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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Imogen Clark is an Australian singer-songwriter who has been playing gigs since she was 13. That allows plenty of time for lessons on how to capture the listener’s attention and how to craft a song. On her new EP The Making of Me, it’s clear that she has taken those lessons to heart. Of the […]
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Some bands seem to hit the ground running and release albums immediately and consistently. Other bands take a little more time to find their niche. Market Junction is a quartet from Texas that falls into the latter category. Guitarist Justin Lofton said, “It’s taken us nine years to figure out who we are and what […]
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Some artists can only be classified as a one-person genre. They are unique artists who have proven over time that they can comfortably span a variety of styles to the point that you just can’t confine them to any one category. Ray Wylie Hubbard is one such artist. Interestingly enough, while Hubbard has shown that […]
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Often when an album has been around for 25 years, it is labeled a classic. Zane Drake’s new album Goodnight My Sweetheart the Devil is new in that it has not been released until now. However, it was recorded in 1995 and 1996, and like so many albums was shelved. Granted, albums aren’t always shelved for […]
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Last year, Kendell Marvel released his album Solid Gold Sounds, which was produced and co-written by Dan Auerbach. On top of that, it garnered some much-deserved attention for Marvel, whose songs have been recorded by noted country artists such as Chris Stapleton and Blake Shelton. Recently, Marvel released a cover of Lee Hazlewood’s song “Houston”. […]
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When you see the press photo of Nocona on the band’s website, you’ll see that the members if nothing else were influenced by the fashion of Flying Burrito Brothers. And yes, it may leave you wondering where you can find threads like that. You don’t have to listen to much of the new album Los […]
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Like a lot of musicians, Lara Taubman grew up surrounded by music. At some point she turned toward painting and curating art, but the music bug is a funny thing. It has a way of getting inside people and setting up camp. In fact, if you talk to a lot of musicians, you’ll learn that […]
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Home is a different concept for a lot of musicians. A lot of times, home for a musician is where their stuff stays when they are on tour. (When tours are a thing, of course.) Other musicians divide their time between numerous hometowns. Theresa Lucia is one of the latter, dividing her time between New […]
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Southern songwriters have a way of writing songs to explain life in the American south. Drive-By Truckers made an album of it with Southern Rock Opera. In a similar fashion, Dirt Reynolds has recorded Scalawag as a way of “exploring his own southern identity in modern culture.” Exploring identity is an interesting proposition for Dirt […]
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