By Kathleen O’Keefe (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) It’s been nearly a decade since Stoney LaRue released his first (now out of print) CD, …
By Rita Ballou (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) It’s that time of year again for revisiting, rehashing, looking ahead, and — if you’re like …
MIKE McCLURE BAND Fifty Billion 598 Recordings THE DAMN QUAILS Down the Hatch 598 Recordings Up the road and down a ways, tucked away in a …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Jan/Feb 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 1) Ask Steve Rice of No Justice to define the music his band makes, and …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Before Jason Boland and the Stragglers, before Stoney LaRue and Brandon Jenkins, and before …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) “This is going to keep me out of jail, isn’t it?” That was Cody Canada’s …
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Ranch Alto APEX Nashville/Proud Souls Ent/30 Tigers Springing out of Stillwater right around the same time as fellow Okie heavyweights …
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Miranda Lambert has never been particularly interested in how other people did it. Sure, she first came …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) To some, the Turnpike Troubadours seemed to come blazing out of nowhere to win …
CODY CANADA AND THE DEPARTED This Is Indian Land Underground Sound If things had played out differently — or, let’s face it, the way most …
