By Richard Skanse “What even is Americana?” That was the question that Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids put to song …
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 Lynne Margolis On the plane to Nashville, Charlie Sexton said he wasn’t going to win “the Buddy Miller Award” — the unofficial nickname for …
By Richard Skanse Over the course of his two-and-a-half-hour, 25-song set last Thursday night in Austin, Rodney Crowell dipped just four times into his pre-1990 …
RODNEY CROWELL Close Ties New West Sixteen years on from the release of his career-rebooting The Houston Kid, Rodney Crowell’s second wind has now been …
NIKKI LANE Highway Queen New West Nikki Lane is a post-modern girl, and with all that sangfroid, she’s more the sweetheart of the heavy metal …
By Scott Schinder Veteran singer-songwriter Greg Trooper passed away on January 15, two days after his 61st birthday, following a year-and-a-half battle with pancreatic cancer. …
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 Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
From Lone Star legends to breakout newcomers, these were our favorite Americana albums of 2014 … Richard Skanse, Editor 1. Robert Ellis, The Lights from …
