Kacey Musgraves: “Same Trailer, Different Park”
KACEY MUSGRAVES Same Trailer, Different Park Mercury Kacey Musgraves is the perfect mainstream country music conundrum. Same Trailer, Different Park will be widely recognized as …
Rowed Over: “Nashville sucks! Let’s go to Nashville!”
By Holly Gleason (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) Maybe it’s because Waylon and Willie not only did it, they did it on their terms …
Rowed Over: TV’s “Nashville”
What’s so funny about peace, love and melodrama? By Holly Gleason (LSM Jan/Feb 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 1) It’d be so easy to dismiss ABC’s …
Marvin Etzioni: “Marvin Country!”
MARVIN ETZIONI Marvin Country! MarvinCountry.com Long before Lone Justice was a rumble down the wire of the biggest thing to hit country, rock or cow-punk, …
The Mavericks: “Suited Up and Ready”
THE MAVERICKS Suited Up and Ready Big Machine The Mavericks always offered a lusher kind of country, closer to the satiny sophistication of Patsy Cline …
Kindred Spirits Rodney Crowell and author Mary Karr talk about writing their album Kin — and the friends who helped bring it to life.
By Holly Gleason (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) “Our first song … was Norah Jones. Then our second one was Emmylou,” says Mary Karr of the first …
George Strait: “Here for a Good Time”
GEORGE STRAIT Here for a Good Time MCA George Strait remains the standard by which all modern mainstream country singers are judged — as much …
Stoney LaRue: “Velvet”
STONEY LARUE Velvet Smith Entertainment Stoney LaRue arrived on the crest of the last decade’s Red Dirt music wave and found himself an icon after …
Q&A: Miranda Lambert The unrepentant Texas maverick of mainstream country chases her breakthrough Revolution album with a double-barrel blast of new music — and a brand new band, to boot.
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Miranda Lambert has never been particularly interested in how other people did it. Sure, she first came …
Venue Spotlight: The Mercy Lounge & Cannery Ballroom
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Mercy Lounge & The Cannery Ballroom One Cannery Row, Nashville, Tenn., 37203 615-251-3020 / www.mercylounge.com …
