News Bits
- Review of “Vinyl Countdown” musical slots game
- Jon Black’s SxSW 2013 The Best Review In the World – Day 2
- Jon Black’s SxSW 2013 The Best Review In the World – Day 1
- Breezy in New Bust up With Singer
- Fuzz Face and Granny Whites CD Release Party Set for February 28th
- Justin Townes Earle – Is On Tour!!!!!!
- Celebrity Guitar Auction to Benefit Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund
- Blackmore’s Night Singer Candice Night Releases Debut Solo Album, “Reflections”
- Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes Bring Joy to Live Music
- Thoughts on LOSING MY BROTHERHOOD by Bobby Long
Country Music Pride
- The Big Damn Blues Revolution Tour – The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
- I Just Geeked Out & Bought Limited Edition Johnny Cash Stamps
- Still Fighting the War – Slaid Cleaves Interview
- Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban to Perform at CMT Music Awards
- Performers Announced for the 2013 CMT Music Awards
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Get Primitive with Daniel Bachman: Seven Pines Album Review
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A Look at The Wild Feathers
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Wing and Hollow’s Signal Fire: EP Review
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French Camp’s Sophomore Album, Odd Particle: A Review
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Todd Snider is a Country Hippie
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Posts Tagged ‘Country’
Album Review: Dreams of the San Joaquin
When I was seventeen, my grandfather drove my sister and me across the country to California as a graduation present. This was the year of my musical awakening—the age when I discovered there was more to the wide world than what played on the Top Forty radio. My parents had raised us with a healthy [...]
A Talk with Bobby Long – Part Two
I grew up listening to folk music and murder ballads, thanks to my parents. While other kids were glued to Casey Kasem on Sunday afternoons, I nodded along to The Kingston Trio or Joan Baez in the backseat of the car. I probably wasn’t old enough to appreciate Little Boxes, and that’s why I take [...]
Spotlight on Anderson East
I’d only met him once, after a show at The Basement on 8th Avenue, where he performed before Sam Bradley and Marcus Foster and completely stole my heart. Any other knowledge I had of his appearance came through professional photographs on his website. Anderson East is magnetic on stage and sultry in pictures, and I [...]
Old Crow Medicine Show Gets Carried Away
One night in the early ‘00s, the legendary Doc Watson stumbled across a group of good-lookin’ cats playing old-timey music in front of a pharmacy in North Carolina, and immediately shipped them off to Merlefest. In 2004 they knocked the nation off our feet with their self-titled debut album. It opened with a fiery hot [...]
Strong Debut from Gabriel Kelley – It Don’t Come Easy
If moving forward in music is scary—forging new paths, creating new sounds and genres—then looking back must be terrifying. That fear over the path you’ve chosen, even if it’s through previously charted lands, must be crippling. After all, we’ve moved on as listeners into a new age, and we tend to do so every few [...]
Slaid Cleaves “Sorrow and Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge” Music Road
Slaid Cleaves may not be a natural-born Texan (He’s originally from Portland, Maine. He has been in Texas for 20 years, though.), but he knows a thing or two about a thing or two. For starters, he knows about songwriting, and he shows it off here with a 2 disc set of his “greatest hits” [...]
Nashville’s Derek Hoke: ATF – Beyond the Music
We’re introducing a new feature here at The Flood called Beyond the Music. (Yes, in the spirit of VH1′s sensationalistic “Behind the Music” series, but without the ubiquitous tragedies.) Each installment of ATF – Beyond the Music will feature a video with commentary by the artist about the song, the video shoot, the album, juicy [...]
Album Review: NRBQ – “Keep This Love Goin’” – (Clang!)
Summer is here and NRBQ is back; that’s cause for celebration on both counts. Well known for unusual musical pairings and rollicking live shows, the band is better and looser than ever: Who else would adapt Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor” to a loping country song? That’s exactly what keyboardist/frontman Terry Adams [...]
Album review of Old Californio: Sundrunk Angels
Set to drop July 19, 2011, Old Californio’s Sundrunk Angels is the third studio album from the Pasadena, California quintet. Their sound is an eclectic blend of country, rock, folk, and psychedelic rock that is reminiscent of bands like the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Gram Parsons Flying Burritos. The label [...]
Album Review: Matt Bauer – “The Jessamine County Book of the Living” (Crossbill)
Matt Bauer, a Kentucky-born recording artist and songwriter, is awaiting the release of his second album, The Jessamine County Book of the Living (Crossbill Records, June 7, 2011). Bauer’s style could be described as neo-industrial folk, and his vocal delivery can best be articulated as a raspy whisper that makes Bill Anderson sound like a [...]
EP Review: Crooks – “Lonesome, Rowdy and Restless”
There’s nothing quite like a classic high lonesome sound to get straight to the heart of every country and roots music fan, especially when it’s done right and with honest emotion. This Austin, TX, four-piece sure got it right. A follow-up to 2008′s full-length, self-titled album (and a precursor to this year’s second full-length), “Lonesome, [...]
Ponderosa Stomp, Day Two: More Stompin’ through History
STOMPIN’ THROUGH HISTORY: The Ponderosa Stomp and America’s Musical Legacy Day Two As the second night of America’s premier annual roots music festival, The Ponderosa Stomp, kicks off at the House of Blues in New Orleans, I am excited by two things. First is the Stomp’s line-up itself. While Day One focused strongly on Cajun, [...]
Album Review: Railroad Earth – “Railroad Earth” – (One Haven)
By Brian Lightfoot Railroad Earth’s self-titled release is a comfortable and confident layering of Southern rock, country and bluegrass. It is an undeniably American record with very naturally performed and recorded songs. Mixtures of sparkly acoustic instruments and twangy-to-growling telecaster tones matched with driving drum beats, semi-bluegrass bits, and some surprisingly funk- and rock-driven rhythms [...]
Another Late Night: Lissie Makes Network TV Debut, 1:35am ET
On the heels of her performances at last weekend’s Austin City Limits Festival, Lissie will make her network television debut tonight on Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC, 1:35am ET/12:35am CT), playing “In Sleep” (how fitting) from her debut full-length album Catching A Tiger. The performance and short interview segment were filmed live at her [...]
