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Jason James Keeps Traditional Country Alive On New Album ‘Cut The Chain’

Jason James is putting steel guitar, honky tonk heartbreak and traditional country storytelling front and centre on his third full-length album, ‘Cut The Chain,’ available now thro...

Transmissions :: Jim James

Since 1998, Jim James has led My Morning Jacket. In the early 2000s, the band's blend of Southern rock, psychedelia, dub, classic songcraft, loner country, and experimental folk pu...

Mac Cornish “Wayfaring Woman”

Californian singer reminds you of the days when country music was country music, and that’s no bad thing. Mac Cornish grew up on the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz mountains in n...

Video: Bryan Jack “Judgement Day” – timeless songwriting

This recent single from fourth-generation Austin singer-songwriter Bryan Jack is taken from his debut album, The Marfa Drive, which was released in March 2026. Mastered by Nick Lan...

For the Sake of the Song: Lucinda Williams “Metal Firecracker”

There are songs that you love for the lyrics, songs that you love for the music; sometimes you get a song where both are so perfect you have a masterpiece. Lucinda Williams’ Metal...

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Beefheart & McQuinn

Beefheart & McQuinn’s Midtown Downtime arrived earlier this year as a ten-song distillation of folk-rock’s softer, more unhurried pleasures. Think. close harmonies, crisp arran...

J.J. Cale with Tom Petty & Mike Campbell - McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA 2009

J.J. Cale's performed at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica on March 28, 2009.He was joined onstage halfway through the show by a couple of guys, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, who...

Review: Phil Madeira ‘The Millionth Mile’

Review: Phil Madeira 'The Millionth Mile' By Jim Hynes Rhode Island native, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Phil Madeira is celebrating 50 years as a professional musi...

4 Alan Jackson Lyrics That Still Stop Us in Our Tracks

Alan Jackson performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre on September 12, 1992 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) Alan Jackson's voice is literally and me...

Robert Earl Keen’s Longtime Guitarist Received an ALS Diagnosis. Texas Music Is Rallying

Benefit concerts and tribute songs have been popping up for musician Rich Brotherton, who has performed live and in the studio with Keen and Patty Griffin

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Okkervil River

As the listener traverses the hills, mountains and valleys of Okkervil River’s albums, there are many treasures lying in wait. Some in plain sight, some hidden, others only to be d...

REVIEW: Phil Madeira “The Millionth Mile”

Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path

Jake Xerxes Fussell returns with another set of meticulously curated old-time songs played and sung with warmth and grace. The North Carolinian songwriter has a musicologist’s gras...

My Morning Jacket “Like A Hurricane” – take it to the bridge

We know you know My Morning Jacket and are well aware of Jim James.  You probably know that obscure singer-songwriter Neil Young whose song is being covered.  More than likely you’...

Wowed Out

Jim James has had quite the varied career for nearly three decades.

James Felice announces release of second solo album in November

James Felice has announced that Homeworld Blue, his sophomore solo album, will be released on 13th November 2026 via Conor Oberst’s Million Stars Records. Produced by Nate Walcott...

John Michael Hersey – Quixote

Twenty-two albums in, a songwriter either repeats himself into oblivion or finds a way to make repetition itself the joke. Hersey has chosen the latter path, and *Quixote* is the s...

Who Keeps On Choosin’ Texas? | Cannonball with Wesley Morris

Nevermind that cowboy at the bar.

John Ross McEwen – ‘Late Bloomer’

Wichita, Kansas-based singer-songwriter and guitarist John Ross McEwen presents Late Bloomer as a deeply personal full-length shaped by intimate acoustic songwriting and atmospheri...

Get Your Hankies Out Before Listening to This Devastating Tom Waits Lyric

Tom Waits knows his way around a tender ballad. "Take It With Me", released in 1999, ranks among his very best. The post Get Your Hankies Out Before Listening to This Devastating T...

Album Review – Jason James – “Cut The Chain”

For those of you that love to put on an old George Jones record and pretend like the last 50 years of country music never happened, the music of Jason James will be as welcomed as...

C&L's Late Nite Music Club: The Gun Club, 'The Breaking Hands'

Jeffrey Lee Pierce was haunting, tormented, chaotic, and one of those songwriters other musicians described as brilliant. He was adored, preferably from a distance, because he was...

4 Merle Haggard Lyrics That Still Stop Us in Our Tracks

Merle Haggard Merle Haggard's lyrics are often personal and shaped by his own story. Here are some that showcase his raw talent. The post 4 Merle Haggard Lyrics That Still Stop Us...

Jess Williamson :: A Mile South of Heaven

Jess Williamson's Shooter Jennings-produced sixth solo album, A Mile South of Heaven, is a desert curiosity shop’s worth of inspirations: Williamson pulls storytelling techniques f...