Check out this laid-back honky tonk-tune from Hayes Carll and The Band of Heathens. With tongue-in-cheek lyrics, this good-humoured reflection on the merits of marijuana and getting high is an engaging number. Over shuffling rhythms, ‘Nobody […]
If the truth be known, and no disrespect intended, it’s always struck me as a little odd to start a list of ‘Top 10… whatever’ by emphasising the purely personal nature of the choices and the […]
Eighth album, business as usual for multi-award winner. Hayes Carll ploughs a rarified furrow in the world of Americana – oft compared with Prine and Dylan for his ability to craft a song with deeper than […]
According to an article on savingcountrymusic.com, back in the early noughties Houston-born singer-songwriter Hayes Carll was hailed as a potential successor of Townes Van Zandt “in Texas and beyond.” And now, twenty years on, some of […]
So that’s it for us for another week dear reader. Don’t forget that Toad the Wet Sprocket have a new album out today and while no track from it ever quite reaches the heights of ‘California […]
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