Twenty Years of Rejected Songs Became Cory Branan’s Seventh Album
Cory Branan performing in Brooklyn. Most songwriters keep a folder of songs that did not make the record. Cory Branan kept his for two...
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Mike Campbell Called Ray Wylie Hubbard After Ringo Starr Brought Him Up
Ray Wylie Hubbard at the Austin Music Awards. The last two songs on Reel 2 Reel 4 Real were recorded in a studio off...
Elizabeth Cook Wrote the Manhattan Project Into a Country Album
Elizabeth Cook performing. Most country records about American history reach for the Civil War or the Dust Bowl. Great Television reaches for the Manhattan...
Billy Strings Hired T Bone Burnett and Called In His Heroes
Billy Strings was raised on Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs and Del McCoury records, handed to him by his stepfather. Del...
Charley Crockett Built a Country Album Like a Film Score
Twenty tracks, forty-five minutes, and six of them shorter than a minute. Charley Crockett’s sixteenth album is sequenced the way a film is scored,...
Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan Wrote a Song Together After 33 Years
Track four of Willie Nelson’s seventy-ninth album is called “I Can’t Read Your Mind”. It is credited to Nelson, Buddy Cannon and Bob Dylan...
Margo Price Cut a Protest Album With a Mariachi Band and Joan Baez
There was no announcement. The record simply appeared on the third of July, hours before Margo Price was due on stage at Willie Nelson’s...
Rhiannon Giddens Built a Band From Louisiana, the Congo and Italy
Rhiannon Giddens has spent twenty years arguing that American music was made by people from everywhere. Her new album is that argument assembled as...
Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn 
Hot Club of Cowtown Answered a Village Voice Ad and Stayed Thirty Years 
Marty Stuart Made a Surf Guitar Album on Clarence White’s Telecaster 
Turnpike Troubadours Covered Robert Earl Keen With Sierra Hull