Posts Tagged ‘Hank Williams’

Hank Williams “Revealed: The Unreleased Recordings” Time Life

This set is not for the uninitiated, looking for a primer on Hank Williams. This is not a balanced overview of his career (Given it was recorded a couple of years before he died, there were a lot of major songs he had yet to record.), but it does have a dozen of his better-known songs. There are...

December 1st, 2009 | Features, Record Reviews | Read More

CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album.

Rosanne Cash’s new album, The List, could be called the Dead Sea Scrolls of country music. A strange analogy, but an entirely apt one for a disc with twelve tracks by Cash from a list of 100 essential country and roots songs compiled for her by her father, the legendary Johnny Cash, when she was...

November 17th, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

It’s Just Like Seeing a Hank Williams Show. Sort of.

You know Time Life? That company that does the “Sweet Sounds of the ’70s” 22-disc anthologies with all the Rod Stewart songs you never knew you secretly loved? Well, now they’ve made a box set for those of you who love Hank Williams but were born several decades after his tragic...

October 8th, 2009 | Features | Read More

Album Review: James Hand–Shadow on the Ground

James Hand—Shadow on the Ground—Rounder–2009 James Hand is countrier than you. In fact, he was country before (and while and after) country was cool—the 57-year-old has been playing his point-blank honky-tonk in Texas roadhouses since he was in his teens, and now, four decades on, he is...

August 22nd, 2009 | Features, Record Reviews | Read More

Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, and Dierks Bentley at Columbus Crew Stadium

It was a HOT night in Columbus Ohio, August 9, 2009 for a record setting, sold out crowd at the Columbus Crew stadium for Rascal Flatts! Their new hit “Summer Nights” was the opening song set against a multi screen display of Americana images and pyrotechnics. As Jay, Gary, and Joe...

August 10th, 2009 | Concert & Tour Reviews, Features | Read More

J.B. Beverley and the Wayward Drifters “Watch America Roll By” Helltrain

The fact that “Virginia’s hardcore honky tonkers” reference Johnny Cash and Hank Williams (and to a somewhat lesser degree Merle Haggard) on their myspace page doesn’t shock me because those names still have some level of cool factor in certain circles, but when they drop Jimmie Rodgers’ name,...

July 21st, 2009 | Record Reviews | Read More

Cash'd Out Interview

By Juliette Vera Johnny Cash is no doubt a country music legend. His name, face, and baritone voice are forever imbedded in the minds of his fans. Cash sold more than 90 million albums in his 53 year music career. While there’s no other man like him, one group of musicians has brought his flare,...

January 12th, 2009 | Interviews | Read More

Jamey Johnson “That Lonesome Song” Mercury Nashville

Raw. Real. Rebelicious. County music’s newest outlaw, Jamey Johnson, belongs in the ranks of Hank, Merle and Walylon. His sophmore album, That Lonesome Song, is a train ride of hard-living, hard-drinking and heartache, the kind of music that can be felt in your gut no matter how many times you’ve...

January 12th, 2009 | Record Reviews | Read More

Charlie Haden with Family and Friends "Rambling Boy" Decca Records

By Joseph Scott Charlie Haden’s place in music history is secure. As the bassist with Ornette Coleman on the avant-garde masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come, Mr. Haden’s “harmelodic” style of bass playing broke new ground and shed new light on just what could be done on an...

December 3rd, 2008 | Record Reviews | Read More

Flinn Pomeroy Interview

By Travis Mamone Flinn Pomeroy may not be a well-known name yet, but be on the lookout for this up-and-coming singer/songwriter. Originally from Maryland, the 22-year-old has made rounds in the Maryland and Boston music scenes, and is now creating a buzz with her band the Whiskey Moustache in Nashville....

December 1st, 2008 | Interviews | Read More