Jason Isbell Made an Album Alone With a 1940 Martin in Five Days
Jason Isbell performing at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Five days at Electric Lady Studios, one 1940 Martin, and nobody else in the room. Jason...
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HARDY Answered His Rock Detour With an Album Called Country! Country!
HARDY performing at the Stranahan Theater. Six of the twenty song titles on HARDY’s new album contain the word “country”. The album is called...
Old Dominion Named Their Sixth Album After a Woman Who Does Not Exist
Old Dominion with their Vocal Group of the Year awards at the ACM Awards. Old Dominion’s sixth album is called Barbara and there is...
Carly Pearce Brought Two Bluegrass Voices Onto Her Fifth Album
Carly Pearce performing in Leamington, Ontario, in 2025. Dan Tyminski sings on two songs of Carly Pearce’s fifth album. Molly Tuttle sings on one...
Dierks Bentley Wrote Only Four of the Eleven Songs on Broken Branches
Dierks Bentley performing in 2024. Look down the writing credits on Broken Branches and Dierks Bentley’s name appears four times across eleven songs. On...
Lainey Wilson’s Ninth No. 1 Shares a Credit With Over the Rainbow
Lainey Wilson performing in 2024. The songwriting credit on Lainey Wilson’s ninth number one reads: Lainey Wilson, Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, Harold...
Asleep at the Wheel Made a Texas Album With No Bob Wills on It
Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel performing. The band that spent fifty years keeping Bob Wills in print made an album about Texas...
Doug MacLeod Learned Never to Play a Note He Did Not Believe
Doug MacLeod performing with a resonator guitar. Doug MacLeod has been repeating the same sentence for most of fifty years, because a man in...
Colter Wall Cut His Drinking Songs in the Room That Made Honky Tonk Heroes
Colter Wall performing. RCA Studio A in Nashville is the room where Waylon Jennings cut Honky Tonk Heroes, where Merle Haggard and the Strangers...
Selwyn Birchwood Produced Himself and Wrote a Blues About the Algorithm
Selwyn Birchwood performing. Blues albums do not usually open with dial-up modem static. On Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, released 27 March through Alligator Records,...
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