The husband-and-wife duo Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore are definitely up the Brooklyn branch of
alt-country, much more like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, say, than George Jones and Tammy Wynette, but the story, love in all its joining and ...
In response to criticism that her records weren't country enough, Harris recorded Blue Kentucky Girl,
one of her most traditional outings. Relying on a more acoustic sound, the album largely forsakes contemporary pop songs in favor of standard country fare, ...
While Emmylou Harris spent much of her career carrying on the legacy of Gram Parsons,
Elite Hotel ranks among her most overt tributes to his genius, thanks to its covers of the Flying Burrito Brothers' Sin City and Wheels, along ...
After the musical uncertainty of Waterloo Lily, Caravan returned with their most inspired recording since
In the Land of the Grey and Pink. The splendidly titled For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night is several steps ahead in terms ...
There could only ever be one Slim Whitman. A left-handed guitar player with an arresting
falsetto vocal style that sounds eerily like Johnny Mathis blended with Roy Orbison, Whitman fell to the western side of country music, but he also ...
Where Greatest Hits had the bulk of Tom T. Hall's greatest story songs, Greatest Hits,
Vol. 2 concentrates on his silly, cutesy songs, like Sneaky Snake, I Like Beer, I Love, and Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine, among seven ...
Prior to 2014's highly regarded Goodnight Tender, Amy Ray had spent her career, both solo
and with fellow Indigo Girl Emily Saliers, dancing around the margins of various American roots traditions. The Indigo Girls' music has always been rooted in ...
The eponymous follow-up to 2015's lovely and understated Over and Even, Joan Shelley sees the
Louisville, Kentucky-based singer/songwriter and her partner in crime Nathan Salsburg delivering a warm breeze of a record that unfolds like a curl of smoke from ...