By Megan Bledsoe Almost exactly six years after The Damn Quails announced their indefinite hiatus in June 2016 , leaving a hole in the Texas...

By Megan Bledsoe For years now, Kaitlin Butts has been releasing singles, slaying live performances, and generally making us all--or at leas...

By Megan Bledsoe When we think of country music and the places from which it is inspired, what comes to mind? Is it the Georgia clay and the...

These were counted in our year end poll.   By Megan Bledsoe ------- 11. Brandi Carlile— In These Silent Days 10. Jack Ingram, Miranda Lamber...

By Megan Bledsoe The idea that Jason Boland’s latest album is a concept record about alien abduction will be polarizing to many. It will be ...

By Megan Bledsoe In order to fully understand and appreciate the debut album from RC and the Ambers, one thing must first be firmly establis...

~Megan Bledsoe ---------- 11. Zephaniah OHora—Listening to the Music 10. Sturgill Simpson—Cuttin’ Grass, Volume 1 As someone who has never r...

By Megan Bledsoe "Everything is a little less worse when someone sees you like a person.” This line from the eighth track of Stephanie ...

By Megan Bledsoe Music Row is rife with country artists either obsessed with proving their Southern street cred or lamenting the restri...

By Megan Bledsoe It’s either a hilarious coincidence or an intentional and profound irony that the first line of this album is: “Don’t ...

By Megan Bledsoe In these divisive and uncertain times, one thing we can all agree on is our collective longing for the triumphant retu...

  By Megan Bledsoe There are few figures in country music as inherently cool as Steve Earle. An influence on many younger country and...