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 …
WALT WILKINS Streetlight Hwy 29 Records WALT WILKINS AND THE MYSTIQUEROS Watch It Shine Hwy 29 Records No one waxes on the glory of life …
By Cody Oxley Try not to judge singer-songwriter Parker McCollum by his cover. The 23-year-old “Limestone Kid” from Conroe is well aware of the fact …
By Cody Oxley Reared on Appalachian bluegrass, singer-songwriter Lew Card left his native Tennessee for Texas a decade ago, initially finding his niche picking mandolin …
Let’s be honest here: As fun as it is to compile (and peruse) these sorts of year-end deals, the fact is, the very idea of …
JOHN MORELAND High on Tulsa Heat Thirty Tigers/Old Omens There’s a reasonable saying that when the addiction goes, the addict remains. John Moreland’s latest, High …
MATT HARLAN Raven Hotel Berkalin Records Matt Harlan is a regular at the historic Anderson Fair venue in his native Houston, where quite often established …
LEW CARD Low Country Hi-Fi It’s Hard to Be Lew Card If you count Jason Eady and Sturgill Simpson amongst your favorite songwriters of the …
AARON STEPHENS Hard Times Straight Lines www.aaronstephensmusic.com The Hill Country has been abuzz over Aaron Stephens for a couple of years now, and his new …
AARON ALLAN Satisfaction Red Nickel Records Aaron Allan was just another songwriter I wasn’t familiar with the first time I heard him at Cheatham Street …
