Author: Christine Steele

Clancy Jones: Found My Way Southeast Texas born-Oklahoma ranch hand and former oil and gas boilermaker Clancy Jones makes a helluva splash with his first collection of songs, Found My Way, which will be released May 13. It’s said he shares DNA with the King of the Hillbilly Piano Player, Moon Mullican, a third cousin, […]

Douglas Wayne — Coyote Singer songwriter Douglas Wayne, aka DW’s debut album Coyote sounds more like a collection from a seasoned songwriter than a first album. And that’s because it is. A journeyman East Nashvillian for 17 years, he’s been writing and pitching songs almost as long, as he tells it in his recent Americana […]

Sometimes, going down a rabbit hole on the internet can lead you to something special. In this case, it led me to the Hill Figs. What are Hill Figs, you ask? Well, as they tell it, a Hill Fig is a “person of sweet flesh hidden beneath a dark, unattractive surface,” as in “has a […]

Sam Weber —  Get Free Canadian singer songwriter Sam Weber’s latest album, Get Free, released Feb. 4, on Sonic Unyon, is packed with emotional songwriting and ethereal songs, with the lyrics of a troubadour who has seen a lot in his 28 years, with depth packed into each line.  Weber first picked up a guitar […]

Jason Boland and the Stragglers — The Light Saw Me While many singer-songwriters went internal with their songwriting during the pandemic, digging deep into emotions surfaced from time away from the road, Jason Boland went external —extraterrestrial, even. What does a concept album about alien abduction by a Red Dirt Country legend sound like?Well, if […]

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats — The Future Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ 3rd studio album, The Future, released Nov. 5, on Stax Records, covers a lot of ground in its 11 songs — and sometimes all in one song. Recorded at Broken Creek Studio, Rateliff’s studio outside Denver, The Future was produced […]

Bruce Cockburn’s Greatest Hits (1970 – 2020)  Out Dec. 3 on True North Records, legendary Canadian singer songwriter Bruce Cockburn’s Greatest Hits is a masterpiece 2-CD collection of 30 songs spanning his 50-year career. The release coincides with the singer’s induction into Canada’s Walk of Fame on December 4, and his “2nd Attempt” North American […]

David Tribble — Golden Junk Texas singer-songwriter David Tribble’s new album, Golden Junk, is full of honest, beautiful, songs that draw you in and have you listening to them again and again. Tribble describes the songs on this album—his third—as “songs that need to be heard.” We agree. They also show his range, as he […]