Rodeo clowns bring levity to the drama and muscle of cattle and man — a titanic struggle that can be a metaphor for just about anything. With his rodeo days behind him, Sloppy Scales sets his sights on political satire,…
Lake & Lyndale engage in deft storytelling and wordplay on their latest song “The Man Upstairs.” Originally hailing from Minneapolis (the band’s name is a tribute to their hometown), the Nashville quartet weds keen musicianship with the lush pop country…
Urban cowboy Charles Ellsworth asks how we can possibly cope with the continuing to feed the rich while our tables become ever more bare on his new song, “The Gates.” This is the first single off the New York-based singer-songwriter’s…
Texas-bred singer/songwriter Helene Cronin describes herself as a “story-singer,” and her new song “Maybe New Mexico” contains more in three verses than most pack into an album. Cronin is on a mission to bring to life stories and ideas that…
You know that in your mind’s eye, you’ve wanted to saunter up to that one asshole and hit ’em square in the jaw. “Try Jesus” by Ella Salter and the Sunday Sinners is the soundtrack for that mental movie. Salter’s…