Trending now

BEAT Brings King Crimson To Life in Nashville, TN

Everclear: An Unforgettable Night Of Late-90s Alt-Rock Nostalgia

Appalachian Aid Benefit Concert@City Winery–Nashville

Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion Tour Shines at Nissan Stadium, Nashville

Shindig Revival Brings Music, Food, and Fashion to the Shoals

Carín León’s Boca Chueca Tour Hits Nashville

John Hartford Fiddle Marathon@American Legion Post 82

John Prine Celebration “You Got Gold” Returns for Third Year

INAUGURAL SOUTH STAR FESTIVAL IN HUNTSVILLE, AL

Thomas Cassell Releases “The Never-Ending Years”

Nashville Live Music

Category : ALBUM REVIEWS

ALBUM REVIEWS INTERVIEWS

SUZY BOGGUSS: LIVE AT CAFFE MILANO

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01826
It didn’t take Suzy Bogguss long to know Nashville was the town for her. She had cut a record in Peoria, Illinois, where she was working six nights a week in bars, listening rooms, and supper clubs. She and two friends wanted to see what Nashville was all about, so......
ALBUM REVIEWS

INTRODUCING AMY JACK

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01908
Amy Jack’s Oklahoma musical roots run deep. Her Scots-Irish great grandparents were among the early settlers who took part in the land run to Western Oklahoma before it was even a state. They brought with them the traditional Scottish and Irish music and instruments that influenced the earliest country music.......
ALBUM REVIEWS

JULIE AND JOHN PENNELL: KEEP ON WALKIN’

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey02462
By the time Julie and John Pennell met at an Ontario Bluegrass festival, they had both begun putting down deep roots in Bluegrass. John played with Vassar Clements and in the early years with Alison Krauss and Union Station.  Growing up in North Bay, Ontario, Julie came from a big......
ALBUM REVIEWS INTERVIEWS

KATY MOFFATT RELEASES CHRYSALIS

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey03526
Chrysalis, the title of the new two-CD release on Sunset Blvd. Records by Katy Moffatt, aptly describes Moffatt’s career, as well as the music appearing on the recording, characterized by transitions.  Chrysalis is a two-CD project pulling together three albums Moffatt recorded ten years apart with guitarist Andrew Hardin: 1988’s Walkin’ On......
ALBUM REVIEWS INTERVIEWS

JONELL MOSSER WITH JOHN HALL: LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey03692
Jonell Mosser has been in the music business long enough to know that timing can be everything, so it should come as no surprise that Little Black Dress, her newly released CD, is finding a wide audience now, all songs recorded during a performance by Mosser and John Hall in May 1991......
ALBUM REVIEWS INTERVIEWS

NATE LEE: WINGS OF A JETLINER

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01782
Certainly since the pioneering days of Bill Monroe, nobody has questioned the mandolin’s rightful place in the bluegrass world, but the instrument is too often relegated to a secondary role. In his new solo CD, Wings of a Jetliner, set for a June 12 release, Nate Lee firmly settles his mandolin front......
ALBUM REVIEWS

RACHEL REINERT LAUNCHES FIRST SOLO CD: INTO THE BLUE

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01016
Rachel Reinert began 2020 with expectations of a busy year. With her first solo project Into the Blue set for a March 15 release, she and husband Caleb Crosby took a quick trip to Florida, she says, “just to clear my head. But as soon as we got back to Nashville,......
ALBUM REVIEWS

The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project: Vol. I

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01796
In 2018, Matt Combs, Katie Harford Hogue, and Greg Reish completed a truly mammoth project, John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes, including original tunes, the musical notation works of art, rendered by the hand of the late musical icon taken from his collection of notebooks, along with photos and stories......
ALBUM REVIEWS

OLD TIN: CD RELEASE BY ERYNN MARSHALL AND CARL JONES

Nancy Posey
by Nancy Posey01255
In a recent interview, James Taylor said that he had taken it as a true compliment when Paul McCartney thought his song “Mean Old Man” was an old standard. On their new CD Old Tin, Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones manage such a perfect blend of original tunes and Old Time......