When I Come Around Lee Ann Womack finds her way from country music star to Americana free bird.
By Richard Skanse (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Lee Ann Womack won’t name names, let alone pinpoint the scene of the crime. But …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Lee Ann Womack won’t name names, let alone pinpoint the scene of the crime. But …
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 j. poet (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) “I come from a gospel family,” Ruthie Foster says from her home in Austin, reflecting …
By Rob Patterson (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) “I can’t wait for the fire puns,” says Austin singer-songwriter Shelley King, anticipating the reaction …
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) A funny thing happened on the way to completing Jess Klein’s most recent album, Learning …
THE BELLE SOUNDS Black Stone www.thebellesounds.com The Belle Sounds have one helluva sound. It’s a vintage Rumours-esque harmonic lushness over precise, Shins-like shiny grooves. Black …
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 …
CHRISTINE ALBERT Everything’s Beautiful Now MoonHouse Records There’s a time — and music — for Texas two-stepping and knocking back cold longnecks in Texas dance …
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 …
Robyn Ludwick, accompanied by John “Lunchmeat” Ludwick on bass and Bill Chambers on lap steel, performing “She’ll Get the Roses” from her album Little Rain at …