Dark & Dirty Mile

June 17, 2013

Saving Country Music’s Best Albums of 2013 So Far

2013 has come on strong here recently for quality albums, with some real contenders for the coveted “Album of the Year” distinction released just in the last week. Any “Best Of” album list for 2013 is also going to reflect the leadership and creativity displayed by country music women, which has become one of the year’s underlying themes so far.

2013 Best Albums, Best Country Albums of 2013, Bless This Mess, Caitlin Rose, Dark & Dirty Mile, Eric Strickland, High Top Mountain, Holly Williams, I'm Bad For You, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Jason Isbell, Jayke Orvis, Southeastern, Sturgill Simpson, The Dinosaur Truckers, The Highway, The Mavericks In Time, The Stand In

Jason Boland & The Stragglers “Dark & Dirty Mile”

If Red Dirt spans a wide sonic palette that ranges from hard country to straight rock n’ roll—with alt-country, country rock, Southern rock, and even some country pop thrown in between—then Jason Boland is the hard-edged bookened defining Red Dirt’s country border. In other words, it is pretty difficult to be more country than Jason Boland and the Stragglers.

Cody Canada, Dark & Dirty Mile, Jason Boland, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, MIke McClure, Red Dirt, Stoney LaRue, The Departed