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...
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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,...
Luke Bryan Put a Song Called Fish Hunt Golf Drink on His Ninth Album
Luke Bryan performing. Track five on Luke Bryan’s ninth album is called “Fish Hunt Golf Drink”. It is difficult to think of four words...
Dale Watson Wrote a Song Called Don’t Let the Honky Tonks Go
Dale Watson performing. There is a song on Dale Watson’s new album called “Don’t Let the Honky Tonks Go”. It is a boot shuffler,...
Grace Potter Built Her Seventh Album Around a Woman Named Topeka
Grace Potter performing. The central figure on Trespasser is not Grace Potter. It is a woman called Topeka, invented for the record, whom Potter...
John Primer’s Birthplace Marker Is Approved but Not Yet Paid For
John Primer performing. The Mississippi Blues Trail has approved a historic marker for the birthplace of John Primer in Camden, Mississippi. It is not...
Matty Frank and Dooda: Where the Moths and Omnichords Came From 
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