Wade Bowen: “Solid Ground”
WADE BOWEN Solid Ground Thirty Tigers Few artists carry the torch for the modern Texas version of independent country music as reliably and enthusiastically as …
Posts tagged Angaleena Presley
Q&A: Robert Ellis The Houston honky-tonker turned fearless genre bender on songwriting, recording, taking the high road and challenging the rules of “authenticity”
By Richard Skanse All these years later, the schoolyard taunt still haunts Robert Ellis, needling at his self confidence like a splinter burrowed deep inside …
In Profile: Angaleena Presley "Holler Annie" gets her due with American Middle Class
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Jan/Feb 2015/vol 8 – issue 1) When country music’s Pistol Annies made their television debut in the spring of 2011, a …
LSM Playlist: Best of Americana 2014
From Lone Star legends to breakout newcomers, these were our favorite Americana albums of 2014 … Richard Skanse, Editor 1. Robert Ellis, The Lights from …
Sunny finds the light Three years after cracking the country Top 10 with the majors, Sunny Sweeney returns to her feisty independent roots with the bold, confident Provoked.
By Holly Gleason (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Sunny Sweeney can recall with vivid, multi- sensual clarity her very first musical moment of …
Sunny Sweeney: “Provoked”
SUNNY SWEENEY Provoked Thirty Tigers If the current pack of mainstream bro-country hit churners go the way of the dinosaur in the next few years …
Miranda Lambert The true heart and real deal behind the Platinum superstar
By Holly Gleason (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol 7 – issue 4) “That’s not anywhere in the So You Want to Be a Country Singer Handbook,” Miranda …
Pistol Annies: “Annie Up”
PISTOL ANNIES Annie Up RCA It would be easy to dismiss the Pistol Annies as the white-trash trio project for three-time Country Music Association Album …
Rawhide & Velvet: The 2011 Year in Ballou Bragogram
By Rita Ballou (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) It’s that time of year again for revisiting, rehashing, looking ahead, and — if you’re like …
Q&A: Miranda Lambert The unrepentant Texas maverick of mainstream country chases her breakthrough Revolution album with a double-barrel blast of new music — and a brand new band, to boot.
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 …
