Maeri Ferguson

It takes a certain constitution to make it in a road-dog outfit like slacker-twangers The Pink Stones, and after some turnover, frontman Hunter Pinkston seems to have found the sweet spot with his current lineup. The band’s latest, Thank the Lord…it’s The Pink Stones, finds the fivesome

When Kathleen Edwards released 2020’s excellent Total Freedom after nearly a decade’s pause in new music, it was like meeting an artist for the first time. Its follow-up, Billionaire, on the other hand, feels more like she never left. With Jason Isbell and Gena Johnson at the producing

What happens when you take the synth out of your favorite pop banger, the warm crinkle of an iconic vocal from a soulful lover’s plea, or the sass out of a disco country kiss-off? The thing with cover songs is that if you’re removing the thing that made

For an artist to appeal to masses and remain true to themselves, to nurture their weirdness and still find a sizable audience that embraces it, is a rarity in country music. Call it the Sturgill Simpson effect. Or better yet, call it the Tyler Childers effect. Amid the overwrought and

“Here is the thing / That I’ve known from the start,” sings Patty Griffin on “Back at the Start,” the simmering opening track of her new record Crown of Roses. “You might lose everything / Spend years in the dark but / It isn't the end / We're just