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 …
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Diamonds & Gasoline Thirty Tigers/Onward Music (2010) Whether you’re talking about the Grammys themselves or some Saturday battle-of-the-bands at the dive bar down …
By Richard Skanse No one could ever mistake Neil Young for an “unknown” — let alone unappreciated — legend in his own time. But a …
STURGILL SIMPSON A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Atlantic If you happened to catch the social media hubbub over Sturgill Simpson’s “In Bloom” video in late …
By Chris Mosser Wednesday, April 6, 2016 was one of those days when something almost imperceptible, but somehow unmistakably palpable, changed. A dramatic shift in …
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
By Richard Skanse Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard, who charted 40 top 10 singles over the course of his legendary career, passed away …
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 Michael Corcoran We praise our pioneers who’ve found subtle new ways to play their instruments, but rare is the one who invents a new …
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 …
