You picked David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum as your favorite new release for the week of January 28, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 David Gideon – Lonesome Desert Strum (75 votes) Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13) North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail (11) The Whitmore Sisters […]
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Nightroamer
One of my musical discoveries during the lockdown was Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. Their brand of pounding country punk was the perfect soundtrack with which to give fate the middle finger. And underneath the attitude, there were a lot of good songs. So I was looking forward (deservedly so, it turns out) to their […]
Jimmer Podrasky of The Rave-Ups on Finding BBQ on the Road and Taking a 24 Year Hiatus From Music
Jimmer Podrasky of The Rave-Ups celebrates the band’s first new album in more than 20 years by reflecting on secret rehearsals in the basement of A&M Records and the band’s early gigs in Pittsburgh.
Monday Morning Video – Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman was a songwriter’s songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by everyone from Jimmy Buffett to Willie Nelson. Here’s the master performing a few himself, including “Banana Republics” and “City of New Orleans”, the latter of which earned Goodman a posthumous Grammy when Nelson covered it in 1984.
Readers’ Pick: The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories
You picked The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories as your favorite new release for the week of January 21, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13 votes) The Whitmore Sisters – Ghost Stories (8) Elvis Costello & The Impostors – The Boy Named If […]
Lord Nelson – Transmission
It’s an oft-attempted, but less often achieved, feat to capture the live sound of a band on a studio album. It’s a shame, because there are many groups that consistently kick it up a notch when they’re in front of a crowd. One of those is Charlottesville, VA-based Lord Nelson. They thought they had the […]
Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz on Good Coffee and Teaching College
Tammy Rogers (of the SteelDrivers) and Thomm Jutz talk about their cars (and how much they love them) and their shared effort to avoid fast food on the road.
Monday Morning Video – Bendigo Fletcher
In search of one last morsel of music late one night at last fall’s Americana Conference, I stumbled across Louisville, Kentucky’s Bendigo Fletcher. Although I only caught a couple of songs, the band’s melodic (and harmonic) charm and lyrical intensity stuck with me. I finally got to see a full and proper set on the […]
Readers’ Pick: Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind
You picked Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind as your favorite new release for the week of January 14, 2022. New Releases Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2022 Eliza Gilkyson – Songs from the River Wind (13 votes) Elvis Costello & The Impostors – The Boy Named If (8) The Kernal – Listen […]
Hank Erwin Video Premiere – Sally
Last fall I wrote about the new album from Hank Erwin, Copper. Generally speaking, the record is full of Southern rock ballads and outlaw country tales, many of them at least partially autobiographical. If you’re going to just sample a couple of songs, you can’t go wrong with Altana or Hell Or Harlan, both with […]