By Holly Gleason “The land lady just realized what these guitars are worth, and she said she’d pay for it,” Steve Earle explains, getting back …
By Don McLeese Was Ralph Stanley ever young? We have no recorded evidence that he ever sounded young, that his vocal style was once boyish. …
SHAWN COLVIN & STEVE EARLE Colvin & Earle Fantasy Not since Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors has a song been as fraught with romantic frisson, tension and …
By Richard Skanse As any seasoned “Kerrvert” can tell you, there’s never really a question of will it rain at the Kerrville Folk Festival; it’s only …
By Richard Skanse As any self-respecting (and/or self-loathing, come pay-up time) vinyl junkie already knows, Record Store Day is Saturday, April 16. Out of the …
By Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
By Bill Ramsey Often maligned and closely associated with soft rock and the so-called “yacht rock” of such artists as Michael McDonald, the popular Southern …
When Lee Ann Womack released The Way I’m Livin’ in late September 2014, the award-winning country singer knew she and her producer/husband Frank Liddell had …
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 …
From full-on duo albums (Randy and Wade, Emmylou and Rodney, Willie and Merle) to one-off marquee pairings (Robert Earl and Lyle, Pat and Lyle, other …
