By Holly Gleason (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Sunny Sweeney can recall with vivid, multi- sensual clarity her very first musical moment of …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) The Tradewinds Social Club is not the kind of joint where lasting musical memories are …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) The seemingly always Nudie-suited Jim Lauderdale is more than just the sharpest-dressed man in Nashville: …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Noel McKay will never forget the day he opened that can of whoop-ass at the …
By Kelly Dearmore (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Mike Ryan is not, strictly speaking, a “newcomer” on the Texas country scene. The San …
MIKE RYAN Bad Reputation Rock & Soul Records The star of Mike Ryan’s new album, Bad Reputation, isn’t any one of its terrific songs, but …
SUNNY SWEENEY Provoked Thirty Tigers If the current pack of mainstream bro-country hit churners go the way of the dinosaur in the next few years …
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 …
LEE ANN WOMACK The Way I’m Livin’ Sugar Hill Given the freedom to finally make exactly the record she wanted to make after years of …
Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson among big winners at AMA Awards By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Fifteen years after the gathering …
