Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
Amy Ray, industry icon and one half of folk rock duo Indigo Girls, embraced the twang with her last album, 2014’s Goodnight Tender. It was a natural progression for the Georgia native who grew up on a steady diet of Southern rock a sacred reverence for traditional country. “Songs I love to play I’ve noticed... Continue Reading →
Known as a bass-toting sideman for artists like Jonny Fritz and Andrew Combs, Jackson, Tennessee’s own The Kernal is headed to center stage with the release of his forthcoming debut, Light Country, out on John Paul White’s own Single Lock Records on March 3rd. “I’ve been waiting to put this out for a while, and... Continue Reading →
“The older folks have a nostalgia for what we’re doing, it’s familiar to them. The younger people will tell us they don’t like country, but they really like our music,” laughs Steph Stewart, who, along with Mario Arnez, comprise matching Western gear-wearing classic country duo Blue Cactus. Stewart, who credits her grandfather for influencing her... Continue Reading →
In this era of manufactured blonde Barbie Doll country queens, the landscape is crying out for authenticity and truth. Nikki Lane has answered that call. With her third album, Highway Queen, set for release on February 17th via New West Records, Lane bares her soul. In the grand tradition of the lauded female pioneers of... Continue Reading →
“I look around and all I see is flood,” says iconic entertainer John Schneider, whose latest album chronicles his experiences during the devastating flood that ransacked his southern Louisiana community last August. “We received 36 inches of rain in 10 hours; the ground was saturated, and there was no where for the water to go.... Continue Reading →
Kelsey Waldon - Dirty Old Town Kelsey Waldon's Dirty Old Town, released in August of this year, came back to our attention recently with a live Audiotree Session featured on Spotify, and we got all excited about the record all over again. This album from the hardworking Nashville-by-way-of-Kentucky songstress is country as cornbread, and we just know... Continue Reading →
With his rich, velvety voice, Cajun crooner Courtney Granger calls to mind country greats like Hank Williams and George Jones, whose high and lonesome wails and honky-tonk shuffles became the stuff of legend. The Grammy-nominated Granger grew up singing along to jukebox country records in the local dancehalls of his Louisiana Bayou hometown, and he brilliantly... Continue Reading →
Northern California-bred Nashville-based Americana troubadour, Stewart Eastham, is planning to release a brand new album, Dancers In The Mansion, out August 12th via Long Bar Music. While Eastham’s previous album, The Man I Once Was, was a portrait of a man in turmoil, his new album paints a much different picture. Dancers In The Mansion is a celebratory... Continue Reading →
Dwight Yoakam: Kentucky born, Ohio raised; Tennessee jilted, California praised. That's the way the story goes, at least. In 1977 when Dwight moved to Nashville to pursue his honky-tonk dreams, Nashville was moving away from the traditional and Countrypolitan sound it had spent the better part of a century developing, and more towards the pop-country... Continue Reading →
When I was young, I would spend time hanging out at my grandmother’s house. She was a bartender at various dive bars around the Gulf Coast and told me stories of meeting various country legends. She played records for me and always had the television tuned to TNN; I remember seeing people like Randy Travis, Barbara... Continue Reading →