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Various Artists – Bloodshot Records, Bloodshot Records Sampler

In truth, Bloodshot Records’ future was revealed in the title of the first album they released nearly 20 years ago: For a Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country. Though their roster has, over time,...

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Angel Olsen, Half Way Home

Making sense of the journey from lost to found“You won’t always be walking the safest street/ but you can find your way home,” Angel Olsen sings in “Lonely Universe,” from her sophomore album Half Way...

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Bowerbirds, The Clearing

Celebrating new beginningsIn “Overcome with Light,” Bowerbirds’ Phil Moore and Beth Tacular sing, “Yes, we had some hard work, but now it’s right.” Their lush third LP, The Clearing, is about...

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Aaron Embry, Tiny Prayers

Showy in the least showy way possibleThe brother of actor Ethan Embry (Can’t Hardly Wait), Aaron Embry took his sweet time making his solo debut. The 36-year-old musician paid his dues as a sideman for...

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Discover: ATO Records

It can be difficult keeping up with the weekly avalanche of new music, but if you’ve missed out on the recent crop of releases from ATO Records, you’re doing yourself a serious injustice. There’s the...

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2012 Breakthrough: Cold Specks

File under: Music of the Deep South — blues and field recordings For fans of: Mirel Wagner, Florence + The Machine, Adele, Odetta, Mahalia Jackson From: London, U.K., via Canada Personae: Al Spx...

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Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, Buddy and Jim

A solid collection rooted in classic country balladry and rockabilly rambunctiousnessGrammy-winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale’s meet-up with his old friend (and Sirius radio co-host) Buddy...

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eMusic’s #1 Album of 2012: Cold Specks’ I Predict a Graceful Expulsion

In concerts over the course of the last year Al Spx, the woman who writes, records and performs as Cold Specks, has been starting sets with an a cappella rendition of the old Elizabeth Cotten reel...

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Various Artists, West of Memphis: Voices for Justice

A celebratory compilation honoring the West Memphis 3West of Memphis: Voices for Justice, which is not quite a soundtrack to the new documentary about the West Memphis 3, opens with Henry Rollins...

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Henry Wagons, “Expecting Company?”

Darker, jazzier turns that steer toward spaghetti-western territoryIf your introduction to Australian artist Henry Wagons came via his eponymously named alt-country ensemble Wagons, his solo debut may...

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Don Rich, Don Rich Sings George Jones

One country music's most inventive, influential and unsung guitar playersThroughout the 1960s and ’70s, Don Rich played lead guitar in Buck Owens’s backing band the Buckaroos, laying down licks on huge...

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Buck Owens, Honky Tonk Man: Buck Sings Country Classics

Representing nearly 50 years of wide-ranging country musicOriginally recorded for the notoriously corny hillbilly sketch comedy series Hee Haw, the covers on the new Buck Owens comp Honky Tonk Man...

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Kris Kristofferson, Feeling Mortal

Contemplative and pensive, without a trace of regretWhen Rick Rubin trekked down to record Johnny Cash in his living room back in 1993, he unwittingly set off a trend: Performers from America’s pop...

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Interview: Kris Kristofferson

All country singers should have a chance to go out like Kris Kristofferson. Throughout his last few albums, he has explored what it means to come to the end of a long road, with a sober understanding...

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Frontier Ruckus, Eternity of Dimming

Turning America's past and present into lost brothersA strip-mall’s worth of stores occupies the lyrics of Matthew Milia. The frontman of Frontier Ruckus loads his verse with references to CVS, J.C....

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eMusic’s Alternate-Universe GRAMMY Nominees

Let’s be honest: The Grammys are a great spectacle and fun bit of junk food TV, but few of us take it seriously as any kind of measurement of musical innovation. Even this year, when more indie-bred...

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Tim McGraw, Two Lanes of Freedom

Something to count on in an ever-changing worldIf God made old country roads for driving and dreaming, as is claimed on Two Lanes of Freedom‘s stomping opener, then perhaps he made Tim McGraw albums to...

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Richard Thompson, Electric

The great British guitarist-songwriter plugs inNearly everyone is found guilty in a Richard Thompson song. Take the horny geezer in “Walking on Stony Ground,” the opening track on Electric, the great...

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Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, Cheater’s Game

A masterful mix of originals and covers from alt-country's all-star coupleMarried for 17 years, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison have kept their recording careers separate, aside from a low-profile...

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The Namedroppers: Getting to the Bottom of 10 Musical Shout-Outs

Musicians are narcissists. It’s the chief qualification for getting on stage and soaking in the adulation of the masses. So when a band or a songwriter references another performer in a song, there’s...

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