Roping Horses & Chasing Songs: Sean Devine
Sean Devine’s Here For It All delivers emotional storytelling intimate as a campfire on a cold night and open as the sky over the…
Interviews
Interplanetary Cowboy: Garrett T. Capps Talks New Album, Heroes & NASA Country
Somewhere west of Cosmic American music and south of the steer skull buckle on the asteroid belt (it’s there), you’ll find the space country…
Honky Tonk Bread & Butter: Mike Harmeier Talks New Moonpies Album, Sing-alongs, and Destination Recording
From the opening salvo of “Paycheck To Paycheck”, it’s clear that Mike and The Moonpies have hit another gear with their latest album One…
Cacophony of Voices: Justin Osborne of SUSTO
Charleston, South Carolina’s musical identity is forever tied to beach music, an endless revival of 1950s and ’60s rock, pop, and R&B. It’s called…
Golden Rules & True Faith: Charley Crockett’s Music City USA
Music City USA is Charley Crockett’s 10th studio effort, and of course, such an occasion deserves a double LP. Reuniting with Mark Neill at…
Country Westerns Talk Rock n’ Roll, Right Vibes & the Perfect Rolling Stones Song Ahead of 9/10 Performance at Grant’s Lounge
Dropping the needle on a Country Westerns record validates the entire turntable experience. There’s the half-second silent reprieve and then the sound of rock…
‘I don’t need an identity anymore. I can just be me’: James McMurtry Talks Wisdom, Myth & the Future of Live Music
I always feel like I’m in the principal’s office when I talk to James McMurtry. It’s not that I’m in trouble, necessarily, but I’d…
‘You can only chip away so much until you’ve reached your goal’: Zeke Sayer of The Humms
In 2010, The Humms released their stunning debut, the instantly immortal Lemonland. For filing purposes, you can label it “garage”, but the band and…
Faye Webster Talks New Album, Walk-up Music, and Being Understood
In love with New York, the inestimable Jim Carroll wrote: I sleep on a tar roof, scream my songs into lazy floods of stars,…