Waylon Jennings: Never Could Toe The Mark (1984) By Courtney Sudbrink, Editor There’s something about seeing a Waylon Jennings =W= logo spinnin’ round a turntable that is synonymous with a stamp of quality in motion. […]
Black Creek Ragged Shark What’s with all the Americana coming out of the UK and Australia lately? Is it possible that the rest of the West is […]
Paladino Paladino By Gerry Gomez “Lonely Mountain” kicks off the debut self-titled offering by Los Angeles based, Paladino or rather, more appropriately rattles the dust off it. The up-tempo bar-room style country rock is a […]
Straight out of Sin City, it’s the Turnstyled, Junkpiled Pimp Podcast, where Rolling Stone meets Hee Haw, with hosts, Buffalo Badass and her sidekick, Little Squirrel, the self-proclaimed Pancho and Lefty of Podcasts. Bringing the […]
Buck Owens Bound For Bakersfield: The Complete Pre-Capitol Collection (Rockbeat) Filled with outtakes, re-takes and double-takes, Bound for Bakersfield demonstrates what the eventual Honky-Tonkin’ Hee-Haw host had at stake before he ever said “Buck it” […]
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 […]
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” 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
