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...
The Moon was Blue
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Western Music
BACK HOME IN SULPHUR SPRINGS
When Norman Blake cut the album Home in Sulphur Springs in 1972, the man sounded old and weathered and wise. So you can imagine how he sounds on...
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...
Calsong
Telling of mountain peaks brushing Western skies, rainbows sparkling from a river’s spray and frontier sagas of yesteryear, Cyrus Clarke delivers up...
Right out of Nowhere
Ms. Mattea has thrust her heart on both sleeves with her latest release Right out of Nowhere. The emotion this artist presents in her musical...
This Weary World
Talk about paying your dues. This is Wayne Scott’s recording debut at age 71, after decades of working in auto factories, steel mills and putting up...
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...
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...
Home to You
If you’ve seen O Brother, Where Art Thou, you’ll recognize the Peasall Sisters. They played George Clooney’s daughters on film and recorded “In the...
The Best of New Mexico Western
New Mexico has a population of under two million, but it sure seems like more than half of them play Country and Western—and do so very well, thank...
Country Music Without Prejudice
Big and Rich have reached the heights. To be a little more specific, they’ve scaled some Western U.S. mountain peaks over 14,000 feet high. The boys...