The long-overdue return of Love and Theft, a twangy slice of Possum country from Whiskey Wolves of the West and Sheryl Crow’s stunning duet with Johnny Cash make up the tracks you must hear this week.
Whiskey Wolves of the West, “Just One of Those Things”
A country weeper filled with pedal steel and delayed vocals, “Just One of Those Things” finds the Nashville-based act of Leroy Powell and Tim Jones getting cinematic and sentimental. Bassist Dean Tomasek co-wrote the song with Powell, who sings in a dramatic croon...
Whiskey Wolves of the West, “Just One of Those Things”
A country weeper filled with pedal steel and delayed vocals, “Just One of Those Things” finds the Nashville-based act of Leroy Powell and Tim Jones getting cinematic and sentimental. Bassist Dean Tomasek co-wrote the song with Powell, who sings in a dramatic croon...
- 4/22/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
For the finale of the Loretta Lynn birthday concert in Nashville on Monday night, the majority of the all-star cast returned to the stage to sing “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” a motley crew of Tanya Tucker, Brandi Carlile and Dennis Quaid all gathered around the guest of honor. It was a tenuous moment, with the soon-to-be 87-year-old Lynn emphatically shaking off her sister Crystal Gayle’s overture for her to sing her signature song. “I don’t wanna,” Lynn said.
But then, at the start of the second verse, Lynn seized the moment.
But then, at the start of the second verse, Lynn seized the moment.
- 4/2/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The 2018 Americana Music Festival and Conference brought hundreds of artists to Nashville for six days of sweaty showcases, elbow-to-elbow day parties and probing panels. Powerful new solo voices emerged, rock bands proved their place in the genre, and the old Americana guard reinforced their legend status. Here’s the best things we saw.
Best Speak Your Mind: Tyler Childers
If it were a just world, Tyler Childers would have already won a new artist award at either (or both) the Cma Awards or the ACMs. Instead, the Kentucky songwriter was...
Best Speak Your Mind: Tyler Childers
If it were a just world, Tyler Childers would have already won a new artist award at either (or both) the Cma Awards or the ACMs. Instead, the Kentucky songwriter was...
- 9/17/2018
- by Jon Freeman, Jeff Gage, Adam Gold, Joseph Hudak, Brittney McKenna and Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
The timing was appropriate: The opening night of AmericanaFest, landing on Patriot Day, with a who’s who of Americana music gathered together at the Basement East in Nashville to sing songs of protest and political discontent. Mostly, though, they were all there to have fun.
An unofficial kickoff to the week’s festivities, the Tuesday night party has become an annual tradition for the Music City festival, but this year’s event — with Whiskey Wolves of the West, Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys, and Andrew Leahey and...
An unofficial kickoff to the week’s festivities, the Tuesday night party has become an annual tradition for the Music City festival, but this year’s event — with Whiskey Wolves of the West, Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys, and Andrew Leahey and...
- 9/12/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Paul Cauthen is bringing his Big Velvet Revue to Nashville this fall with an official AmericanaFest showcase at the Basement East that will feature Aaron Lee Tasjan, Bj Barham of American Aquarium, and Brandy Zdan.
A concept first introduced by the Texas country belter at South by Southwest last March, the Big Velvet Revue returns with the new wrinkle of a house band, Whiskey Wolves of the West, the brainchild of Music City vets Leroy Powell and Tim Jones. They’ll be backing up each of the night’s performers,...
A concept first introduced by the Texas country belter at South by Southwest last March, the Big Velvet Revue returns with the new wrinkle of a house band, Whiskey Wolves of the West, the brainchild of Music City vets Leroy Powell and Tim Jones. They’ll be backing up each of the night’s performers,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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