JOURNAL EXCERPT: One Guitar’s Journey from Clarence White to Tony Rice to Billy Strings and Beyond
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BONUS TRACKS: Beyoncé Swings the Spotlight to Country Music
I don’t know if you heard, but there was a big football game last weekend. But the real big news, obviously, was Beyoncé dropping word of a new album via a Verizon ad that aired during the game. And as foretold by her recent public fashion choices and confirmed
ALBUM REVIEW: Lola Kirke Leans All the Way In on ‘Country Curious’ EP
Lola Kirke has long been dipping a toe in country music, but beyond what its title, Country Curious, suggests, her new EP is a cannonball into the deep end. Kirke is more than just curious, she is enthusiastically wrapping her arms around the genre across the four new songs on
ALBUM REVIEW: The High Hawks Radiate Good Vibrations on ‘Mother Nature’s Show’
Expect good vibes when you encounter Mother Nature’s Show, the sophomore outing from The High Hawks. This easygoing sextet exhibits the kind of special team spirit that can’t be faked, working like an efficient, albeit nicely scruffy, groove machine as it spans a variety of roots styles to
ALBUM REVIEW: Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz Keep Moving Through Change on ‘Simple Motion’
In their first duo project, Simple Motion, singer-songwriters Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz suggest responses to inevitable change. That might mean hopping a train or a ship with a certain destination, or one might “Ramble” — stepping outside, “one foot then the other.”
The changes Brace and Jutz navigate are as
ALBUM REVIEW: Blackberry Smoke Confirms Southern Rock Bona Fides on ‘Be Right Here’
Over the past 20 years, Blackberry Smoke has earned a reputation as a hard-driving, hard-working Southern rock band. Their new album, the Dave Cobb-produced Be Right Here, confirms the band’s place in the rock pantheon with its combination of propulsive rockers and gentle ballads.
The foot-stompin’ funk of the