Six Pics: Old 97’s, Heartless Bastards And BJ Barham At 9:30 Club
Playing a Monday night in D.C. can be tough for any act, particularly when the gig kicks off at 10…
Tag: Country
Review: Sturgill Simpson, ‘A Sailor’s Guide To Earth’
For Simpson’s first album since his 2014 breakthrough, the inventive country singer crafts a highly personal song cycle about order and insubordination.
Remembering A Country Legend: Merle Haggard On World Cafe
The “Okie from Muskogee” talks life, music and songwriting in this 2003 interview. Haggard died Wednesday morning.
Review: Margo Price, ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter’
A debut solo record, born of both heartache and imagination, is saturated with sounds of ’60s and ’70s Nashville.
Chris Stapleton: Tiny Desk Concert
With his wife Morgane, the country singer-songwriter sings patient, detailed songs of devotion to love, Los Angeles and liquor.
Review: Old Dominion, ‘Meat And Candy’
The fast-rising country band brings first-rate craftsmanship to one of popular music’s abiding themes: savoring fleeting pleasures.
First Listen: Maddie & Tae, ‘Start Here’
With a sound rooted in rich vocal harmonies and acoustic instrumentation, the young country-pop duo explores a sense of living in between childhood and the next thing.
Kacey Musgraves: Tiny Desk Concert
Before closing with the go-your-own-way anthem “Follow Your Arrow,” the country singer showcases four songs from her terrific second album, Pageant Material.
First Listen: Ashley Monroe, ‘The Blade’
A solo singer, go-to collaborator and member of the Pistol Annies, Monroe is a star who’s both arrived and rising: accepted by insiders without losing her veneer of outsider cool.
Ex-Q And Not U Duo Paint Branch Re-Emerges With A New EP
To followers of D.C. indie rock, John Davis and Chris Richards might be familiar names. They toured widely with their…
First Listen: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, ‘Django And Jimmie’
More than three decades after Pancho & Lefty, the country titans pair up again, this time for an album that puts eclecticism front and center.