When you look for bio information on Bones Owens, you don’t find a lot. Like many musicians, he makes his home in Tennessee, although he’s not really a part of the Nashville scene. He has worked with Yelawolf and toured with Whiskey Myers. His previously released EPs comprised mostly Americana songs. His new self-titled album […]
Duluth, Minnesota, has never been known as a hotbed of country music. Luckily for us listeners, good country music can come from anywhere, even a place as far north as Duluth. Breanne Marie and The Front Porch Sinners is a band that calls its sound “Great Lakes country,” which is as good a description as […]
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It’s not easy for a musician to come up with something original. After all, the number of musical notes is limited. But even if you’re using all the notes that every other musician has ever used, it’s possible to put a different spin on things. Brian Smalley is an artist from Florida who has developed […]
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Tony Hannah is an artist who was born in Tennessee and grew up in Berkeley, California. It makes sense then that her sound is influenced as much by classic country like Linda Ronstadt as by California country. The new EP Premonitions shows just how she manages to blend the two together. Right off the bat, […]
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Pony Bradshaw is an artist from northwest Georgia. It’s not easy to find information on him other than that he writes songs and is a natural dissenter. Even if you don’t know a lot about him, it’s easy to see from his new album that he has a real knack for writing songs. Calico Jim was […]
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Pony Bradshaw is an artist who lives in northwest Georgia. The area where he lives helped to inspire his new album Calico Jim. The album tells stories of man and nature and the connection to history. Of the album, Bradshaw said, “It was paramount that we practiced restraint. Less glamour was something I reminded myself […]
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You could say that Corey Ledet was born to play music, and you wouldn’t be wrong. His grandfather Buchanon played drums for Clifton Chenier and Rockin’ Dopsie. Other members of his family played with the likes of Bobby Blue Bland and Louis Armstrong. Corey was the ripe old age of 10 when he first started […]
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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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