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Texas songwriter Emily Herring 's new album, Your Mistake , came over my desk about a month ago and I fell for her ice-cold honky-tonk songwriting almost immediately. She sings with such confidence, and nails hard-lived country songwriting like nobody's business. And she gets the

The Handsome Family talk to Alan J Taylor in steel town (Sheffield, UK.) After over twenty years together, husband and wife duo, Brett and Rennie Sparks are still bouncing off each other like a pin ball game. I caught up with ‘The Handsome Family’ on a dark rainy night in

Somewhere in Honky Tonk Heaven, the great voices gather in the green room, taking their turns on the stage.  They say they play for a split of the tip jar, but money is like manna here and the drinks are free.  Even the water tastes like cherry wine.  No need

When I hear the word “Texas”, I immediately think of “big” or “oil”, or “Longhorns” or “Lone star”, or “rich”. When I hear “Texas fiddle”, Texas dance music or “Swing” comes to mind, like the twin and triple fiddles of the Texas Playboys with Bob Wills calling out behind the

During some Spring cleaning I encountered a stack of discs that hadn’t been on my radar for a few years, and this one was one of them.  It’s not a new reissue, as a matter of fact it’s a pricey out of print disc.  I’m no

In lithography, when an image is being reproduced, the print that sets the standard by which all other reproductions will be measured is called the "Artist Proof."   When he decided to use this as the name for his first solo album, singer-songwriter and session player,Chris Darrow