country Archive
06 Oct 2017
Kasey Chambers’ Connecting Flight, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: As a member of the Dead Ringer Band with your parents and brother, you enjoyed success long before you began your solo career. What […]
05 Oct 2017
Kasey Chambers’ Connecting Flight, Part One
Many Americans have the mistaken idea that country music is the sole property of artists from the United States. Certainly that’s not the case: often thought of as forefathers of […]
03 Oct 2017
Album Review: Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters
Though the lineup of the Honeycutters has been rather constant for years now, few would contest the idea that the band is a vehicle for Amanda Anne Platt’s songwriting and […]
02 Oct 2017
Album Review: Nolan McKelvey & Dave Desmelik – ‘Where it Takes Us’
In an era when recordings artists routinely go years between album releases, Brevard singer-songwriter Dave Desmelik is an outlier. Since Move On, his 1999 solo debut, Desmelik has released no […]
11 Aug 2017
New Music Review Roundup, Part 3
Today I wrap up three days’ worth of reviews of new music. Dig if you will. The Pollyseeds – Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1 As far as I know, none […]
14 Jul 2016
Award-winning Guitarist Bryan Sutton Comes Home Again
“There’s a place on Interstate 40 eastbound, just on the east side of Knoxville, where you come around this curve,” says guitarist/singer/songwriter Bryan Sutton. “Suddenly the whole horizon is an […]
10 Jun 2016
The Bo-Keys: Today’s New School of Old-school (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Bo-Keys producer/bandleader Scott Bomar says that the bulk of the work on Heartaches by the Number took the form of pre-production. “I spent well over a […]
09 Jun 2016
The Bo-Keys: Today’s New School of Old-school (Part 1)
One of the most intriguing album releases of this year doesn’t sound like a new record, not at all. Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee and featuring veteran musicians from the city’s […]
03 Jun 2016
The Honeycutters: Creating Quite a Buzz
“I write a lot of songs,” admits Amanda Platt, leader and songwriter of Asheville-based roots group the Honeycutters. “I’m a very prolific writer; sometimes I wish I could turn it […]
26 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 5
This latest week-long dive into my backlog of worthy music for review wraps up with five archival releases. Vulgar Boatmen – You and Your Sister First things first: the album […]