Ryan Curtis’s gravelly voice will almost certainly remind you of your favorite Americana Dude. His songs of road dogging, hard living, and heartbreak are skillfully executed and stand up to the best of them. Where It Ain’t Easy stands out…
Raised in the Ozarks, Kimberly Atwood’s core is rooted in her small-town, close-knit family upbringing. With a blue collar heritage and unshakable dream, Atwood relocated to Nashville determined to add dimension to her distinctive classic country sound. Atwood’s new song,…
There are few good things to say about pop country right now but the people who are doing good work deserve your ears, and Hailey Whitters is one of them. Whitters’ early material has a deliciously bitter edge, and after…
When I started this blog eleven years ago, I thought I had it mostly figured it out. I had the career stuff down, I was making good money for a 22-year-old, and I was doing what I’d always wanted to…
Murder has always been a part of country music, but on Stefanie Joyce’s “Resurrection Day,” sometimes the person you need to murder is yourself. Joyce, who hails from the Pacific Northwest, throws joyful classic country touches into this song of…