Author Archive: Jim Simpson
Album Review: The Essential Highwaymen – (Columbia)
By Jon Black — If one were to parse the entire pantheon of country music heroes for a quartet [...]
Win a Copy of Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
CONGRATULATIONS to LC and Raina! We’ll be mailing the CDs to you directly. Everyone else, [...]
Charlie Louvin: The Battles Rage On
A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the longest living member of the Grand Old Opry, [...]
Album Review: Marshall Chapman – “Big Lonesome” (TallGirl Records)
We’re a simple music magazine — we’re not the very serious International Society [...]
New Release: The Band Perry
The Band Perry is having a great start this release week! Their self-titled debut album is #10 on [...]
Q&A with The Secret Sisters – (Way More Than 12 Questions)
Honest and meaningful music is what caught T. Bone Burnett’s ear. The Secret Sisters certainly [...]
Contest Giveaway: Signed Copies of Marty Stuart’s Ghost Train
That’s right, we’re giving away TWO copies of Marty Stuart’s critically acclaimed Ghost Train: [...]
Contest Giveaway: Pete Seeger’s new CD
The great Satchel Paige famously said, “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t [...]
Contest Giveaway: Signed copy of Rosanne Cash memoir, Composed
We were fortunate enough to meet up with Rosanne Cash backstage at a recent performance/reading at [...]
Book Review: Rosanne Cash – Composed (a memoir)
Rosanne Cash, firstborn child of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, was a [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High
With fingers flying across acoustic strings and a sound blending the finest traditions of American [...]
Charlie Louvin – Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, Waycross, GA – (Tompkins Square Records)
This review comes on the heels of some unfortunate news, as Charlie Louvin was recently diagnosed [...]
Merle Haggard: Country Music Traditionalist, Internet Prophet
In April 2010, Merle Haggard’s latest album, I Am What I Am hit stores and radio stations around [...]
Those Darlins Summer/Fall Tour Schedule
Here’s their full schedule through the first of October, so you have no excuses not to get out [...]
Spotlight on Megan McCormick – “Honest Words”
Out of the wilds of Idaho and Alaska, Megan McCormick has settled in Nashville. Her fiery debut, [...]
Jim Avett Talks About Family, Nashville, New CD “Tribes”
When asked about his plans for Father’s Day, Jim Avett simply said, “Not a thing. [...]
Win Free Copies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s New CD!
We love Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new CD, The Age of Miracles. Judging by the emails we’ve [...]
12 Questions with Derek Hoke
Twelve is an iconic number. There were the 12 Tribes of Israel, there are 12 eggs in a dozen, and [...]
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Age of Miracles – (Zoe/Rounder Records)
Five-time Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter is lucky to be alive. She suffered a pulmonary [...]
Nashville Scene: How NOT to Act at Bonnaroo
Middle Tennessee is the place to be. Yes, the Big B. Bonnaroo. For those of you who’ve been [...]









