Back in 1990, The Rave-Ups ended their third album, Chance, with “Faint Sense of Success.” The title just about summed up the band’s career. After generating some initial buzz with 1985’s Town + Country and an appearance in the movie […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: As album releases slow down in December, we like to catch our breath and write about albums that came out earlier in the year that we didn’t get a chance to review but we think are worthy of […]
In “My Stomping Ground,” the driving, horn-stoked rocker that gives his new album its title, Dion is back in the Bronx, where as a youth he first fell in love with music, from doo-wop to the blues. He spies three […]
“Who will sing these working blues?” Ike Reilly asks at the start of his new album, Because the Angels. In a sense, this late-blooming Midwestern bard has been doing just that since his audacious 2001 debut, Salesmen and Racists, which […]
“I had to change my name to feel more like myself,” Rod Gator says from his home in Austin. He’s talking about his recent transformation from Rod Melancon, the name under which the bayou-bred rocker released all his previous […]
Bravo if you can deduce after hearing this debut, without knowing beforehand, that Sam Williams is the grandson of Hank Williams and the son of Hank Jr. His debut album, Glasshouse Children, displays none of the piercing hillbilly twang of […]
On 2016’s Scofflaw, Clint Morgan dove into the ethos of the American outlaw, using a savvy mix of self-penned numbers and non-originals to go beneath the myths and legends of figures from Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, and Clyde Barrow […]
They were once “More a Legend Than a Band.” That’s what happens when your debut album’s release is delayed nearly 20 years and your principal members in the meantime go on to great critical success as solo acts. Since […]
Say this for Miranda Lambert: The country superstar is not afraid to share the spotlight. Whether teaming with Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe in Pistol Annies or, more recently, cavorting with Elle King, Lambert seems to revel in collaboration. Maybe […]
When Todd Snider formed the Hard Working Americans, his aim was to merge the jamband ethos with that of the singer-songwriter tradition he came out of, putting a new emphasis on the instrumental aspects of his songs. One of the […]
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