Posts tagged Alabama

By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …

By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Jan/Feb 2015/vol 8 – issue 1) Adam Hood isn’t old, but he isn’t
a young gun anymore, either. Long before the early …

By Kelly Dearmore (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) Eighteen years and 14 albums down the line from their formation, the Drive-By Truckers have …

KING CORDUROY Austin Soul Stew Self-released Genuine soul music in the classic mode is not one of the sounds that Austin is generally known for, …

JASON ISBELL Southeastern Southeastern Records By the time you read this, you’ll have likely already heard a lot of praise for Jason Isbell’s Southeastern, with …

By Andrew Dansby (LSM July/Aug 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 4) Six years ago Jason Isbell had a new band and a new career, and he …

It pays to be lonely: How Neil Young’s Harvest changed my life By Adam Carroll (Aug/Sept 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 4) I always had a really …

ADAM HOOD The Shape of Things Carnival Recording Company Three years after releasing his acclaimed second album, Different Groove, Adam Hood is back with his …

EMMYLOU HARRIS Hard Bargain Nonesuch Throughout her career, Emmylou Harris has served as the sweetheart of the rodeo, progressive traditionalist, siren of the alt-country movement …

JAMEY JOHNSON The Guitar Song Mercury Leave it to Jamey Johnson — a hickory-voiced ex-Marine who sings country music like a guy cryogenically frozen in …