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Tweet Share Slowly but surely, the live-music economy is starting back up in a limited capacity — and in enough places that artists are planning tours! But musicians across Nashville’s constellation of music scenes continue to release great records at a brisk pace, and our writers have seven new titles to recommend. Add ’em to your streaming queue or get a physical copy from your favorite record store. Or drop them on your wishlist for #BandcampFriday — the promotion in which the platform waives its cut of artist fees — coming up on May 7. Also check o...

Charley Patton   Mississippi Boweavil Blues Down the Dirt Road Blues Pony Blues Pea Vine Blues Prayer of Death, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton, Traditional Prayer of Death, Pt. 2 - Charley Patton, Traditional Lord, I'm Discouraged Elder Greene Blues - Charley Patton, Patton Circle Round the Moon Mean Black Cat Blues   Some These Days I'll Be Gone Green River Blues Magnolia Blues Heart Like Railroad Steel Jim Lee Blues, Pt. 1 Kim Lee Blues, Pt. 2 - Charley Patton, High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2 Jesue Is a Dying-Bed Maker - Charley Patton, I Shall Not Be Moved - Charley P...

Judging by the song titles on Americana artist Cristina Vane’s debut full-length album, Nowhere Sounds Lovely, one might think it’s a collection of covers. The ten tracks have familiar names such as “Blueberry Hill”, “Badlands”, and “Travelin’ Blues”. But Vane’s not offering her interpretations of classics by Fats Domino, Bruce Springsteen, or Blind Willie McTell. Instead, she finds inspiration in the same things that stimulated the other artists: the American landscape, the open road, and the itch to keep moving. Vane was born in Italy and grew up in Europe before headin...

Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 4 a.m. Peter Guralnick didn’t set out to be a music journalist. The occupation didn’t really exist at the time when a combination of luck and bluster led the obsessive blues fan to interview a “rediscovered” Skip James in 1965 for a non-existent magazine assignment. His piece was eventually published, and it... More Country Music Stories The Houston Press may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. ©2021 Houston Press, LP. All rights reserved...

Sonny Landreth   Shooting for the Moon Turning Wheel C'Est Chaud Great Gulf Wind - Sonny Landreth, Toussaint, Allen Sonny Landreth is a special guitarist. He has combined the idiosyncratic rhythms of his home state, Louisiana, with the intricate finger-picking of Chet Atkins, and the blues-rock slide of Duane Allman, into a distinctive ...   more »style entirely his own. When he was backing up John Hiatt, John Mayall, or Beausoleil, his astonishing guitar licks were all Landreth needed, but now, as a bandleader himself, he has to rely on his songwriting and singing skills, which are c...