Jason Boland & the Stragglers: “Hard Times are Relative”
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Hard Time Are Relative Proud Souls Entertainment Oklahoma-born alt-country veteran Jason Boland specializes in hardcore honky-tonk with a rock ’n’ …
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Hard Time Are Relative Proud Souls Entertainment Oklahoma-born alt-country veteran Jason Boland specializes in hardcore honky-tonk with a rock ’n’ …
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 …
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 …
By Kelly Dearmore It’s been 15 years since the release of the Drive-By Truckers breakthrough fourth album, Southern Rock Opera. More than “just” an ambitious …
By Christian Wallace When the brain is asked to communicate “Southern rock” to the mind’s eye, it’s a safe bet that those first neural signals …
SLOBBERBONE Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today New West With all due respect to Gram Parsons (and all humble recognition of what grandiose …
By Kelly Dearmore “Ain’t it great to be alive? Ain’t it nice to be fighting’ on the winning side?” There’s always a ring of triumph to Shovels …
From Lone Star legends to breakout newcomers, these were our favorite Americana albums of 2014 … Richard Skanse, Editor 1. Robert Ellis, The Lights from …