Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives Edited by Holly Gleason The University of Texas Press By Richard Skanse …
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. …
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 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 Holly Gleason (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol 7 – issue 4) Legend has always cloaked Billy Joe Shaver: As an 8-year-old living with his grandmother, singing …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
JASON EADY AM Country Heaven Littoraria Records Jason Eady, a folkie with a bluesman’s grit in his groan, has never been one for the more …
By Cody Oxley (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) “I figured it’d go one way or the other — a big success or a horrible …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) When discussing their creative process, most songwriters struggle a bit. They’ll tell you whether they …
Various Artists The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams Egyptian Records/Columbia When Nora Guthrie first came up with the idea of having musicians breathe life into …
