I cannot explain it because I don’t speak Spanish, but NPR’s alt.Latino is my favorite music podcast — hands down. I’ve discovered so many fascinating and creative artists through them in genres I normally never listen to. Angélica Garcia is…
If, like me, you’ve dipped from country radio for a decade or two, there are a lot of encouraging reasons to poke your nose back in. Artists like Krystal King are making powerful music with meaty hooks and a judicious…
Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify or Tidal playlists! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like — this is music like your life depends on it. The…
Portland’s Mac Cornish is the uncomfortable protagonist of her bracing trad country single “Belle of the Bar.” Cornish’s deep affection for Laurel Canyon is obvious in her painterly lyrics and earthy rasp, but the twang in her rich voice is…
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Forrest VanTuyl (also known as An American Forrest) — and “The County” gives us a clue as to where he’s been: out in the back country, also called “The County.” VanTuyl helped…
You won’t find Shay Martin Lovette far from a body of water. His love for his North Carolina roots is clear on his gentle folk songs, brimming with a clarity and tenderness that seems to be infused into the landscape.…
We can talk about authenticity and country music ’til the cows come home (ha) but there’s no debate that “authenticity” is always used as a means of defining who’s in and who’s out of the genre — and for far…
CHUCK gives us all something tasty to chew on while we ponder the endless, meaningless expanse of the universe. I dunno, maybe we should all just have fun with the fact that we’re all going to do and that perhaps…