Curtis McMurtry has a famous father, whose father is even more famous. But it’s his mom who turned him on to “anything that wasn’t white dudes with guitars.” “That’s still great music to me,” clarifies McMurtry, himself a white dude with […]
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Last night’s Eagles concert at the Tacoma Dome began rather peculiarly, with just Don Henley and Glenn Frey taking the stage and picking out a pair of acoustic ditties, including “Saturday Night.” As the band’s undisputed leaders would quickly explain, […]
Thanks to the influence of massive male mainstream artists like Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith, country radio has become saturated with songs about hot women and hard booze — some good, more bad. So when a duo like the […]
There’s a lot of country music out there that sucks. That’s because there’s a lot of country music out there, period — so much that it’s not really a genre anymore; it’s a parallel musical universe unto itself. To wit, Rolling […]
Having two kids in two years can cause even a tenacious music fan to lose complete track of what’s new out there. Case in point: I didn’t hear of the spectacular Los Angeles quartet Dawes until I caught their September […]
If there’s but one certainty at this point in the 2013 musical calendar, it’s that Kacey Musgraves’ Same Trailer, Different Park will end up on more year-end best album lists than just about any other artist, irrespective of genre. Which […]
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