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Robbie Walden Band – When the Rooster Crows

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 By Shawn Underwood

The opening song on the Robbie Walden Band’s latest album, When the Rooster Crows, is 50 Years Too Late.  It’s appropriately named because the record is what it would have sounded like if Merle Haggard had done a concept album in the late sixties when The Beatles first popularized the idea.  Lyrically the project follows […]

Filed Under: Country Tagged With: Merle Haggard, Robbie Walden Band

Twangville Premiere: Ronnie Fauss covers Merle Haggard

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 By Mayer Danzig

Back in a earlier time (e.g. 2 years ago), Tuesday was widely known among US music aficionados as album release day. Then the world changed when the music industry decided that Friday would be a much better day to unleash new music. Well, with an ode to that bygone Tuesday era, Twangville if offering up […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Streams Tagged With: Merle Haggard, Ronnie Fauss

Merle Haggard Remembered

Friday, April 08, 2016 By Shawn Underwood

The interwebs are, understandably, full of posts with people’s favorite Merle Haggard songs after the legend passed away on Wednesday.  You could certainly do a lot worse than spending time listening to your favorites all over again, and maybe venturing out into a few you aren’t familiar with. But there’s a lot more we owe […]

Filed Under: Country, In Memoriam, Outlaw Country, Reviews Tagged With: Merle Haggard

Bakersfield – Review & Giveaway

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 By Shawn Underwood

Although we tend to think of the rebellion against the slick production values that Nashville country music is perhaps best known for as a fairly recent phenomena, it dates back over 50 years to a group of artists, and a Capitol Records producer, that called Bakersfield, California, home.  The Bakersfield Sound eschewed the strings and […]

Filed Under: Contests, Country, Reviews Tagged With: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Paul Franklin, Vince Gill

Twangville Presents… Bill Janovitz

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 By Mayer Danzig

Any discussion of Bill Janovitz will undoubtedly start with his tenure as a member of Boston-based trio Buffalo Tom.  For more than 25 years the group has released an incredible catalog filled with emotionally charged rock and roll.   Songs like “Tailights Fade” and “Sunday Night,” to name just a few, have a raw intensity […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Downloads, Rock, Streams, Twangville Festival Tagged With: Bill Janovitz, Merle Haggard, Session Americana, the Rolling Stones

Monday Morning Video: Peter Wolf and Session Americana

Monday, March 07, 2011 By Mayer Danzig

“Now we’re gonna just kinda roll with it,” said Peter Wolf as he joined extraordinary Boston musicians Session Americana for a surprise set last week. Imagine Wolf playing a house party in your living room, sitting around a table with a group of extremely talented and relaxed musicians, and you’ll get a sense of this […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Reviews, Roots, Videos Tagged With: Merle Haggard, Peter Wolf, Session Americana

Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYO

Friday, February 18, 2011 By Kelly Dearmore

Producing some stellar, if not downright seminal, works can be a real pain for an artist. Ask Lucinda Williams what’s it been like to answer questions about why each of her albums can’t be Car Wheels on a Gravel Road? Ryan Adams has tried for years to overcome the “Where’s the next Heartbreaker?” stigma. Classic […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Americana, Country, Folk, Reviews, Rockabilly, Roots Tagged With: Guy Clark, Hayes Carll, Merle Haggard, Ray Wylie Hubbard

Merle Haggard, with Kris Kristofferson – Live at Mountain Winery

Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Shawn Underwood

Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. There we were, all 1800 of us, singing along with Joan Baez, that darling of the counterculture, “We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy, like the hippies out in San Francisco do. And I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee.” The occasion was the […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: Joan Baez, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard

Carrie Rodriguez – Love and Circumstance

Friday, April 09, 2010 By Shawn Underwood

Lots of people have covered the Hank classics.  The Carrie Rodriguez version of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, on her latest record Love and Circumstance, ranks right up there with the best of them.  With Carrie on mandolin and Bill Frisell on guitar, there’s a richness to the instrumental that complements Carrie’s vocals and […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: Alejandro Escovedo, Carrie Rodriguez, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard

Ten for Oh-Ten

Monday, January 04, 2010 By Mayer Danzig

2010 is shaping up quite nicely, thank you. Here are ten upcoming releases whose arrival is eagerly anticipated at the Twangville general store. FREEDY JOHNSTON, Rain on the City (Release date January 12th) Has it really been eight years since Johnston’s last album of originals? Johnston’s instrument of choice is an acoustic guitar, all the […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Features, Indie, News, Pop, Reviews, Rock Tagged With: Buddy Miller, Butch Walker, Drive-By-Truckers, Emmylou Harris, Freedy Johnston, Joe Pug, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Neko Case, Patty Griffin, Peter Wolf, Raul Malo, Shelby Lynne, Spoon, Ted Leo, Will Kimbrough

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