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Chip’s Top Albums of 2024

Thursday, January 02, 2025 By Chip Frazier

2024 was a difficult year to rank albums. There were so many exceptional releases this year that if I tried to re-rank the list it might look a lot different depending on my mood. My top 5 were the albums that really stuck with me, as for the rest it was very difficult to rank […]

Filed Under: Best of Year, Reviews Tagged With: 49 Winchester, American Aquarium, Billy Strings, Charley Crockett, Emily Nenni, Fantastic Cat, India Ramey, Jack White, Loose Cattle, MJ Lenderman, the Avett Brothers, The Mavericks, The Red Clay Strays, Waxahatchee, Yarn

Shawn’s 25 Favs of 2024

Friday, December 27, 2024 By Shawn Underwood

1) Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well She raised her game to a new level. The insight and emotion in some of the songs on this record really do make me think that cardinal was John Prine. I’m not sure there’s been a better song ever about growing up than the title track. 2) Billy Strings […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Outlaw Country, Reviews, Roots, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Billy Strings, Dwight Yoakam, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jamey Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Kaitlin Butts, Karen Jonas, Ruby Joyful, Sierra Ferrell

Readers’ Pick: Billy Strings – Highway Prayers

Friday, October 04, 2024 By Tom Osborne

Billy Strings – Highway Prayers (cover art)

You picked Billy Strings – Highway Prayers as your favorite new release for the week of September 2y, 2024.

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Billy Strings

Newport Folk 2023 – Sunday

Thursday, August 10, 2023 By Jeff McMahon

Every year I am lucky enough to attend Newport Folk Festival, and I have attended six, there’s a moment where the music takes on a full sensory experience. Time stops. When Gregory Alan Isakov took the Quad Stage, that moment occurred. Gregory Alan Isakov and his band including banjo, fiddle, keys, and percussion. Isakov’s new […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Reviews, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: Billy Strings, Gregory Alan Isakov, Senora May, Sumbuck

Monday Morning Video – On the Road Again

Monday, July 20, 2020 By Mayer Danzig

Another day, another week, another month without live music to sustain us. The Willie Nelson classic has never been as relevant as it is today. Here’s Billy Strings performing “On the Road Again” just last year and Willie, along with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson, closing out a show with it back in […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Bluegrass, Country, Videos Tagged With: Billy Strings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

Best of 2019- Chip’s Picks

Friday, December 27, 2019 By Chip Frazier

This was a tough year to rank best albums. The sheer volume of good releases made it difficult. This is especially true in the Americana genre with it’s ever expanding boundaries. All the same, I gave it my best shot. 1)Yola- “Walk Through Fire” Released early in the year, from my first listen I knew […]

Filed Under: Americana, Best of Year, Bluegrass, Country, Indie, Indie Rock, Reviews, Rock, Roots, Singer/Songwriter, Videos Tagged With: Billy Strings, Brittany Howard, Hayes Carll, Hiss Golden Messenger, Jade Jackson, John Paul White, Josh Ritter, Kelsey Waldon, Mandolin Orange, Molly Tuttle, The 40 Acre Mule, Tyler Childers, Vandoliers, Whiskey Myers, Wilco, Yola

Billy Strings – Turmoil & Tinfoil

Thursday, September 21, 2017 By Shawn Underwood

There’s a saying most of you are familiar with, “like catching lightning in a bottle.”  In the music business it’s not unusual to hear that applied to the idea of catching a band’s live performance energy & style in the studio.  Hence the reason most jam bands, and many others frankly, never have much of […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Reviews Tagged With: Billy Strings

Billy Strings & Don Julin – Fiddle Tune X

Friday, November 07, 2014 By Shawn Underwood

Fiddle Tune X is for bluegrass fans with attention deficit problems.  The new album from Billy Strings and Don Julin nearly captures an entire bluegrass festival in 59 minutes.  The Michigan based duo, with just a guitar, a mandolin, and their vocals, cover ground from speed-picking, self-written tunes all the way to slow gospel harmonies. […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Bluegrass Tagged With: Billy Strings, Don Julin

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Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 16?

  • Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (31%, 10 Votes)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (19%, 6 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (9%, 3 Votes)
  • Barenaked Ladies – IN FLIGHT – CARRY ON (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Dan Mangan – Natural Light (6%, 2 Votes)
  • The Talbott Brothers – Borderlands (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Peter Rowan – Tales of The Free Mexican Airforce (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Kat Hasty – The Time of Your Life (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Ben Hackett – Songs for Sleeping Dogs (3%, 1 Votes)
  • The Lowtimers – Cracks (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Suzie Brown – Songs Worth Saving (3%, 1 Votes)
  • BEATrio – BEATrio (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Erin Durant – Firetrail (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Sweet Megg – Never Been Home (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Christian Rutledge – An Inch Of This New York Mile (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Travelin’ McCourys – One Chord That Rings True (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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