Hayes Carll is a Texas singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist who puts his own folk twist to the regular old rockin’ Texas folk country. He sounds like Steve Earle and his melodies are like John Prine. He is a younger version of Buddy Miller. His music is Americana roots. He is a Texan country troubadour type with …
Mary Gauthier (pronounced ‘Go-shay’ ya’ll) releases Mercy Now, her fourth full-length album & Lost Highway debut. Mercy Now features 10 songs overflowing with beauty, darkness, raw emotion & unflinching honesty, from a truly compelling artist. Gauthier’s life has taken her on a path through devastation & despair. Her songwriting is a direct reflection of personal life experience. Mary …
Ryan Bingham knows a thing or two about pain. He learned the emotional aspect early in life, when shuttling between small towns and family members in the hardscrabble ranching communities of West Texas and New Mexico — and became wellacquainted with the physical facets during his years on the Southwestern rodeo circuit.That ache is palpable in the grooves …
At long last, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price, three of the original country outlaws, have come together to record, Last of the Breed, a collection of 22 classic country/western hits on a two CD or two LP set. LOTB is produced by the legendary Fred Foster, and features special guests Kris Kristofferson and Vince Gill. The …
2009 album from the Texas-bred troubadour. Road House Sun is a hardscrabble collection that’s at once unblinkingly personal and unapologetically political – the latter a new and bracingly vivid addition to Bingham’s palette. Produced, like its predecessor, by one-time Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford, Road House Sun manages to capture a feel that’s rootsy without being …
With such country legends as Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Eddy Arnold, and Ernest Tubb recording Cindy Walker’s songs, a mid-century Texas dance floor could have stayed packed on a soundtrack of nothing but her music. You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker could be likened to a country version of Stardust, Willie’s famous 1978 collection of …
UK pressing of the 2008 debut album from the British singer songwriter. Johnny Flynn’s music is brimming over with heart, soul and intelligence. Drawing on diverse influences – The Pixies, Vaughn Williams and anti-folk pioneer Dianne Cluck are all name checked on his Myspace page – Johnny draws on a century’s worth of Folk, Blues and Country to …