Heartworn Highways: Enlightenment, endarkenment, resurrection and redneck mother love
By Judy Hubbard (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) It’s 6:30 a.m. on July 30, 2011, somewhere in Massachusetts, and I can’t sleep, wondering …
Posts tagged Americana
Sin City Social Club: Nashville Skyline
How Music City charmed my Americana heart By Shilah Morrow (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Like so many in our community, I’m sitting here …
LSM Cover Story: Robert Earl Keen Don’t Fence Me In: Trail-blazing, band-leading Robert Earl Keen never asked to be the king of the Texas music hill or even a household name. From "No Kinda Dancer" to "Ready for Confetti," he’s always dreamed of a bigger piece of sky.
By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Are you a hat, or a Robert Earl Keen? According to Rich Brotherton, that was …
Venue Spotlight: The Mercy Lounge & Cannery Ballroom
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Mercy Lounge & The Cannery Ballroom One Cannery Row, Nashville, Tenn., 37203 615-251-3020 / www.mercylounge.com …
Mr. Record Man: Robert Earl Keen
By Mike Ethan Messick (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Hard as it may be to believe in the hyper-connected, niche-friendly world of today, there …
Stuff that works Inside the making of "This One's for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark"
By Brian T. Atkinson (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Lyle Lovett suddenly stops strumming, glances around at the other players assembled with him …
Border Wave El Paso's Dirty River Boys make their mark
By Doug Pullen (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) What’s in a name? When you’re El Paso’s Dirty River Boys, it’s all about evoking …
Turnpike Troubadours: On a roll and bound for glory Oklahoma's hottest rising Americana act regroups with Mike McClure to record follow-up to their 2010 breakthrough, "Diamonds & Gasoline"
By Laurie Barker James (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) To some, the Turnpike Troubadours seemed to come blazing out of nowhere to win …
The Greencards: “The Brick Album”
THE GREENCARDS The Brick Album Darling Street Records After three releases on Dualtone Records and one on Sugar Hill, the Australia-to-Austin-to-Nashville migrants the Greencards funded …
Eric Hisaw: “Ghost Stories”
ERIC HISAW Ghost Stories www.erichisaw.com Austin’s Eric Hisaw (originally from Las Cruces, N.M.) has knocked out a handful of solid roots-rock releases over the last …
