Album Reviews

MIRANDA LAMBERT Platinum RCA Nashville In the middle of Miranda Lambert’s new album, after the big radio hit and the star wattage duet, sits the …

WILLIE NELSON Band of Brothers Legacy BILLY JOE SHAVER Long In the Tooth Lightning Rod Records When Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver sing about it …

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 …

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 …

VARIOUS ARTISTS El Paso Rock, Volume 4: Thunder El Paso Rock, Volume 5: The Troubled Streets El Paso Rock, Volume 6: Black Out El Paso …