This is an artist who only knows how to write the most brutally honest, the most touching and unburdening songs each time pen meets paper, never willing to settle for anything that feels even remotely empty.
Leave it to Sturgill Simpson to do the most Sturgill Simpson things possible when releasing his latest album “Mutiny After Midnight,” officially recorded under his pseudonym Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds.
On his new album, Eric Lee Beddingfield resurrects those old country music dreams, and fulfills that part of himself that never went away. And in the process, reminds us all it’s never too late to do a resurrection of our own.
Cloud 9 is more pop than country in total, and includes a few full-blown pop songs. But the country influences here are inescapable, almost curious in frequency—and for actual country fans, refreshingly welcome.
Outlaw country, throwback classic country, Western, countrypolitan to even singer/songwriter stuff, Nick Sizemore throws the kitchen sink at you with this album and scratches all your country music itches.
Never let the Outlaw visage obfuscate your view that these are the songwriters who often most fearlessly plumb their way into the innermost depths of human emotion.
If you wish that country music had been frozen in a stasis during its greatness of the Golden Era of the ’50s, you’ll immediately warm up to what Muchacho Sanchez has cooked up with his debut album.
Like so many true country fans, keeping the memory of all the old Outlaw country greats alive is serious business for Doug Armento. It’s about paying their legacy forward in original songs the take inspiration from their music.
Brothers Chandler and Miles just released their debut album ‘Heartbreak & Honky-Tonk’ that puffs its chest out and demands more than a passing sniff from distinguishing country fans with traditional tastes.
What kind of towering power is music capable of? To bask in the audience of Emily Scott Robinson’s voice and songs, you feel like anything is possible through the marriage of words and melody.
They call him Kashus, and he’s the latest to tap into the inviting and lucrative sound that infuses influences of vintage soul and country together, making something that’s distinctly Southern and soulful.
‘Geneva” feels like their official arrival, a pronouncement of their attempt to put songs first without sacrificing appeal, and to be one of the preeminent new bands boldly striking out of Appalachia to earn listeners around the globe.
Irrespective of what anyone thinks about the music at this point, it’s undeniable that Zach Bryan is one of the biggest phenomenons in music in the last quarter century.
Congratulations to Wednesday and all their success. It’s cool they hold a love for country music in their hearts, and are willing to express it. But let’s keep the assessment open and honest: Bleeds is an alt rock album.
Well here we go. We’re barely over our New Years hangovers, and Josh Weathers comes right out of the chute slobber knocking us across the face with a full-tilt honky tonk experience. The new year will be COUNTRY.
If you’re a fan of the sensible but traditional country songs of guys like Cody Johnson and Randall King, Wynn Williams released the album in 2025 that should’ve been on your radar, by maybe wasn’t.
There’s one way to remove yourself from the overbearing shadow of a maternal or paternal legacy in music, and quell the criticisms of privilege. You can just be so damn good, you blow past all that banter.
It turns out that Brad Paisley has just the right amount of Christmas cheer, classic country nostalgia, sheer talent, and elfish mischief and humor to compose a country Christmas record that’s well above serviceable.
As the world feels like it’s unraveling and spinning out of control, a attentive spin through Heart Talkin’ helps slow everything down, and remind you to savor the important moments in life, however fleeting.
Not since the height of Austin music in the ’70s have we heard songs so indicative of the original spirit of the Austin scene. That’s what the Shinglers throw down on their new album “Hit The Head!”
Tracing the shared legacies of traditional country and bluegrass until they intertwine and sing together in a sweet harmony, Sister Sadie’s ‘All Will Be Well’ is a 2025 album not to be overlooked or trifled with.
As classic and cool as a pair of Wayfarers, William Beckmann’s music evokes the body curves of the fender on a vintage Cadillac, and the sheen on the burl of a Wurlitzer juke box.
Since 2021, this group of of young musicians native to Bakersfield have been doing what they can to keep the authentic sounds, songs, and stories of The Bakersfield Sound alive.
In the new wave of regressive music being peddled as “country” because no other genre would dare put their stamp of approval on it, Treaty Oak Revival takes top billing, even above Gavin Adcock.