AltWeeklies Wire
Charlie Parr: Time Out of Mindnew
Charlie Parr talks Piedmont blues, monophonic recording and internal combustion cuisine
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
How the Quest for a Waylon Jennings T-shirt Ended with Owning the Legend's Tour Busnew
Fred Wickham has two types of friends: the ones who thought he was crazy around this time last year — and the ones who thought what he did was the coolest thing ever.
Jason Aldean Keeps Using What He's Gotnew
Thanks to a string of successful singles, Aldean has spent much of the past two years touring with two of the biggest acts in country music: Rascal Flatts in 2007 and Tim McGraw this summer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
08-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: country, Jason Aldean
The Moondoggies: Wary of the Buzznew
The group's debut, Don't Be a Stranger, has been so immediately well-received that within 48 hours of cracking open my advance copy, no less than half a dozen people called, e-mailed, or texted me with some variation of "Holy shit! Have you heard that Moondoggies record?"
Seattle Weekly |
Hannah Levin |
08-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Laura Cantrell is Not the Least Bit Rock and Rollnew
Cantrell's path to a career in country was hardly straight, though her stint as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville was probably useful.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
08-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gary Allan's Music Evolves an Emotional Edgenew
Last year's Living Hard followed, highlighted by the hit "Watching Airplanes," in which Allan lays on his car hood at the runway's edge, watching the lights go overhead, knowing his baby's gone, 30,000 miles above, and a million miles away.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
08-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?new
Unlike the Outlaws or Lovett/Griffith/Earle cadre, this bunch doesn't socialize regularly or share a common background. They're all Texans, indisputably, but even how much that has to do with their current success is open for debate.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
08-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
With the Velvet Lapelles, Lucy Michelle Brings Heavenly Ukelele Music to the Twin Citiesnew
With a sound that combines dashes of old-fashioned country, folk, and polka with otherworldly tinges of Gypsy and flamenco, Michelle's music appeals just as much to the NPR crowd as it does to those of the rock-club persuasion.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Andrea Myers |
07-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Eric Hisaw Explores a Childhood Fascination with the Carnie Lifestylenew
The glowing 13-track pseudo-concept record--Hisaw's lengthiest release to date--blends an old-school mix of rock, country, Americana, and pop.
San Antonio Current |
Clint Hale |
07-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
After Work with a Fountain and Pumpkin, America Returns to the Roadnew
Part of what's interesting about the studio recordings for Here & Now is they involve an unlikely collaboration with co-producers Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and James Iha, the former guitarist with Smashing Pumpkins -- two artists associated with modern rock, not the kind of relaxed country pop for which America is known.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
07-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ninja Gun Remains Southern While Avoiding the 'Southern Rock' Archtypesnew
Songs on the new album display the classic earmarks of jangly Southern pop odes to provincial ennui. Which is something the son of a South Georgia pig farmer knows a few things about.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
06-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Swindles on Songwriting, Senioritis, and the Nebulous Nature of Americananew
With a family, a day job, and 46 years under his black cowboy hat, Mitch Webb — particularly when it’s a gig-free week — doesn’t get out as often as he once did.
San Antonio Current |
Clint Hale |
06-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Country-Country of Lady Antebellumnew
The trio (two coiffed dudes and one done-up blondie in heels), offers just what you’d expect from their self-titled, debut album—soaring, Nashville-style power ballads engineered with a cunning pop/rock patina, all the better for wooing markets of all geographies. And woo they do.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
05-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'One Hell of a Ride' Encapsulates Willie Nelson in Five Hoursnew
For a recording career that began more than a half-century ago in the studios of Pleasanton radio station KBOP, where Nelson recorded "When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song," his body of work acquits itself quite well in today's post-album digital age.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
05-07-2008 |
Reviews
Underrated Country Star Gary Allan Turn Pain into Artnew
He's underrated within the world of mainstream country, where he plays small theaters or opens for lesser artists like Rascal Flatts, despite being one of the handful of the best record-makers that genre's seen in the last half-decade or so.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
04-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
