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Author: Andrew Gulden

Stoned Cold Country

REVIEW: “Stoned Cold Country”

March 17, 2023March 17, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Various Artists — Stoned Cold Country London and Nashville are about as far apart musically as they are on a map, but The Rolling Stones managed to bridge their gap with much of the early 70s work. Moving naturally from blues-based rock to country, Mick, Keith and company strove to push past the pop status […]

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Band of Heathens

REVIEW: The Band of Heathens “Simple Things”

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023Andrew Gulden0

The Band of Heathens has maintained a mantra of independence that few other artists have been able to sustain. The Austin-based group, centered around singer-songwriters Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist, has survived for two decades – thrived, really, with eight albums, an Austin City Limits appearance, and their own studio – while remaining unsigned and […]

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The Panhandlers

REVIEW: The Panhandlers “Tough Country”

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023Andrew Gulden0

The Panhandlers — Tough Country There’s a lot of country music on the radio written for (and by) people who haven’t lived the life – too many songs about horses, tractors and rough honky-tonks come from pens held by hands as smooth as the latest white-collar East Coast ex-pat. Well, that’s not so of the […]

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Drayton Farley

REVIEW: Drayton Farley “Twenty On High”

March 1, 2023February 28, 2023Andrew Gulden0

The place and time of one’s raising can place indelible marks – and permanent scars – on some folks. Singer-songwriter Drayton Farley is like that – for him, the good that came from growing up in Alabama is what draws his mind back to his home state, even with the ghosts that remain there. On […]

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Lucero

REVIEW: Lucero “Should’ve Learned By Now”

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Lucero — Should’ve Learned By Now The basis of Lucero’s sound has always been a gut-bucket hybrid of Southern rock and punk. Even when they added Memphis-flavored horns in 2009’s 1372 Overton Park or dipped into synthy 80s sci-fi in 2021’s When You Found Me, Ben Nichols’ crew kept the guitars front and center, creating […]

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Alex Maybe

REVIEW: Alex Mabey “The Waiting Room”

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Decisions…can’t make ‘em, at least not quickly. I envy the folks who can change course almost instantaneously. Me, I’ll get buried in the possible downfalls of each course of action. That’s the idea behind the title of Alex Mabey’s latest album, The Waiting Room. The Nashville-via-Washington State singer-songwriter based the album on a series of […]

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Sunny War

REVIEW: Sunny War “Anarchist Gospel”

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Sunny War — Anarchist Gospel “Closure” is a self-help buzzword that…doesn’t mean anything in the real world. We seem to be in an awful rush to “heal” and move on, usually at the expense of learning something from the scars we’ve incurred. Well, that’s not Sunny War’s way. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter-extraordinarily gifted guitar player prefers […]

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Reckless Son Matt Butler

REVIEW: Reckless Son “Reckless Son”

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Reckless Son — Reckless Son I’ve long been a fan of prison dramas (Oz, Prison Break and Mayor of Kingstown rank among my favorites). But what those dramas miss in their fast-paced, one-hour run times is the regret, despair and strange sense of placeless-ness felt by the folks in real-life detention. New York-based musician Matt […]

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H.C. McEntire

REVIEW: HC McEntire “Every Acre”

January 25, 2023January 24, 2023Andrew Gulden0

H.C. McEntire — Every Acre Very early on in the country music drama of Nashville, young Scarlett is convinced by hunky musician Gunnar to turn her poem into a song. Never mind that the song (“If I Didn’t Know Better”) was a (damn good) John Paul White/Arum Rae composition recorded by The Civil Wars – […]

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Rachael & Vilray

REVIEW: Rachael and Vilray “I Love A Love Song!”

January 11, 2023January 10, 2023Andrew Gulden0

Rachael Price and Vilray Blair Bolles have a long history that only recently began producing music. Price (of Lake Street Dive) and Vilray (now a New York-based singer-songwriter-guitar player) met two decades ago as students at the New England Conservatory of Music and traveled in concentric musical circles before beginning to perform together in 2015. […]

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