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Turnstyled: 10/25 -11/2

Turnstyled: 10/25 -11/2

    Chicken Tractor Deluxe Nightcub Jacks & Undertakers (Self) Website: www.myspace.com/thechickentractor Get ready for a knee-slappin’ good time with Chicken Tractor Deluxe’s Nightclub Jacks & Undertakers. This Pennsylvania based band who bring Outlaw Country […]

Review: Steve Parry “The Fight Left In Me”

Review: Steve Parry “The Fight Left In Me”

                    Steve Parry The Fight Left In Me (Self) Website: http://www.stevenparry.com It’s rare that an album comes across our desk that at first listen, might be […]

Review: John Prine “The Singing Mailman Delivers”

Review: John Prine “The Singing Mailman Delivers”

Review: John Prine “The Singing Mailman Delivers” John Prine proves that the postman always does ring twice with his latest, The Singing Mailman Delivers. Take John Prine, put him in a room, give him a […]

Review: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

Review: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

Review: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams Hank Williams pens sixty-sixty songs, scattered throughout four notebooks. He dies in the back of his Cadillac at the age of 29, leaving behind the unfinished work. The […]

Sin City Spotlight: The LA Hootenanny

Sin City Spotlight: The LA Hootenanny

Sin City Spotlight: The LA Hootenanny Don’t close up the honky-tonks just yet… Take four guitars, electric bass, washtub bass, drums, piano, harmonica, fiddle, banjo and what do you get? Only some of the members […]

Turnstyled: 10/17-10/24

Turnstyled: 10/17-10/24

Music we find and like each week   Album: No Law Against Talking by Some Velvet Evening The sweet and carefree harmonies of Some Velvet Evening are a bit like a twangier, boy/girl version of […]

Review: Merle Haggard “Working In Tennessee”

Review: Merle Haggard “Working In Tennessee”

Merle Haggard: Working In Tennessee (Vanguard) by Courtney Sudbrink, Editor If there was a Country Mount Rushmore, Merle Haggard would be front and center. A man Johnny Cash called an “American icon,”the Hag’s two-stepped it […]

Larabee: A Slice of  Alt-Country Pop Goodness

Larabee: A Slice of Alt-Country Pop Goodness

A Slice of Alt-Country Pop Goodness By John G. Larson Contributing Writer Imagine Whiskeytown with some pop or Big Star with a bit more twang and the result would be a little band by the […]

Get Country, Get Down

Get Country, Get Down

Tired of standing in line outside of LA clubs? Ever wish you could get down to Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings and Billy Joe Shaver? With Get Country, Get Down, Turnstyled, Junkpiled brings you a playlist […]

Sometimes I’d rather be wrong: An AMA Op-Ed

Sometimes I’d rather be wrong: An AMA Op-Ed

Sometimes I’d rather be wrong: an AMA Op-Ed ByCourtney Sudbrink, Editor By no surprise, last night at the AMA awards, Robert Plant took home the Album of the Year Award. But did he earn it? […]

Justin Townes Earle, The Music Box LA 9/28/11

Justin Townes Earle, The Music Box LA 9/28/11

Part Two of our Earle double header – Justin Townes Earle @ The Music Box, LA 9/28/11 It’s about 9:30 pm, outside the Music Box in Los Angeles, Ca.  Standing in the shadows of the […]

Sin City Spotlight: Mark W. Lennon

Sin City Spotlight: Mark W. Lennon

As part of Turnstyled, Junkpiled’s new monthly installment on LA based Americana artists called “Sin City Spotlight,” we are featuring roots singer/songwriter, Mark W. Lennon, whose new album,  Home of the Wheel is on heavy […]