By Richard Skanse The Texas music community awoke Thursday morning to the terrible news that one of its brightest young stars, singer-songwriter Kylie Rae Harris, …
BILLY F GIBBONS The Big Bad Blues Concord Records As the main man behind the wheel of ZZ Top, Billy F Gibbons has enjoyed no …
STRYKER BROTHERS Burn Band Scriptorium Rex So anyhow, I think it’s fair to let you know that Luke the Drifter was Hank Williams, Hank Wilson …
By Richard Skanse As the guys from No Dry County told writer Thomas Mooney when he interviewed them for an episode of his New Slang Podcast back in …
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Hard Time Are Relative Proud Souls Entertainment Oklahoma-born alt-country veteran Jason Boland specializes in hardcore honky-tonk with a rock ’n’ …
RED SHAHAN Culberson County 7013 Records/Thirty Tigers One of the brightest alt-country debuts in recent years, Red Shahan’s 2015 release Men & Coyotes was a …
By Richard Skanse “What the hell am I doing up here in Kansas City?” Anytime Pat Green sang those words during one of his concerts …
By Madisun K. Geis At times self-deprecating and always authentic, John Baumann is a storyteller through and through. With the release of his second full-length album, Proving …
COURTNEY PATTON What It’s Like to Fly Alone www.courtneypatton.com For all the ways in which mainstream country music and its more indie-minded alternatives compare, contrast, …
By Richard Skanse Talk about jumping right into the deep end … When Hector Saldana left his longtime gig at the San Antonio Express-News to start …
