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Hearts of Oak Take Outlaw Country Into Shoegaze Territory with 'Moves'

Hearts of Oak Take Outlaw Country Into Shoegaze Territory with 'Moves'

Portland, Oregon has its fair share of country and Americana-style bands – perhaps more than most people might think – but one of the standouts has long been an outfit called Hearts of Oak. On their fourth album, Moves, the band ventures into more psychedelic landscape as they fuse country, folk and

The Underdogs of Seventies Country Rock

The Underdogs of Seventies Country Rock

In the late Sixties Gram Parsons came up with the term Cosmic American Music as a more eloquent and hippie-dippie way to describe the type of music he was making. Gram despised the term “country-rock” and felt his term was a more accurate if not generalized way to sum up

Whiskey Shivers Bring "Trashgrass" To The People

Whiskey Shivers Bring "Trashgrass" To The People

Donning his signature shoeless and shirtless attire, fiddler and singer Bobby Fitzgerald carries a playful country sensibility as he swaps stories of the road with his bandmates. The members of Whiskey Shivers are backstage at Austin’s Red 7, ready to open for the Legendary Shack Shakers. The mood is