Robert Earl Keen is an artist who needs no introduction. You probably know him best for the hit “The Road Goes on Forever”, which has been covered by giants such as The Highwaymen and Joe Ely. That being said, he has plenty more under his belt, including 19 albums over the last 30 years. By […]
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Sometimes when you read the story of an album, it almost comes across as fiction. You can say that about Thoughts and Prayers by Idiot Grins. Yes, the title sounds like something by a pop-punk band. However, the inspiration for this album not only predates punk. but also comes from the completely opposite direction. Just […]
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Natalie Schlabs is a singer-songwriter who was raised in Texas and now lives in Nashville. Not surprisingly, her roots are in country music. But sometimes artists shift away from what they have been known for, and Schlabs has done that on the new album Don’t Look Too Close, which was written mostly when she was […]
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Radio Receiver is a band that was born when Nate Wallace of Hearts of Oak had a bunch of songs that didn’t seem quite right for a Hearts of Oak record. Geography also played a part in the formation of this band. Mark Folkrod (drums) moved across the street from Anna Verlet (violin, vocals) in […]
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Raye Zaragoza is an artist whose heritage is Indigenous, Mexican, and Japanese. She has long been accustomed to being different than those around her. It’s no surprise, then, that identity plays such a big part on her new album Woman in Color. On the album, she explores not only her identity, but also the identity […]
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photo by Cameron Whitman Justin Trawick is a singer-songwriter who has built a following touring in the Washington D.C. area and along the East Coast. In fact, in 2014, he won a Washington Area Music Award for his song “All the Places that I’ve Been.” Like all other touring musicians, he was forced to find […]
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Two Bird Stone is a project of Liam Thomas Bailey, a multi-instrumentalist who has played alongside Rodney Atkins and Brett Eldridge, among others. The new album Hands and Knees is the result of Bailey’s efforts to focus on writing original material that spans bluegrass and Celtic sounds. After the mellow title track that has a […]
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A lot of fans of country music will tell you that they have no use for the poppy country produced in Nashville. They might also think that legends like Willie Nelson are the only ones making classic-country songs. Luckily those country music fans can look to artists like Zephaniah OHora, who is doing his part […]
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photo by Meredith Jenks Zephaniah OHora is a musician who shows that country artists don’t have to live in Nashville or Texas. He lives in Brooklyn, which nobody would peg as a hotbed of country music. But if you listen to This Highway and his new album Listening to the Music (produced by Neal Casal), it’s […]
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When you hear Colter Wall sing, you realize a couple things. First, with a baritone voice that makes you wonder if he made a deal with the devil, you realize that he was born to sing. It is almost impossible to imagine him in any other profession (except maybe rancher). Second, on the new album […]
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