Writers working through personal upheaval often go inward and narrow. Going outward to history instead is a harder and less common move.
Americana
Pieta Brown performing with Bo Ramsey. The two people who produced Dreamin’ Of with Pieta Brown are better known for a different kind of...
Cory Branan performing in Brooklyn. Most songwriters keep a folder of songs that did not make the record. Cory Branan kept his for two...
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 performing. Most country records about American history reach for the Civil War or the Dust Bowl. Great Television reaches for the Manhattan...

Miko Marks Opens Hell Or High Water at the Little Bighorn
Pieta Brown Made Her Ninth Album With Two Bon Iver Alumni
Twenty Years of Rejected Songs Became Cory Branan’s Seventh Album
Mike Campbell Called Ray Wylie Hubbard After Ringo Starr Brought Him Up
Elizabeth Cook Wrote the Manhattan Project Into a Country Album
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