"Looking back, I wasn’t so bad. “Dropping out of high school at the age of 16 to pursue a career in art wasn’t an option,” admits Everett Raymond...
Doomed to Be an Artist
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Corinne Brown
The Moon was Blue
Coproduced by Bobby Bare, Jr., this comeback album is the legend’s first in 22 years. For the uninitiated, Bare, Sr. has been around long enough to...
I Believe
In Hampton’s own words, I Believe is “a celebration of faith and personal testimony.” With credit to songwriter Stuart Hamblen for most of the...
Journeys
If cutting a CD is your dream, let Khoury show you how. Take some homegrown talent, some proven classics from the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll and...
A Cowboy’s Cowboy-song Singer
Everybody loves the Westerns Channel—beloved reruns of famous Westerns, with TV legends Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy, and classic cowboys like...
Haunted by Hardin
The ghost of the infamous John Wesley Hardin is a hard one to kill. Just ask Leon Metz, one of the most meticulous researchers in the field of...
Jubilee
Exuberant might be another title for this high energy album, which is a callback to the good ol’ days when Rock ‘n’ Roll was fun and Country made...
Anchored in the Land
Some may say it’s his voice, textured like barn wood: soft, weathered and grainy. Or the way he wears his hat—to one side, casting a shadow over...
Too Cool to be a Cowboy
Forget all the clichés about singin’ cowboys—some are just too hard to label, especially when they turn out to be a mix of Southern charm and true...
Beadwrangler Makes Magic
It could be the jewel tones of the lofty Sangre de Cristos or the perfect clarity of the crisp Rocky Mountain air that gives Susie Cotcher her...
Molly Venter
With a strong voice the texture of fine suede, this Austin-based folksinger puts prose to music, sung strong and sweet with a great vibrato,...
Cowboy Cool
Somewhere between Pop Country and Cowboy Western you’ll find the music of Royal Wade Kimes, a Nashville pro whose sound is soulful, sexy and...