Sometimes, all you really need are some good and passionate country one-hit wonders to get you through your day.

Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

The event honored the best of Nashville's independent songwriters and publishers, including Jessie Jo Dillon and Jon Decious.

In this Martin D Jr E StreetLegend Burst review, I’ll walk you through the guitar’s features and appointments and give my ...

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At its best, the record is a warm sonic embrace neatly wrapped around lovely poetic musings evocative of Imagist poetry.

Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

Bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom met in high school in Phoenix and started their first punk band, Atomic Bomb Club, in the late ’70s. Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on ...

Gary Louris returns to Minneapolis this week to promote "Dark Country," a solo album he wrote after falling in love and moving to rural Quebec, Canada. (Steve Cohen) ...

Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on guitar and vocals in 1980 ... the Arizona desert with a deeply unique mix of hardcore, country, and psychedelic rock, the Meat Puppets signed ...

By Tom Roland Plenty of country songs have rested through the years on the drinking habits of the lonely. Merle Haggard’s “Misery and Gin,” Moe Bandy’s “Barstool Mountain” and The ...