Posts in category Vol 7 Issue 3

BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS Our Year Thirty Tigers After taking forever and a day before finally getting around to making a full album together, …

JOHN FULLBRIGHT Songs Blue Dirt Records The go-to cliché when it comes to praising a truly exceptional vocalist is to say he or she could …

Mr. Record Man: Old 97’s By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) The year 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Old …

By Lynne Margolis (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) Radney Foster’s new album, Everything I Should Have Said, opens with a sinister tune about a …

By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive …” So begins the first song on …

LESLIE KRAFKA Onward Smallz Records Houston’s Leslie Krafka is proof that it’s never too late to find your true calling. A few short years ago, …

GRANT PEEPLES Punishing the Myth GatorBone Records 105 Woody Guthrie reminded us that it takes a worried man to sing a worried song. On Punishing …

UNCLE TUPELO No Depression: Legacy Edition Sony Legacy Uncle Tupelo’s 1990 debut No Depression inadvertently kick-started contemporary alt- country, and was so influential in shaping …

DAVID GRISSOM How It Feels To Fly Wide Load Frustrating indeed is this latest solo album from Austin guitar star David Grissom, best known for …

MERLE HAGGARD Okie from Muskogee: Anniversary Edition Capitol/UME Despite the title, this is a double-disc twofer of Haggard’s late-60s live albums Okie from Muskogee and …