Posts tagged Americana

SETH WALKER Times Can Change Roe Records Talk about understated. Former Austinite Seth Walker, who moved to Nashville a few years ago, has gone elemental …

TODD SNIDER Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers Todd Snider recording an album of Jerry Jeff Walker …

WALT WILKINS Plenty Ride Records Walt Wilkins bookends Plenty with a Zen mantra (“Just Be”) and a psalm for gratitude embraced (“Between Midnight & Day”). …

JOHN FULLBRIGHT From the Ground Up Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers How good is John Fullbright’s anxiously anticipated From the Ground Up? (Yes, anticipated — at least …

MATT HARLAN & THE SENTIMENTALS Bow and Be Simple Berkalin Records There’s something distinctly American about the sort of dusty, country-tinged folk that Matt Harlan …

GRANT PEEPLES Prior Convictions Gaterbone Records 104 Grant Peeples is clearly a man of deeply held convictions … and cojones. Both — or should that …

MASTERSONS Birds Fly South New West The Mastersons — the band — are Eleanor Whitmore and Chris Masterson, a Brooklyn-based, Texas born-and-raised married couple of …

By Eric Hisaw (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) I was a 14-year-old fledgling guitar player that night in 1987 when I piled into a …

By Scott Schinder (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Alejandro Escovedo’s new Big Station continues the incredible creative roll that began with 2006’s The Boxing …

By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) “I buried my heart, I was born again with 17 lies and one night of sin …