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Posted in Contemporary Country, Country on May 4th, 2013
“Monroe is enamored with tradition, pushing fiddles to the foreground and sometimes succumbing to the smoky sway of a slow dance at a dancehall, but she’s not a retro-singer, she’s a modern girl hauling old ways into the present. This blend of contemporary attitudes and classic sounds is insinuating and addictive, particularly because at nine [...]
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country on May 4th, 2013
“Kacey Musgraves could easily be contemporary country’s next big thing. She’s a sharp, detailed songwriter with a little bit of an edge… Musgraves has a sense of humor, too, and all of these traits add up to make Same Trailer Different Park more than a collection of songs just aiming for the country charts.” –All [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Country, Hard Rock, Indie, Rock/Pop, Roots Rock on May 4th, 2013
“Jennings truly came into his own on Family Man, but on The Other Life, he pushes the boundaries further, offering some of the finest songs he’s written to date. He fully realizes here what he’s been attempting all along. Box these sounds whichever way you want to, but they are all Shooter Jennings, and as [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Country, Indie, Rock/Pop on May 4th, 2013
“The whole album accumulates in a powerful, meditative way, and its themes are less about drinking and trying to forget the past than they are about making peace with the past and trying to remember it and use it as a spark and a springboard to the future. Honky Tonk is country facing forward informed [...]
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country, Rock/Pop on May 4th, 2013
“This album, In Time, is…a further step away from anything resembling a mainstream country release, incorporating not only the Tex-Mex and Cuban influences the band was known for, but also the rhythms of polkas, tangos, and all manner of approaches, making them closer to a band like Los Lobos than to Tim McGraw or Jason [...]
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country on May 4th, 2013
“Luke Bryan’s Spring Break…Here to Party is a soundtrack for a rollicking, rowdy spring break… [T]his is just breezy fun, a collection of cheerful drinking songs that never threaten to careen out of control.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country on Mar 25th, 2013
“Despite its wide range of material and experimentation, this is the pop record McGraw has always wanted to make. He packs in a little of everything here… [A] solid and ambitious recording.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
“Most of these songs aren’t new — Kristofferson says he writes very little now — but they are unheard, making their recorded debut here. It makes one wonder just how many other gems he has in a desk drawer or on some dusty cassette tape. Based on the soul-satisfying evidence of Feeling Mortal, one can [...]
“The Lumineers, a folk-rock trio out of Denver, Colorado, have a pretty interesting sound, an Americana mesh of folk, rock, and gospel that is similar in tone to the Waterboys, say, or an alt-folk version of Bob Dylan circa Desire, thanks in no small part to Neyla Pekarek’s inventive cello.” –All Music Guide Check Our [...]
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Posted in Contemporary Folk, Country, Folk, Jazz, Rock/Pop on Feb 23rd, 2013
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“Because of her high soprano vocals, Lindi Ortega is often compared to Dolly Parton, but her style couldn’t be more different. Parton imbues everything she sings, even her most poignant songs, with an almost breathless optimism. Ortega’s stock in trade is the darker side of life, specializing in love songs full of heartache, betrayal, and [...]
“Dickinson isn’t showboating his considerable guitar skills here, but instead is offering a portrait of his heritage — and his compositional and arranging chops — inside a music that is every bit as haunted and mysterious as the north Mississippi hill country he calls home.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Posted in Country on Feb 13th, 2013
“[H]e has crisp, bright, relentless melodies designed to win over any audience. Hunter Hayes may be pure Nashville product but he believes in what he’s selling, so it’s hard not to smile along as he hawks his wares.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Country, Indie, Rock/Pop on Feb 13th, 2013
“Ultimately, you can listen to Temple Beautiful for the superficial catchiness of its tunes, Prophet’s slashed guitar chords and his searching, keening vocals and have a good time. And if you want to, you can listen more closely to what he’s getting at on this album, and experience the album as one man’s alternative history [...]
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country, Rock/Pop on Feb 12th, 2013
“A country music maverick, [Rodney Crowell]‘s written some great songs, been a top-line country star with videos and the whole enchilada, was married to Rosanne Cash for over a dozen years, and has collaborated with Emmylou Harris and countless others as a songwriter, musician, and producer….[T]he songs on Kin are smart, literary, lyrical, full of [...]
Posted in Bluegrass, Contemporary Country, Country, Folk on Jan 30th, 2013
“It’s a remarkably wide range and it’s effortlessly eclectic, with the Dixie Chicks bringing it all together with their attitude and understated musicality — as debuts go (and this does count as a debut), they rarely get better than this.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
“For The Majestic Silver Strings, Miller recruited guitarists Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Greg Leisz to join him on a program of classic country songs and a couple of originals. …The program is a revisioning of tunes from country’s canon that sound timeless against the original material. … The Majestic Silver Strings is one of [...]
Posted in Contemporary Country, Country, Soundtracks, Television on Jan 10th, 2013
“T-Bone Burnett is Nashville‘s music producer. He enlisted some of Music City’s finest songwriters and the help of longtime friend Buddy Miller to co-produce (and perform on) most of the songs here. The end result is a collection that provides a compelling argument that contemporary country music doesn’t need to divorce itself from its history… [...]
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Folk, Indie, Rock/Pop on Dec 18th, 2012
“[A]miable, quaint, mischievous, sad, and disarmingly sincere. …[A] relatively simple, country-folk record, albeit one with a college degree, and when it connects it hits that sweet spot between joy and despair that has served as the target for many a dusty brimmed singer/songwriter over the years. The Avett Brothers aren’t rewriting the book, they’re just [...]