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Pistol Annies, Annie Up…
In his 2012 memoir Waging Heavy Peace, Neil Young gave a rave review to t… more »
Patty Griffin, American Kid…
Patty Griffin’s seventh album — and her first collection of n… more »
Luke Winslow-King, The Coming…
The 29-year-old singer/songwriter, slide guitarist and eMusic Selects alu… more »
Various Artists, Way To Blue …
As Nick Drake’s producer in the early 1970s, Joe Boyd helped the le… more »
Steve Earle & The Dukes …
Except for the fact that it contains 12 brand-new songs, The Low Highway … more »
Numbers And Letters, Guns Und…
Austin alt-country outfit Numbers And Letters open their full-length debu… more »
Jessica Pratt, Jessica Pratt…
Jessica Pratt’s self-titled debut is the kind of record that tends … more »
The Milk Carton Kids, The Ash…
You can’t get far into writing a review of The Milk Carton Kids wit… more »
Anais Mitchell and Jefferson …
One of today’s most creative and authentic rising songwriters, Anai… more »
Olof Arnalds, Sudden Elevatio…
The most attractive thing about Ólöf Arnalds’s music is… more »
Son Volt, Honky Tonk
“There’s a reckless side of tradition, a push of the tide hav… more »
Ashley Monroe, Like a Rose…
Ashley Monroe is best known as Hippie Annie, one fringe-dressed third of … more »
Caitlin Rose, The Stand-In…
Given her avowed love of old Hollywood glamour (just check out that album… more »
Lee Hazlewood, Trouble Is A L…
A grouchy Texan with a fathoms-deep voice, Lee Hazlewood was one of Ameri… more »
The Mavericks, In Time…
At this point, it’s flat-out inaccurate to refer to the Mavericks a… more »
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Cro…
“This is the culmination of a 40-year conversation,” Rodney C… more »
Samantha Crain, Kid Face…
Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain has always sounded like an old soul, her… more »
Kelly Willis and Bruce Robiso…
Married for 17 years, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison have kept their reco… more »
Richard Thompson, Electric…
Nearly everyone is found guilty in a Richard Thompson song. Take the horn… more »
Tim McGraw, Two Lanes of Free…
If God made old country roads for driving and dreaming, as is claimed on … more »
Frontier Ruckus, Eternity of …
A strip-mall’s worth of stores occupies the lyrics of Matthew Milia… more »
Kris Kristofferson, Feeling M…
When Rick Rubin trekked down to record Johnny Cash in his living room bac… more »
Buck Owens, Honky Tonk Man: B…
Originally recorded for the notoriously corny hillbilly sketch comedy ser… more »
Don Rich, Don Rich Sings Geor…
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Don Rich played lead guitar in Buck … more »
