Record Store Day 2019 – Americana and Roots Music Picks
Spring has sprung and for some antiquated reason we lose an hour of sleep, pollen lays waste to the weakest among us, people lay in fields Of bluebonnets just begging for a snake bite and…
Category Archives: Reissues
Watch Out! Live Review – Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo” 50th Anniversary Tour, Dallas TX.
How do you tour in support of a seminal album when its main influence has been dead for 45 years? Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are currently on the road trying to answer that very…
Bob Dylan to Release Complete Sessions of Legendary “Basement Tapes”
According to Consequence of Sound The entire collection of work by Bob Dylan and The Band (then known as the Crackers) Basement Tapes sessions will be available to the general public. Coming November 4th via…
Contest: This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes – Omnivore Recordings
Lone Justice was the gateway band for much of the music that I have loved and written about over the years. Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni, and Don Heffington helped define the term “Cowpunk…
Twang Nation Podcast Episode 12 – Amanda Shires, Shinyribs, Sturgill Simpson, Markus Rill
The Easter Day podcast (aka episode 12) is now hot off the presses straight Casa Twang. there are some great cuts here, from rootsy-waltz of Amanda Shires’ Bulletproof, the Lone-Star groove of Shinyribs (aka Gourd’s…
Record Store Day 2012 – Americana Music Picks
If you do live in a place with at least one independent record store, and love music, then you need to know about the upcoming Record Store Day. This internationally celebrated day is observed on…
News Round Up: Catalog reissues due from The Jayhawks and James McMurtry
Two classic titles from pioneering alternative country band The Jayhawks have been expanded for reissue by Sony Legacy editions. Hollywood Town Hall (1992) and Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995). Both Legacy Editions will be available…