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Allison Moorer returns with new memoir and album – Listen to the first song from it

August 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Allison Moorer will be releasing her first new album proper since 2015’s ‘Down to Believin’’ on October 29th through Thirty Tigers. The album will be called ‘Blood’ and will be followed by the release of her […]

Stream Rodney Crowell’s new album featuring Steve Earle

August 16, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1

Rodney Crowell’s new album ‘Texas’ is a 11-track release out in the UK today on Crowell’s RC1 Records imprint, which finds the legendary singer-songwriter enlisting the help of several fellow Texans, including Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, […]

Hiss Golden Messenger release new track from forthcoming album – Listen

August 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

North Carolina americana band Hiss Golden Messenger have released a new song called ‘Happy Birthday, Baby’ a month before the release of their forthcoming seventh studio album ‘Terms of Surrender’. Frontman M.C. Taylor told RS: “It’s […]

Rosanne Cash, Isbell and more voice support for gun control

August 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Rolling Stone carried an interesting piece yesterday on americana and country artists who in the wake of the recent mass shootings in the US have voiced their support for gun control. In several recent incidents, the […]

Book Review – “The 33 1/3 B-Sides” edited by Will Stockton and D. Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

August 14, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

This is a lot of reading for the money! I’ve reviewed a number of books from this series over the past few months; usually a 33 1/3 book consists of an in-depth assessment of a key […]