In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski traveled to Texas’ Hill Country and Tennessee to capture musical white lightening in a bottle. From high school gymnasiums, trailer homes, recording studios to a liquor-fueled Christmas guitar pull…
Remember The first time you heard a Merl Haggard song? That relaxed yet steady voice. This lyrics. Relive that moment with the guys over at the Lost In Vegas YouTube channel. I discovered Lost In…
On July 27th Americana and Music Row communities will join for a night to perform live John Prine covers to support Those Darlins member Jessi “Zazu” Wariner fight with cancer and to celebrate the master…
Americana and country music aren’t know for providing the world with the the lightest subjects in the music universe (Roger Miller and Todd Snider excluded). The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has underlined this truth…
The ‘The Muppets’ show too a wonderful rootsy turn the other night when Miss Piggy and Kermit Cover “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine. The song is the title cut from Prine’s 13th studio…
WARNING : Profanity I like to think I know a little about the history of country music and it’s talent over the years. So how is it that I’ve never heard of Wheeler Walker Jr.?…
Photo by Rick Diamond, Getty Images This is a guest post by Holly Gleason When Emmylou Harris sang, “One thing they don’t tell you about the blues when you got ‘em/ You keep on falling…
When Sony Music Nashville CEO Gary Overton told the Tennessean, “If you’re not on country radio, you don’t exist.” it caused a minor kerfuffle between country music bloggers and country artists, like Aaron Watson and…
The thing with masters is that they appear to wield craft with such aplomb that they give the illusion of effortlessness. Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry’s newest album, ‘Complicated Game’ builds on 2005’s ‘Childish Things’ and…
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Ryan Adams has displayed some, um, irritation at being mistaken for Canadian pop-rocker Bryan Adams. He’s also been known to get bent out of shape when Bryan Adams songs are called out at his shows.…