Gott damm this is amazing, hair-curling stuff. Left Lane Cruiser has been tearing up the pavement with their freakish garage blues for some time now. Today, they release their third studio album. At first I was a little dubious of…

Zachary Lucky’s new album is a stunner. The Sasketchawan native brings the lonely, wide open spaces to his music. He’s as lonely cowboy as you can get. The Ballad of Losing You is, in essence, a breakup album. It’s stark…

We Can Be Horses, the first full-length album from Milwaukee-based Buffalo Gospel, is a stunner. Like a hit-you-between-the-eyes-and-you-didn’t-know-what-happened kind of deal. Buffalo Gospel’s work is a fine example of modern, minimalist Americana. Vaguely melancholy, cautiously optimistic, 100% moving. The band’s…

For those of you who, like me, need to brush up on your folk music history, Alice Gerrard is a living legend. One of the first musicians — let alone ladies — to popularize bluegrass among ’60s hipsters, she also…

It’s not hard to imagine Hezekiah Goode riding along the plain, running down a stray bull with a lasso in hand. Or whatever. He just sounds so much like what a cowboy should that I feel like that’s just where…