ALBUM REVIEW: Rockabilly Patriarch Carl Perkins Shines Bright on ‘Some Things Never Change’ In its mid-‘50s heyday, Sun Records launched the careers of some high-wattage talents, among them Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison. Though not the first name that comes to mind when you think of the revolutionary Memphis label, Carl Perkins got his start there, too.
ALBUM REVIEW: Jonny Fritz Is Still Goofing — And Still Getting to the Point on ‘Debbie Downers’ Jonny Fritz long ago established himself as a kind of reliable clown of country music, recording genuinely great songs that always toed the line of absurdity. A master of people-watching and zooming in on the funniest details of the mundane—the gravity of trash pick-up day, the characters that frequent
ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘All Hat’, Joshua Hedley More Than Plays the Part All hat, no cattle is a term that is often synonymous with “poser” or “imitator,” used to call out those unable to fill certain boots. With the recent rise of Western wear producing a fleet of concrete cowpokes, and as more cross-genre stars try on country music for size, the