Twangville

A music blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005.

More Than a Feeling: A Special Boston Playlist*

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FEATURED ALBUMS Smith & Weeden, by Smith & Weeden It’s always a treat to stumble across a band that, quite simply, sounds like they are having fun. Such is the case with the Providence-based quartet* Smith and Weeden, whose songs run the gamut from harmony-laced country to guitar-fueled rock. In the country category are ambling […]

North Of Nashville – North Of Nashville

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Sometimes the music we listen to, and write about, here on Twangville is a little light on the twang.  That would not be the case with the debut album from Maine duo North Of Nashville.  From the opening chord of the opening song, The Lady And the Outlaw, this is the music that propelled country […]

Photos that ROCK! Barnstar! in the studio

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Barnstar! at Dimension Sound Studios Jamaica Plain, MA On a lovely spring night I arrived at Dimension Sound Studios, a dozen donuts in hand. Somehow, the stars had aligned and I was invited to photograph my favorite bluegrass super-group as they finished up their second album. As I mentioned before, Barnstar! is comprised of Mark […]

Readers’ Pick: HOWLIN BROTHERS, Trouble

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You picked HOWLIN BROTHERS, Trouble as your favorite for the week of May 13, 2014. Readers’ Top Picks (last 4 weeks) HOWLIN BROTHERS, Trouble (26) OLD 97S, Most Messed Up (23) STURGILL SIMPSON, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (19) GREGG ALLMAN, All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman (11) THE BLACK […]

Monday Morning Video: Justin Currie

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In at least one way, the United States is finally catching up with Europe. Singer-songwriter released the brilliant Lower Reaches in Europe last year. Now music fans in the US are getting their chance. Currie has long excelled at writing alluring pop songs. His sense of melody will suck you in while the intelligence and […]

Joseph Huber – The Hanging Road

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Joseph Huber is a 21st century cowboy.  Back in the middle of the 19th century, a type of individual emerged in the American West who learned to take advantage of a new opportunity.  No longer did you have to live within sight of your neighbor and define yourself by your community.  You could go live […]

John Mayall – A Special Life

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A Special Life, indeed.  John Mayall is often called the “Godfather of British Blues,” but his legacy may include more than just pioneering the British blues; he arguably had a hand in saving the blues as an active music form by introducing the music to a new audiance at a time in the 1960s when elderly bluesmen were […]

Chatham County Line – Tightrope

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With blurred lines connecting all different subgenres of country music, it”s often hard to know where to start. But fans of americana/roots rock/singer-songwriter genres have an entry point for bluegrass with Chatham County Line. The band”s lead singer Dave Wilson has put together another stellar set of songs that include, but are not limited to, […]

Readers’ Pick: GREGG ALLMAN, All My Friends

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You picked GREGG ALLMAN, All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman as your favorite for the week of May 6, 2014. Readers’ Top Picks (last 4 weeks) OLD 97S, Most Messed Up (23) RODNEY CROWELL, Tarpaper Sky (16) GREGG ALLMAN, All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman […]