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• Interview: Malcolm Holcombe – Casting Out Demons

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  “Everybody get’s their own take on a song. They find something that they can tap their foot to or clench their fist to. Hopefully it’ll be somewhere in between.” Malcolm Holcombe Malcolm Holcombe is like a myth. A backwoods character in a Southern Gothic novel with a voice filled with a grave-dirt rattle ...
  20 hours ago

• The NBT Review 46

  
  NBT Independent Music — Authority: 108
  Somewhere Up North – Meet Citizen K (Paraply Records) Oh there is almost nothing as entrancing than the lonely sound of the trumpet played on the ocean’s (or river’s) edge. The sound sets the scene, the mood, gently takes hold of the emotions and readies us for a personal conversation with the artist. The ...
  2 days ago

• News Round Up: George Jones Says Get Your Own Damn Genre!

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  Happy birthday to Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer and the “Paul” of the Willie’s song “Me and Paul,” Paul English.  Happy birthday also to legendary Texas singer/songwriter Guy Clark . The latest installment of Popmatter.com’s excellent Torch & Twang series Juli Thanki delivers a post ...
  4 days ago

• Lucero: 1372 Overton Park

  
  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog — Authority: 433
  The guitars and the horn section sound like theyre engaged in a switchblade fight on "Sixes and Sevens," a biting tune from Luceros new album,"1372 Overton Park." Its like a summit meeting at a Hells Angels convention between the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones and Tower of Power. Some longtime Lucero fans dont ...
  5 days ago

• Happy Birthday Gram Parsons

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  On this day was born in Winter Haven, Florida, 1946 the man that would, with his bands – International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, fuse the  genres of country and rock and roll and change the landscape of both forever. Gram Parsons was also pivotal in introducing Emmylou Harris, then ...
  6 days ago

• The NBT Review 45

  
  NBT Independent Music — Authority: 108
  Detroit Rebellion – Deitroit Rebellion (Ramp Media Lab) Stripped down straight into chug-a-lug modern blues, why modern? Its just bounce forward voice and guitar to start with sure (like passing a ragged old house and hearing the tail end of a CSN+Y acoustic jam), but the modern is in the heart, the atmosphere. ...
  6 days ago

• Yesterday’s Ring – Diamonds in the Ditch

  
  Twangville — Authority: 490
  Belting it out from the great white north, Yesterday’s Ring ( Myspace ) is giving their Canadian friends a clinic in good ol’ American Cow-Punk. Their recent release, Diamonds In the Ditch (Suburban Home), is a solid collection of heartbreak, life on the road, abuse and love gone wrong. I wont suggest that ...
  1 week ago

• Wrinkle Neck Mules - Let the Lead Fly

  
  Amber Waves of Twang — Authority: 98
  With the release of their fourth album the Wrinkle Neck Mules have established themselves as one of the premier roots rock bands. Let the Lead Fly is a bit less electric but rocks just as hard. With the use of banjo, mandolin and pedal steel, the roots move to the forefront on this release. As usual the band tells ...
  1 week ago

• Doug & Telisha Williams – “Ghost of the Knoxville Girl”

  
  songs:illinois — Authority: 506
  Honky-tonk Friday came a little early this week with the (virtual) arrival of the new record by Martinsville, Virginia natives Doug & Telisha Williams . The record’s called Ghost of the Knoxville Girl and sits squarely in the intersection of blues, country and roots. Much like the recent record from Eilen ...
  1 week ago

• Homecoming Live: Hall 3 Preview

  
  radiomagnetic.com — Authority: 432
  In Hall 3 of Homecoming Live – The Final Fling at the SECC you’ll get the opportunity to catch live performances from some great contemporary Scottish acts, revered and influential Scottish bands of the last twenty years and two of the last decade’s most respected homegrown outfits. Saturday 28 November will ...
  1 week ago

• Halloween Video: The Drive By Truckers

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  Lookout Mountain – Halloween – Chicago – 2004 Click here to view the embedded video. Related posts: Unknown Hinson Readies Halloween Live Release Silver Jews Interview – Pitchfork.com 10 Spooky Gothic Country Halloween Songs
  1 week ago

• Take a ride… the sounds of Kerouac, Cohen & Bon Iver

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  As the clouds roll in and the humidity continues to rise, dip your toes into the sounds of these new folk sounds. Take a ride to the rugged coast of Kerouac’s Big Sur with the Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard; be mesmerised by the messianic tones of Cohen as he tames the crowd at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival and ...
  1 week ago

• The NBT Review 44

  
  NBT Independent Music — Authority: 108
  Jebediah Goodthrust – Jebediah Goodthrust (Choose To Lose Music) Ashes Of Bridges – The Hit & Mrs. (Choose To Lose Music) The lonely souls take a darker path and the mystery figure heard on demos and 4 track gifts comes into slightly sharper focus. So ok let’s take Goodthrust for the moment. Oh ...
  1 week ago

• Curtis Harvey – Box of Stones

  
  Twangville — Authority: 490
  Many great artists produce music that is inspiring without being technically gifted vocalists. Kris Kristofferson and Ryan Bingham have produced two of the year’s best albums while displaying vocals that few would term “smooth”. The largely acoustic solo debut from Curtis Harvey ( Myspace ), Box of Stones ...
  1 week ago

• 10 Spooky Gothic Country Halloween Songs

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  Despite Nashville’s best efforts to sanitize it for mass-consumption country and roots music has a long history of dealing with the dark side of life. Murder, violence, inebriation, the Devil, graveyards -  all the classic themes that also weave through All Hallows Eve are there. Hard times,  hard feelings and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clem Snide - Soft Spot (2003)

  
  Explorando en tu Mente — Authority: 108
  Clem Snide - Soft Spot (2003) Mp3 @ 192 kbps - 52MB Soft Spot son canciones lentas, country atmosferico triste , quietas, sin embargo de una belleza profunda, solo basta escuchar la primera cancion del disco " Forever Now and Then" Una preciosa canción , como un sueño nublado hecho de fantasías ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Old 97’s at Lounge Ax

  
  Chicago History Museum | Blog — Authority: 113
  In the summer of 1996, I was studying architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Late one night, another student put on a bootleg cassette tape of extraordinary music. The band was the Old 97’s, from Dallas, and the first song I heard was “The Other Shoe” a mid-tempo country song about betrayal and ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Round Up: Bruce Robison Video Diary, E.C. and Orna Ball Tribute

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  Check out the video tour diary from Bruce Robison as he Robert Earl Keen, Todd Snider proceed up and down the East Coast and back into Texas on their Barstool Tour. Linda Lee at the super Willie Nelson blog StillIsStillMoving.com interviews Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck . Check out the excellent videos ...
  2 weeks ago

• Music Review: Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates – Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates [self released]

  
  Twang Nation — Authority: 121
  Seattle based artist by way of Alabama and Texas, Lindsay Fuller plumbs the deep, dark well of Southern Gothic narrative and, with the help of her excellent band the Cheap Dates, hauls up a mossy bucket of songs splendid in rich narration and bitter in their wretched fates. Southern Gothic yarns are bleak by design ...
  2 weeks ago

• Elvyn @ Silver Dollar

  
  It's Not The Band I Hate, It's Their Fans — Authority: 459
  Brothers Joel and Ryan Beerman have been playing music together as Elvyn for just over 11 years now, and their professionalism and abilities have only increased during that time. Elvyns mix of pure pop and alt-country is as catchy and accessible as it gets, filled with soaring harmonies and heartbreaking lyricism. ...
  2 weeks ago

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