Posts in category Reviews

The BlueBonnets Tonewrecker www.thebluebonnets.net If there’s a better rock — as in rawk! — ’n’ roll weapon in Austin’s arsenal right now than Dominique Davalos of …

NEIL YOUNG Hitchhiker Reprise It’s hard to think of an artist who’s benefited more from the archivist impulse of the CD (and post-CD) era than …

DAVID RAMIREZ We’re Not Going Anywhere Thirty Tigers I came pretty late to the buzz-wagon that greeted David Ramirez’s last album upon its release two …

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 …

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 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 Bordello Records Ray Wylie Hubbard fills a pretty singular spot in …

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 Warner Bros. Some of the great outlaws of country music are actually a pretty …

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT The Nashville Sound Thirty Tigers / Southeastern Records Perhaps nobody in the past decade or so is as central …