It took me a long time to jump on the I Can Lick Any SOB bandwagon. I though the few songs of theirs I’d heard a little crude (although “Westboro Baptist Church” holds a special place in my heart) and…
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Alive Naturalsound is a really cool record label. If you’re into fuzzy guitars and ’70s rock, they’ve got your number. Today’s entry, Hollis Brown, hails from a place that is close to my…
Usually when I talk about music, I talk about honesty and soul-baring and blah blah blah. I don’t know if Heather Luttrell is as much of a whiskey-slinging femme fatale as she portrays herself to be in her music. But…
Betse Ellis is a bad-ass motherfucker. You probably wouldn’t have guess she played fiddle from my telling you that. But you’re going to have to listen to believe it. She plays fiddle like a fury and her backing band is…
I took a trip overseas a few weeks ago. I often get CDs from various PR companies, so I figured there’d be no better time to go through my stack than being stuck on a transatlantic flight. I know I…
There’s something to be said for simplicity. After all, folk music is for folk to play — not just backwoods ramblers who have nothing better to do than learn how to fingerpick (I’m looking at you, bluegrass.) The 9 songs…
Tapedeck Heart completely escaped my notice when it came out earlier this year. The blogs I follow barely mentioned it (if it all.) I only found it when I was having an ironic suburban weekend with my hipster friends and…
It’s an album called Beergrass by a band called The Mother Corn Shuckers. It’s pretty much what you’d expect. That’s not a bad thing. Repeat offenders here on A&T, this surferbilly collective is all about having a grand old time.…