Country music album reviews from Holler.
What’s here is creative, well-written, professionally played country, but the nine originals barely break a half hour.
The most important of gifts that Ballerini gives us is a record so affectionately her own.
Raw, revealing and often riveting - but not for the faint of heart.
Lane sings about unbearable weariness, bitter loneliness and the often-terrible cost of living life on your own terms. Then, in the same breath, she revels in the unmatchable joy of being free.
While this is the final bookend of the Through the Madness era, Maddie & Tae have fully demonstrated in 2022 that the fate of duos within the genre is in faithful and steady hands.
Ondara is no prophet, but the Spanish Villager has put together something that should be heard and discussed for a long time to come.