LSM Throwback Thursday Review Randy Rogers Band: "Rollercoaster" (2004)
RANDY ROGERS BAND Rollercoaster Smith Entertainment (2004) If you’re a band or artist striving to make your mark, every new album is a chance to …
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September 2, 2016 Jack Ingram: “Midnight Motel”
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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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August 9, 2016 Dixie Chicks shine a light to a better way Austin360 Amphitheater, Austin, Texas, Aug. 7, 2016
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July 8, 2016 Recap: Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic When it’s hot and expensive, what keeps fans coming?
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June 3, 2016 Turnpike Troubadours: “Diamonds & Gasoline” (2010) Fans voted this the best Red Dirt album of the LSM era — and it wears that title well.
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Bonnie Bishop: “Ain’t Who I Was”
Bonnie Bishop Ain’t Who I Was Thirty Tigers It can be difficult knowing which albums are truly “Americana” these days. Whereas your more basic established …
LSM Throwback Thursday Review Guy Clark: "Dublin Blues" (1995)
GUY CLARK Dublin Blues Asylum/Elektra (1995); Dualtone (2016 vinyl reissue) Guy Clark passed from this world in the early morning hours of May 17, 2016. …
Margo Price: “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter”
MARGO PRICE Midwest Farmer’s Daughter Third Man Records Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, the auspicious debut (on Jack White’s Third Man Records) from Illinois native and current …
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 …
Rob Baird: “Wrong Side of the River”
ROB BAIRD Wrong Side of the River Hard Luck Recording Company As tired and outdated as the sentiment “Nashville sucks” may be these days, when …
Aaron Einhouse: “It Ain’t Pretty”
AARON EINHOUSE It Ain’t Pretty Vision Entertainment Aaron Einhouse knows that a country songwriter without a pile of tunes mining the depths of painful heartbreak …
LSM Throwback Thursday Review Reckless Kelly: "Under the Table and Above the Sun" (2003)
RECKLESS KELLY Under the Table and Above the Sun Sugar Hill Records (2003) Even though they originally hail from the Pacific Northwest, Reckless Kelly is …
Dixie Chicks: Six strong hands on a steering wheel Taking a long look back at “Wide Open Spaces,” “Fly,” “Home” and “Taking the Long Way”
DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces (1998, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Fly (1999, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Home (2002, Open …
Neil Young, Lucinda Williams & friends deliver in spades down by the river Whitewater Amphitheatre, New Braunfels, Texas, April 25, 2016
By Richard Skanse No one could ever mistake Neil Young for an “unknown” — let alone unappreciated — legend in his own time. But a …
