Sunday Selections: October 23, 2016
It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas, and it isn’t even Halloween yet.
Steve Earle
Sunday Selections: October 16, 2016
We’re only 23 days away from the election, y’all.
Sunday Selections: July 31, 2016
You say, “tomato,” we say… actually, we’ll let Margo Price fill in the rest.
Sunday Selections: June 26, 2016
2016 has claimed yet another icon in “Doctor” Ralph Stanley.
Sunday Selections: June 12, 2016
What would the Dixie Chicks’ first US tour in a decade be without at least a little bit of controversy?
Sunday Selections: May 8, 2016
It’s going down this week, and Keith Urban is the one yelling, “Timber,” with Pitbull.
Sunday Selections: April 17, 2016
After what seems like months of ever-louder hype, Sturgill Simpson’s latest album finally arrived.
Album Review: Buddy Miller & Friends, Cayamo Sessions at Sea
With a steady job as executive music producer for ABC-TV’s Nashville, as well as a hectic schedule in his own studio, Buddy Miller does not often release a new album. When he finally does, it’s bound to be excellent. Buddy Miller & Friends: Cayamo Sessions at Sea features Miller supporting some of Americana’s top artists. It demonstrates not only his sublime artistry, but his talent of nudging great singers into even greater performances.
Album Review: Allison Moorer, Down to Believing
Since making her debut with 1997’s Alabama Song, Allison Moorer has been one of country music’s most consistent albums artists. The singer-songwriter has three unqualified masterpieces to her credit— the flawless stone-country heartbreak cycle of The Hardest Part, the politically charged The Duel, and the somber, heady Southern Gothic of Crows. Despite having those triumphs— and other excellent albums like Alabama Song and Good Fortune— to her credit, Moorer’s latest effort, Down to Believing, is perhaps the finest album of her career because it finds Moorer challenging both her singing and her songwriting voices to plumb truly difficult emotional depths.