of […]
Rachel Brooke Announces New Album & Tour
7 CommentsThe female reincarnation of Hank Williams, one Rachel Brooke, has announced she will have a new album coming out this Fall called Down in the Barnyard. No specific release date yet, stay tuned. This comes on the heels of some concert dates she will be sharing with Jayke Orvis coming up in late September, early […]
Hellbound Glory Heads East
24 CommentsEver since I got my dirty little hands on a copy of Old High and New Lows I’ve been an outright whore for Reno’s Hellbound Glory, but prefaced my enthusiasm by say they need to make it back east. Well now Leroy Virgil and the boys have called my bluff, and built up enough of […]
Listen to Lucky Tubb LIVE @ The Granada
29 CommentsAt some point the world is going to have to wake up to just what an amazing talent Lucky Tubb is. This is not just another guy with a famous name doing a hokey neo-traditional bit, this is a singular talent with generations of music history to uphold and move forward. In my review of […]
Peewee Moore Hits The Outlaw Mark
6 CommentsIf someone asks you to define just what exactly you mean when you say “REAL” country or when you call someone an “Outlaw.” If words fail you when someone asks you to clarify what you mean when you say your music has to have “that sound.” When you say “I know it when I hear […]