Amanda Shires: “To the Sunset”
AMANDA SHIRES To the Sunset Silver Knife Records Now this is more like it. As lovely as it admittedly was, Amanda Shires’ last album, My …
AMANDA SHIRES To the Sunset Silver Knife Records Now this is more like it. As lovely as it admittedly was, Amanda Shires’ last album, My …
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT Live from the Ryman Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers Sometimes when you’ve got a stack of albums to review and you’re listening to one you’ve …
With new albums by Hayes Carll, Ryan Bingham, Flatland Cavalry, Robert Ellis, and Rob Baird all due for release in the first quarter alone, 2019 …
By Richard Skanse “What even is Americana?” That was the question that Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids put to song …
JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy Records One of the then-young songwriters that got tagged with the “next Bob Dylan!” hype in the …
By Lynne Margolis On the plane to Nashville, Charlie Sexton said he wasn’t going to win “the Buddy Miller Award” — the unofficial nickname for …
By Richard Skanse It’s mid-morning on Tuesday, July 18 — Day 2 of President Trump’s mildly ballyhooed “Made in America” week — and Todd Snider …
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT The Nashville Sound Thirty Tigers / Southeastern Records Perhaps nobody in the past decade or so is as central …
Consensus, schmensus! When we asked our core staff and contributors to put together their individual Top 10 lists of their favorite Americana releases of 2016, we kinda …
By Richard Skanse Move over, Donald — you are now only the second most surprising winner of 2016. Actually, as shocking as the November presidential election …