By Richard Skanse The Hayes Carll pictured on the cover of his new album, What It Is, looks every minute of the eight years he’s …
By Holly Gleason It’s been five years since Hayes Carll put out a record, but it feels more like a decade. For the jokester/heart-tugging troubadour, …
The hardcore troubadour talks Terraplane blues By Holly Gleason Steve Earle, like everyone it seems at “The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
SHELBY LYNNE Revelation Road Everso Records Shelby Lynne has always had a way of turning heartache into beauty, but on Revelation Road, she faces straight-on …
MIRANDA LAMBERT Four the Record RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert’s had one heckuva year: awards out the wazoo, officially becoming half of country music’s hottest power …
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Miranda Lambert has never been particularly interested in how other people did it. Sure, she first came …
STEVE EARLE I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive New West After the Grammy-winning Townes, Steve Earle’s homage to mentor/songwriting-standard-setter Townes Van Zandt, he …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM March/April 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 2) Hayes Carll opens the door and immediately apologizes for the two rambunctious dogs of uncertain breeding …
