“Highlights include British vocal powerhouse Adele (“Rolling in the Deep”), dubstep newcomer Skrillex (“Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites”), bearded hard rockers Foo Fighters (“Walk”), country-pop giants Taylor Swift (“Siren”) and Lady Antebellum (“Just a Kiss”), indie folk hitmakers Bon Iver (“Holocene”) and Mumford & Sons (“The Cave”), and stadium rock veterans Coldplay (“Paradise”).” –All Music [...]
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“Vince Gill received one of the greatest gifts of his professional life when he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011. One listen to Guitar Slinger, his first record in five years, makes it easy to comprehend why: he has carried the genre forward to embrace the rest of popular music [...]
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Posted in Alt-Country, Country Rock, Rock/Pop on Mar 8th, 2012
“Eleven Eleven…reaffirms [Alvin's] status as one of the best and most distinctive American songwriters alive. There are few artists who can match Alvin’s gift for creating vivid characters and bringing their lives to life through music, and Eleven Eleven finds him near the top of his game as a tunesmith, while also showing off his [...]
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“Like prime Parton, the 12 songs here remain unfailingly upbeat while Lindi warbles about often woefully downbeat subjects, usually involving her love-life…keepers of country’s tragi-comic flame will clasp Lindi firmly to their bosoms.” –BBC Music Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Country on Jan 27th, 2012
“Eschewing the musical standards of her 2001 debut, Let Yourself Go and the Christian AOR of 2005′s As I Am (although the latter’s “Borrowed Angels” does appear here in a slightly altered version) sees the versatile singer/actress instead go back to her roots on 13 tracks inspired by the country songs she used to sing [...]
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Posted in Country on Jan 27th, 2012
“Campbell is a titan with a legacy that begins before he started to record solo albums, so if anyone deserves to craft a career-capping final record it is he, even if this opportunity is bittersweet, tainted by the knowledge that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s sometime during its recording… it pays honor to his legacy [...]
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Posted in Gospel on Jan 27th, 2012
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Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Rock/Pop on Jan 27th, 2012
“American Goldwing is an all-around great listen — one perfectly suited for late fall nights on the porch or holiday road trips — and it may even be the band’s best record to date.” –American Songwriter Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Country on Jan 7th, 2012
“Keith is no longer in the flashy phase of his career…he’s settled into this well-weathered skin on Clancy’s Tavern, winding up with his best album in many a moon.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Country on Jan 7th, 2012
“There’s no fuss to his performance. He leans into the most desperate lines and nearly lets his voice crack, all in the service of the thing he’s always been best at—making a heavyweight song hit home.” –American Songwriter Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Country on Jan 7th, 2012
“Brad Paisley is so quintessentially a country star, it’s almost as if he has been engineered by twang-happy research scientists or tobacco-chewing aliens to encapsulate everything great about the genre. He’s a sentimentalist, a rocker, a traditionalist, a singer of gospel and goofy novelty songs, a proponent of family and fleshly values, and a flame-shooting [...]
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Posted in Contemporary Country, Country on Dec 9th, 2011
“Miranda Lambert struck gold with her third album, Revolution, which sent two songs to the top of the country charts. Four the Record looks to continue her winning streak, mixing sassy country-pop with a handful of rustic, bluegrass-influenced songs.”–All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Country, Holiday on Dec 8th, 2011
“Six years after the first volume, Ricky Skaggs returns with A Skaggs Family Christmas Vol. 2, a ten-song CD that features both studio and live recordings. A bonus DVD, A Skaggs Family Christmas Live, is also included in the package, which presents the family’s holiday concert filmed live in at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.”–All [...]
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Posted in Blues, Country, Gospel, Soul on Sep 14th, 2011
“It’s gospel. It’s blues. It’s about love and redemption, and how each needs the other.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Rock/Pop on Sep 14th, 2011
“The big, beautiful voice of k.d. lang swoops, purrs and soars through the 10 songs on “Sing It Loud” like an overgrown Labrador that has slipped its leash to run loose through the park on a gorgeous spring weekend.” –Los Angeles Times Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Bluegrass, Country on Sep 14th, 2011
“Union Station’s arrangements, immaculate and drumless, hint at old-timey roots without a glimmer of purism, and they never sugarcoat the sorrow.” –The New York Times Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Alt-Country, Country Rock, Rock/Pop on Sep 12th, 2011
“The thirst for deep-rut Southern grooves is particularly insatiable this time out. Go-Go Boots is a “vibe” record for sure — you could call it Muscle Shoals derived, or the final realization of the country-soul sound the band have been flirting with for years, but to me it simply sounds lived in. From the snaking [...]
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Posted in Alt Rock, Bluegrass, Folk, Indie, Rock/Pop on Sep 12th, 2011
““City of Refuge’’ couches Washburn’s virtuosity — both as a singer and picker — in a contemporary context that’s equal parts indie folk, atmospheric twang, and rootsy pop… Washburn ended up making a modern classic, a folk album for people who claim they don’t like a such thing.” –The Boston Globe Check Our Catalog
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Posted in Alt-Country, Country on Aug 29th, 2011
“According to Steve Earle’s liner notes for I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive, these 11 songs are all ‘about mortality in one way or another.’ Certainly the title — after a song by Hank Williams (also the title of Earle’s new novel) — reflects this, but these songs bear that out in spades.”–All [...]
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Posted in Country on Aug 29th, 2011
“Bingham and his Dead Horses create a sound planted deeply in folk, country, blues, and roots rock. These lyrically direct songs reflect lost, desperate, displaced individuals, all dreaming the same dark dream and all growing tenser with the times — and some fall over the edge.”–All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
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