Where The Ballad of Rigger Morris Came From: Alberta’s Oil Patch in a Cowpunk Song
An Edmonton Cowpunk Trio Tells a Roughneck’s Short Life in Four Verses and a Chorus The Ballad of Rigger Morris starts with a lone...
Outlaw Country
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...
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...
Maybe Magic by Ryan Sweezey and a Decade of Unfinished Songs: The Long Version 
Where Deep Blue Sea Came From: Kadi Beth and a Mayday Call Over Dark Water 
Backyard Getaway by Emily Fraser, a Pop-Country Escape: The Long Version 
Why New Orleans Blues Rock Survived the Move to Switzerland on Rising by Jeb Rault