Feb 2, 2024
Jamie Lin Wilson & Wade Bowen / “Reconsider” (Robison/Gattis Cover) / Mile 0 Fest
Sep 20, 2023
New Video / Wade Bowen / "Lovin' Not Leavin'"
Sep 29, 2022
25 Favorite Albums of 2022: 3/4 Report
2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Aaron Raitiere - Single Wide Dreamer
4. 49 Winchester - Fortune Favors the Bold
5. Ben Chapman - Make the Night Better
6. Ian Noe - River Fools & Mountain Saints
7. The Vandoliers - s/t
8. The Wilder Blue - s/t
9. Kelsey Waldon - No Regular Dog
10. Joshua Hedley - Neon Blue
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11. Wade Bowen - Somewhere Between the Secret and the Truth
12. Amanda Shires - Take it Like a Man
13. Jason Scott and the High Heat - Castle Rock
14. Tami Neilson - Kingmaker
15. Arlo McKinley - This Mess We’re In
16. Band of Horses - Things Are Great
17. Michaela Anne - Oh to Be That Free
18. Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry
19. Hailey Whitters - Raised
20. Drew Kennedy - Marathon
21. American Aquarium - Chicamacomico
22. The Sheepdogs - Outta Sight
23. Whiskey Myers - Tornillo
24. Yelawolf / Shooter Jennings - Sometimes Y
25. Sarah Shook and the Disarmers - Nightroamer
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Lurking beyond: Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak, Bri Bagwell - Corazon y Cabeza, Tony Logue - Jericho, The Whitmore Sisters - Ghost Stories, Jamestown Revival - Young Man, Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Crooked Tree, Brent Cobb - And Now Turn To
Aug 22, 2022
New Video / Wade Bowen w/Vince Gill / "A Guitar, A Singer, and A Song"
May 3, 2021
Jamie Lin Wilson & Wade Bowen Cover Nicks & Petty at Mile 0 Fest
Jun 11, 2020
Wade Bowen Covers Guy Clark's "Let Him Roll"
Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Night Music / Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen / "Rodeo Clown"
Apr 3, 2019
It Never Ends
Nov 14, 2018
"Standard" Florida-Georgia Line Meme
Apr 3, 2018
Top 20 Albums of 2018 - First Quarter Report
Jan 24, 2018
Wade Bowen Performs "Acuña"
Jan 5, 2018
Hee Haw Country Reaction Gifs
Sep 26, 2017
Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen Perform "Hangin' Out in Bars"
Jul 29, 2017
Saturday Night Music: Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen "Rita Ballou"
Mar 11, 2017
Nov 28, 2016
Wade Bowen Covers Strait's "A Fire I Can't Put Out"
Apr 1, 2016
Album Review: Flatland Cavalry - Humble Folks
This one hits the spot.
I haven't felt much like writing reviews for a while now. It's not that there hasn't been some good music put out this year - just nothing I felt I could put any passion into writing about. Also, since we've brought on the full-barrel punk energy of Robert Dean and the damn near peerless wordsmithery of Kevin Broughton, there hasn't been much need for my everyman type reviewing, but this new album from Flatland Cavalry has pulled me out of mothballs.
Flatland Cavalry's Humble Folks is also the first album of 2016 to stir up all the feelings I like to have when listening to music. From the wistfulness of "A Good Memory" to the driving introspection of "Devil Off My Back," the sentimental wanderlust of "Traveler's Song" to the sad-sack lamenting of "Goodbye Kiss," Humble Folks is a tour-de-force of emotions and textures.
"Easy on the ears, heavy on the heart" reads the description on Flatland Cavalry's website, and that couldn't be more accurate. Their sound is an easygoing mix of red dirt country, pop melodies, laid back swing, and heartworn folk. And there's so much fiddle. Lord, but I love me some fiddle and I love Laura Jane's fiddling. It's all a perfectly accessible approach but one that doesn't scrimp on the craftsmanship and songwriting.
"Tall City Blues" grabs you with its portrayal of loneliness and unfulfilled dreams amid the high-rises and concrete canyons of the city. You can just imagine the twenty-something small town boy taking the accounting job in Houston, then slowly realizing the "difference in making a living and loving what you do."
"Stompin' Grounds" rescues that dispirited fellow back to his home town where the Shiner is cheaper and colder and the people are warmer. There's a lot of that sort of longing in Flatland Cavalry's music - yearning for real interaction and authentic folks. It's a welcome and relatable desire in a world that seems to grow more mean and detached with every passing day.
Humble Folks is a great album; certainly one of my favorites of the early year, and well worth your listen. It's a familiar sound, but one that with repeated listens will reveal deeper layers and twists of melody you haven't heard before. These songs are sure to make you think, smile, hurt, and tap your foot. Sometimes all at once. That's what good music does.
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Flatland Cavalry is a no-doubter for fans of Turnpike Troubadours, Wade Bowen, The Damn Quails, and the like.
You can find Humble Folks on Lonestar Music , iTunes, etc.. (Out today)
Feb 11, 2016
Same Ol' Backroad Song
Dec 29, 2015
FTM's Top 20 Songs of 2015
Oct 12, 2015
Top 30 Albums of 2015: 3/4 Report
Here's my 3/4 of 2015 Favorite Albums list. I'm going to attempt to do a composite among FTM's regular contributors (Matthew, Kelcy, Jeremy, Kevin, and myself) and hopefully have our first team-voted official list (at least a top 10) at the end of December, so this is just a 20% slice here. -Trailer