By Don McLeese There are no losers here. From the start, even before I knew who the 64 slotted contenders were, my critical pick to …
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 Mike Ethan Messick Recent converts to the independent Texas country-rock movement might not know this, but for a stretch in the late ‘90s going …
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Single Mothers Vagrant Records After the old-time country stylings of his 2008 debut, The Good Life, Justin Townes Earle has diverged from …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) Eighteen years and 14 albums down the line from their formation, the Drive-By Truckers have …
By Andrew Dansby (LSM July/Aug 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 4) Six years ago Jason Isbell had a new band and a new career, and he …
By Spencer Griffith (LSM Jan/Feb 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 1) The doctors laughed at first, until they saw that I was serious,” recounts American Aquarium …
By Jason Isbell (Oct/Nov 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 5) I was 10 years old when I first heard “Layla” on the local classic rock radio …
By Eric Hisaw (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) I was a 14-year-old fledgling guitar player that night in 1987 when I piled into a …
Lucinda Williams, Robert Plant, Buddy Miller and more honored By Lynne Margolis (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) At previous Americana Honors and Awards shows, …
