I knock out a few albums in my backlog from Sierra Hull, Jeff Crosby and Lilly Hiatt, as well as cover the debut album from Gone West… Read More Quick Draw Album Reviews: 25 Trips Out West To Clear My Backlog
McMurtry’s most reflective work yet… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: James McMurtry – ‘Complicated Game’ (2015)
Reviews for the latest projects from Hill Country, Hellbound Glory, Sarah Jarosz, and John Baumann… Read More Quick Draw Album Reviews: A Scum Country World
Timely then, timely now… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: Rhiannon Giddens – ‘Freedom Highway’ (2017)
Neon Cross is an ambitious album for Jaime Wyatt, but lacks the same energy as her previous work… Read More Album Review: Jaime Wyatt – ‘Neon Cross’
While Kip Moore remains an interesting figure within mainstream country music, he struggles to improve on past faults with his work on Wild World… Read More Album Review: Kip Moore – ‘Wild World’
Another impressive surprise release from Mike and the Moonpies… Read More Album Review: Mike And The Moonpies – ‘Touch Of You: The Lost Songs Of Gary Stewart’
Reviews for the latest projects from Tessy Lou Williams, Caitlin Cannon, Steve Earle & the Dukes and Reckless Kelly… Read More Quick Draw Album Reviews: The Trashcannon Jackpot
The saddest entry for this feature, but for reasons not pertaining to the actual music, which is a blast… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: Zac Brown Band – ‘Uncaged’ (2012)
As always, Jason Isbell doesn’t make music that’s easy to analyze, and there likely won’t be a song as universally loved on Reunions like “If We Were Vampires” or “Elephant” from past projects. But in terms of consistency and compelling thematic arcs, Reunions is one of Isbell’s strongest projects yet… Read More Album Review: Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – ‘Reunions’
Not the flashiest bluegrass albums of the 2010s, but a personal favorite of mine… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: Alison Krauss & Union Station – ‘Paper Airplane’ (2011)
Hold My Beer Vol. 2 sports a few low points its predecessor didn’t have, but the tight focus and fun banter between Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen keeps it a fun listen regardless… Read More Album Review: Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen – ‘Hold My Beer Vol. 2’
Coming off the heavier Songs For The Saints from 2018, Here And Now is Kenny Chesney’s return to lightweight, breezy material that doesn’t resonate nearly as much as Chesney thinks it does right now… Read More Album Review: Kenny Chesney – ‘Here And Now’
It’s tough to know what to ultimately make of the Hot Country Knights, which may be the point anyway… Read More Album Review: Hot Country Knights – ‘The K Is Silent’
Lamentations is both another insight into BJ Barham’s mind and past and a way to offer confidence for the future, even if it’s a bleak listen to get there. And though 2018’s Things Change signaled an overall bigger change for the band, Lamentations is another reinvention in and of itself, resulting in the band’s best album yet – and one of the best albums of the year… Read More Album Review: American Aquarium – ‘Lamentations’
Reviews for the latest projects from Pam Tillis, Dalton Domino, Whitney Rose and Gwen Sebastian… Read More Quick Draw Album Reviews: Feverdreamers Still Go To Rodeos
The album Eric Church needed to make at this point in his career… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: Eric Church – ‘Mr. Misunderstood’ (2015)
The best kind of comeback… Read More Favorite Albums Of The Decade: The Mavericks – ‘In Time’ (2013)
It’s hard to say who or what exactly is to blame for all of it, but Maddie and Tae’s sophomore release is most certainly a sophomore slump… Read More Album Review: Maddie & Tae – ‘The Way It Feels’
If, for whatever reason, Years really is John Anderson’s final album, at least he went out on a high note; and managed to make a fitting album for these troubled times… Read More Album Review: John Anderson – ‘Years’
