So, House is a TV show that comes on Fox about a miracle working doctor with a cocky attitude, a sad love life and an addiction to pain pills.  At least that’s what it seemed like the 4 or 5 times I’ve watched the show.  “So, who would make up such a soundtrack?” you ask.  […]

Tommy Womack’s biography from his website starts out like the following:  “My name is Tommy Glynn Womack.  Skot Willis once said I was the craziest person he’d ever met who had his life together.  Todd Snider says I’m the only person he’s ever met in Nashville who’s crazier than he is.  So I must be […]

My Johnny Cash collection consists of Live at San Quentin, the box set of Love, God & Murder, the 5 main discs done with Rick Rubin/American Recordings and a couple of old LPs with titles such as Here Comes Cash or The Best of Johnny Cash…you know the drill.  Anyway, while I’m a big fan […]

“This song collection is inspired by the ABC television special Elvis: Viva Las Vegas – the visual chronicle of Elvis’s life during the Vegas years with particular focus on his music, his ground-breaking style-and his legacy. Previously unreleased documentary footage tells the story of how the King of Rock and Roll changed the music industry […]

So, you’re looking for some California honky-tonk?  Well, look no farther.  Or is it further?  Hell, I don’t know…but I’m leaning towards farther.  Anyway, it’s here in the form of Dave Gleason’s Wasted Days.  On their new album, Just Fall to Pieces, Gleason and Co. channel early Yoakam, Gram Parsons and the king of “Californicountry” […]

I’ve been a fan of Pete Yorn since picking up his debut, Musicforthemorningafter in 2001.  I was sure he was destined to be a big hit and I sang his praises to anyone who would listen.  Fast forward to 2007 and Yorn’s touring in support of his third studio album, Nightcrawler.  While that first album […]

So, Ryan Adams has sobered up and released a record.  At least the recent New York Times article I read says he’s been sober for about a year.  What do we get with sober Adams?  A pretty good record actually.  The one, two (pun intended) punch of “Goodnight Rose” and “Two” get Easy Tiger off to a cranking […]

Due July 31st on Bedroom Classics, Country Mouse, City House is Josh Rouse’s seventh proper full-length album.  According to his press release it was recorded over a six day session in Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain with overdubs done later in Nashville.  Speaking of Nashville, that’s the title of the first Rouse album I accquired, […]

A Monday night may not be the best night to go out drinking and dancing in Columbia, South Carolina, but that didn’t stop over 200 people from heading out to Headliner’s for some old-time string music courtesy of Old Crow Medicine Show.  The band had just gotten finished playing the Bonnaroo Festival and had a […]

When I first saw the title to Jennie Arnau’s new album, Mt. Pleasant, I instinctively thought of the little town in South Carolina of the same name, but assumed that Arnau meant something different…she didn’t.  The album was in fact named for that town.  And although she’s based in New York these days, she’s originally […]