The Red Clay Strays are American music. And most any genre should want to claim them as their own since they immediately up the ante of talent among it. The Red Clay Strays also can’t be anything but themselves.
Coby Acuff goes full-blown Outlaw on ‘Handmade Horsepower,’ laying grooves down, giving into two-tone beats, featuring a little phaser on the guitar every now and then, and getting outright mouthy about the ills of the music industry.
Herein lies what might be one of the greatest Western-inspired albums released in this year, or frankly, in many other years. With his debut album produced by Dave Cobb, the young-in-age, but old-in-soul…
All of these songs sound like Don Williams, and despite their orphaned history, still present a really strong effort, and one you’re more than happy to receive since it’s a Don Williams gift from beyond.
Kaitlin’s first original single after signing to Republic Records is absolutely everything you want from a Kaitlin Butts song. If anything, it utterly defines who she has been throughout her career.
He sings with a deftness nearing the angelic, allowing the stories and messages to stir the inner soul of his captive audience, resulting in an experience difficult to impossible to achieve through other conventional means.
On this album, he’s not trying to be Waylon or anyone else. He’s just trying to be Whey. And if that’s not good enough for a modern world that often settles for the trendy or familiar, that’s not going to sway Whey.
The story of William Alexander doesn’t start way out West. It starts way Down Under. But the wide open spaces, the horse, tack, fence, and cattle, the hard-working days and the lonesome nights are no different no matter the hemisphere.
49 Winchester can do what many other artists and bands can. But few artists and bands can turn around and do what 49 Winchester does. That’s because they don’t have Isaac Gibson.
There’s something about the songs, the voice, and the visage of Ryan Bingham when he’s at his best that evokes the grandeur and imagination of the rugged American experience in a uniquely compelling manner.
Any and all rebuttals against declaring that we’re in a full-throated traditionalist revival are rendered weak and ineffectual after a spin through this Braxton Keith record.
Bobby Dove once again creates a vibrant and enriching listening experience that reminds you why you devote time to digging deeper than the surface to discover the best stuff.
If Ashley isn’t blowing out your speakers with flamethrowing chainsaw guitar, she’s drowning you in a torrential downpour of waterworks with a power ballad. Even the more hushed moments come with intensity.
It finds Musgraves understanding the moment country music is in, leaning into her traditional country influences, and deserves to be a retrenching of her as one of the top women in country music.
You see Dale Watson standing up there on stage in your local honky tonk with his pompadour, popped collar, sliding in and out of Lone Star jingles like a pro, and you’d swear he gives up nothing to all the old greats.
Rachel Brooke has never been more country, her voice has never been showcased so exquisitely, her songwriting has never been so sharp and clever, and the music has never been so complimentary as it is on her new album.
That is what “Vengeance and Grace” is about—attacking those parts of yourself that present self-defeating weaknesses, but also not being so hard on yourself (or others) that you veer into self-destruction.
Discussions involving Vincent’s new album “Blue Stars” should commence upon whether it’s to be considered a career effort. Emerson made sure to really keep the passion up for twelve consistent tracks.
It’s Alex Miller’s use of devastating heartbreak and strong sentimentality chased by silly humor that scratches multiple country itches during More Country Than You’s ten tracks.
Dreamy, vibey, vintage, yet wildly resonant and relevant to as wide of an audience as possible, Ella Langley is rewriting the rules of what’s attainable for classic country music in real time.
Songwriting with purpose that’s unafraid to grow older and wiser with its audience, clothed in country rock music that’s unafraid to yearn for wide and infectious appeal—this is the experience of ‘A Heavy Duty Heart.’
With his new album Book Of Paul, Cauthen serves up yet another song that has some perplexed if it’s meant to be serious or parody. He also delivers what might be the best overall album of his entire career.
‘Age of the Ram’ is the third and final installment of what Crockett calls his “Sagebrush Trilogy” following the harrowing story of Billy McLane, and truly fulfills the promise of a conceptualized narrative.
Some people come to music to listen. Others come to feel. It’s the pain they crave like emotional junkies, searching for an especially incisive lyric to move over them like cold serrated steel raking across the skin.