Three Trailblazing Ladies of Country Music in 2016 One of my favorite colloquial sayings is, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Now that’s not exactly a pretty sight to the mind’s eye, but I don’t really think we’re supposed to …
Tag Archives: Country Music
Album Review: Hans Wenzel – Greyhound 77
Album Review: Hans Wenzel – Greyhound 77 Country music has a lot of interesting wrinkles that define it. Sometimes it’s just a twang or intonation, other times it’s a full song structure that makes it country. When it comes to Hans Wenzel’s country …
Album Review: Earnest Lovers – Sing Sad Songs
Album Review: Earnest Lovers – Sing Sad Songs The Earnest Lovers are the best roots country band I’ve heard in several years. Picture yourself living in the heyday of electrified country music, hearing those twangy electric guitars for the first time. Smell the …
Album Review: Lonesome Heroes – Can’t Stand Still
Album Review: Lonesome Heroes – Can’t Stand Still If you listen to bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival and think “they just don’t make music like this anymore,” I’d mostly agree with you… but then I’d hand you this brilliant LP from the Lonesome …
Album Review: Matthew McNeal – Compadre
Album Review: Matthew McNeal – Compadre A high energy, captivating singer songwriter, Matthew McNeal has the uncanny ability to make the stories of the everyman timeless and seemingly effortless. On this album Compadre listeners find both rock-infused country as well as stripped down …
Album Review: Andrew Combs – All These Dreams – Country music album of the year contender
Album Review: Andrew Combs – All These Dreams Andrew Combs’ new album All These Dreams is one of the best country albums I’ve heard in years. He is in the company of country renaissance artists like Sturgill Simpson, Rayland Baxter, and Robert Ellis. …
Artist Interview: Liz Longley – Timeless, captivating singer songwriter
Photo credit: Alyssa Torrech If you only had thirty minutes to present your truest self, how would you do it? Well, for Liz Longley, she does it with her voice and her songs. The talented Berklee-trained singer-songwriter sidles up next to her listeners, …
Three Need-to-Know Ladies of Country Music
Each of these three ladies deserves her own feature length article (any writing volunteers out there?), but I am putting them all here together. Seriously fans of powerful female vocals will love these three and fans of traditional-influenced country music MUST LISTEN to …
Album Review: Jordan Whitmore – Other Side – Pure vocals highlight female alt country album
Jordan Whitmore‘s got the right kind of twang. She’s a genuine article who sings with conviction in her music. Built on the backs of tough girl country music, Whitmore’s sound is a little more Carrie Underwood than the traditional country we typically cover …
Cahalen Morrison and Country Hammer – The Flower of Muscle Shoals – Fresh traditional country music
Cahalen Morrison has made an appearance on our site in the past, so it was nice to hear he’s still at it. This isn’t the kind of country music you’ll hear on big radio stations, unfortunately, but it is the kind you’re likely …
