Nichole Wagner: “Plotting the Constellations”
NICHOLE WAGNER Plotting the Constellations www.NicholeWagnerMusic.com Even as EPs go, the debut recording by Nichole Wagner feels like a tease, comprising just three originals and …
Posts in category Featured Reviews
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February 20, 2018 Mike and the Moonpies: “Steak Night at the Prairie Rose”
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February 13, 2018 Wade Bowen: “Solid Ground”
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October 20, 2017 Turnpike Troubadours: “A Long Way From Your Heart”
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October 4, 2017 Book Review: “Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives” Edited by Holly Gleason (The University of Texas Press)
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September 12, 2017 Neil Young: “Hitchhiker”
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real: “Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real”
LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Fantasy Lukas Nelson’s surname may well have opened a door or …
Amilia K Spicer: “Wow and Flutter”
AMILIA K SPICER Wow and Flutter Free Range Records No matter how many new albums are still to come before we make it (knock on …
Ray Wylie Hubbard: “Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can”
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can Bordello Records Ray Wylie Hubbard fills a pretty singular spot in …
John Baumann: “Proving Grounds”
JOHN BAUMANN Proving Grounds www.johnbaumannmusic.com If you’re gonna invoke the hallowed likes of Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore by name …
Steve Earle & the Dukes: “So You Wanna Be an Outlaw”
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES So You Wanna Be an Outlaw Warner Bros. Some of the great outlaws of country music are actually a pretty …
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: “The Nashville Sound”
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT The Nashville Sound Thirty Tigers / Southeastern Records Perhaps nobody in the past decade or so is as central …
Rodney Crowell proves it’s not just the old stuff that works The Saxon Pub, Austin, Texas, June 29, 2017
By Richard Skanse Over the course of his two-and-a-half-hour, 25-song set last Thursday night in Austin, Rodney Crowell dipped just four times into his pre-1990 …
SLAID CLEAVES: “Ghost on the Car Radio”
SLAID CLEAVES Ghost on the Car Radio Candy House Media Slaid Cleaves likes singing about — or at least feels compelled to sing about — folks with …
Michael O’Neal: “Stars”
MICHAEL O’NEAL Stars Sawmill Records A Northeast Texas troubadour who has been semi-quietly building up his catalog over the past decade and change, Michael O’Neal has …
