ALBUM REVIEW•Jill Barber - Homemaker
Anyone who loves the layered storytelling of John Prine and Nanci Griffith or novelists like Anne Tyler will immediately warm to Homemaker.
ALBUM REVIEW•Shania Twain - Queen of Me
Queen of Me is adventurous, a bit weird and delightfully imperfect.
STAFF PICKS•Brit Taylor - Kentucky Blue
Taylor knows the sort of place that gives her the strongest sense of belonging. She delivers that same assuredness in her music as well.
ALBUM REVIEW•Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel
War lays bare her psyche, alchemizing personal struggles into a sonic guidebook to survival.
LIVE REVIEW•10 Best Moments at UK Americana Music Week 2023
From showcases and speeches to celebrity appearances and dazzling awards, here are our highlights from Americana UK Week 2023.
ALBUM REVIEW•Tyler Childers - Country Squire
A mere two years after his acclaimed sophomore album Purgatory, Childers returns with his most cohesive and fully realized work yet.
ALBUM REVIEW•Tyler Childers - Purgatory
On Purgatory, Childers allows his point of view to dwell in a space of conflict. The results are beautifully complicated, thought-provoking and, at times, flawed.
ALBUM REVIEW•JD Clayton - Long Way From Home
Damn good country songs, full of energy and optimism
ALBUM REVIEW•Tyler Hubbard - Tyler Hubbard
Hubbard’s first solo outing is marked with the pitfall of modern country radio: too much reliance on hooks over-honest lyrical depth. Nevertheless, he shows glimmers of the sort of songwriting heft that creates long-standing careers in the business.
STAFF PICKS•Pony Bradshaw - North Georgia Rounder
Pony Bradshaw’s talent for molding lyrics atop pensive melodies makes him one of Americana’s finest craftsmen.
ALBUM REVIEW•H.C. McEntire - Every Acre
H.C. McEntire explores topography - geographical, emotional, metaphysical - in her newest release
ALBUM REVIEW•Elle King - Come Get Your Wife
King was never officially ‘in’ country music to begin with, but she’s proof that if you show the genre reverence, you can run straight at it with boots worth their scuffs and songs worth their strings.
ALBUM REVIEW•HARDY - the mockingbird & THE CROW
Unfortunately, you can’t help but feel the mockingbird’s wings are clipped by its comparatively impenetrable alter ego, THE CROW.
STAFF PICKS•Margo Price - Strays
Modern Outlaw's finest reunites the Price Tags for this extraordinary and pulsating album of psychedelic Americana.
ALBUM REVIEW•Myron Elkins - Factories, Farms & Amphetamines
21-year-old newcomer makes a formidable impression with his taut and tenacious debut
ALBUM REVIEW•Charles Wesley Godwin - How the Mighty Fall
The West Virginia songsmith burnishes his sobering tales with a smooth, alluring sheen that ensures the album is more than capable of puncturing the mainstream country bubble.
ALBUM REVIEW•Cody Johnson - Cody Johnson & The Rockin’ CJB Live
Johnson rarely has time for a breath as he reels off his broad catalogue of honky-tonk anthems.
STAFF PICKS•Adeem the Artist - White Trash Revelry
Adeem the Artist's truth-telling is an antidote not only to country radio but also to our political discourse writ large.
ALBUM REVIEW•David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band - Live at the Capitol Theatre
All quite lovely, charming and sedate, although at times the adjective snoozy rears its head...
ALBUM REVIEW•George Strait - Ocean Front Property
Heartbreakers, heartmakers, songs to dance to, songs to sing to, to just enjoy - 35 years on, Ocean Front Property remains one of George Strait's most beloved records.
ALBUM REVIEW•Willie Nelson - Live at Budokan
On Live at Budokan, messy performances from Willie Nelson’s band mar a historic document of Nelson’s first trip to Japan.
ALBUM REVIEW•Caitlin Rose - CAZIMI
CAZIMI finds Rose exploring new sounds, but sticking to the same topics that garnered her those rising star epithets years ago.
ALBUM REVIEW•Billy Strings - Me/and/Dad
This is a feisty, frisky and fresh collection that finds father and son in superb spirits.
ALBUM REVIEW•Willi Carlisle - Peculiar, Missouri
With his sophomore effort Peculiar, Missouri, Willi Carlisle secures his place as one of today’s most captivating storytellers.