Dwight Yoakam Brings Honky-Tonk Fire to the Fox Theatre w/ The Mavericks and 49 Winchester I’ve been listening to Dwight Yoakam since the first time I heard his album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. as a 10-year-old growing up in the North Georgia mountains. He’s one of my most listened-to artists of all time. There […]
Americana Highways 45 RPM 2025 (Reasons to Purchase Music) 2024 was a fantastic year for music and a shit year for pretty much everything else (November 5 still stings). Music, as it so dependably does, helped explain how we were feeling during the darkest of days, and knowing that you’ll be going to a show […]
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Favorite Albums 2024 (Second Half)by Bill Bentley Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun. When a musician comes along that does not create songs just for songs’ sake, but genuinely feels like their music on this earth is to be taken seriously, that’s when the magic begins. These people keep rock & roll real, and […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: November 2024 By Bill Bentley Jeremie Albino, OUR TIME IN THE SUN. Sometimes there is a musician who walks into the front of the crowds and makes their presence well-known on the first verse of the opening song on a new album. It’s instantaneous, and can’t be plotted. It’s because the artist has […]
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Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days Dwight Yoakam has some damn range. The roles he’s played in the 40 years since his debut album – country music heartthrob, keeper of the Bakersfield Sound, and honest-to-God movie star, just to name a few – have made him an indelible part of music history. And if proof were […]
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