Robert Ellis: “Robert Ellis”
ROBERT ELLIS Robert Ellis New West From the first sparkling moments of “Perfect Strangers,” it’s apparent that Robert Ellis has found a more pop-forward take …
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November 14, 2016 Remembering Leon Russell A song for you ... and me ... and us
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August 17, 2016 Old friends, shining like diamonds, come together for “Guy Clark: A Celebration” Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, Aug. 16, 2016
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July 30, 2016 Colvin & Earle, together again for the first time For Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin, collaboration was a long time coming
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June 27, 2016 The Highwaymen ride again with a little help from a Family friend Mickey Raphael on the making of “The Highwaymen Live: American Outlaws”
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June 4, 2016 Maren Morris finds her truth The independent Texas songwriter steps up to the big time with her bold, genre-blurring major-label debut, “Hero.”
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Maren Morris finds her truth The independent Texas songwriter steps up to the big time with her bold, genre-blurring major-label debut, “Hero.”
By Holly Gleason “My definition of country music is — in so many words — sheer beauty delivered with ugly honesty,” begins Maren Morris, trying …
In Memoriam: Guy Clark Randall Knives, Desperados and Homegrown Tomatoes
By Holly Gleason “If I can just get off this LA Freeway Without getting killed or caught …” It’s 6:42 in the moring, and traffic …
Hard Working Americans: “Rest in Chaos”
HARD WORKING AMERICANS Rest In Chaos Melvin/Thirty Tigers After the self-titled cover romp of 2014’s Hard Working Americans, featuring songs by such Americana catnipsters as Hayes …
Bourbon ’n’ “Big City” Merle Haggard sings us back home: A personal tribute to a life-changing legend
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
Q&A: Hayes Carll talks “Lovers and Leavers” How the acclaimed Texas troubadour learned to stop worrying about pulling punchlines and learned to love the terrifying process of getting real
By Holly Gleason It’s been five years since Hayes Carll put out a record, but it feels more like a decade. For the jokester/heart-tugging troubadour, …
LSM Playlist: Nashville’s “Great Credibility Scare” of the ’80s A dirty dozen maverick albums that rocked the country status quo
By Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
Aubrie Sellers is nobody’s “Paper Doll” Hell hath no fury like a fiery young artist in full command of her own sound
By Holly Gleason Aubrie Sellers is mad. “So this guy writes about my record, and says all this stuff … like Frank (Liddell, the producer …
Lyle Lovett talks “Songs & Stories” tour with Vince Gill “Cred Scare” vets team up for 13-date acoustic swing through the South
By Holly Gleason “We were doing two shows in Philadelphia and somewhere in New Jersey, and we got snowed out,” Lyle Lovett says of his …
Aubrie Sellers: “New City Blues”
AUBRIE SELLERS New City Blues Thirty Tigers Aubrie Sellers comes on like a new kind of country queen: tough, strong, smart, raw and someone who …
