5CD set featuring two solo albums from The Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers member, plus solo live recordings spanning his career and a live album from the Gene Parsons Band, along with unreleased studio demos.
Recorded between multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons’ membership of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, his 1973 debut solo album ‘Kindling’ is a country rock and bluegrass classic that also features his friend and fellow ex-Byrd Clarence White on several tracks. Parsons demonstrates his versatility by contributing guitar, banjo, pedal steel, harmonica, bass and drums.
Acclaimed author of Are You Ready for the Country, Peter Doggett has written the notes for this box and describes ‘Kindling’ as “a joyous…
Category: country-rock
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Lou Reed became interested in Americana and recorded with Gram Parsons? Well, if that unlikely combination seems intriguing, then The Nude Party’s Look Who’s Back is for you.
Of course, that oversimplifies the group’s sound, but those two touchpoints are the chocolate-and-peanut combo that makes this record such a tasty listen. The septet is Patton Magee – Vocals, Harmonica, Guitars, Shaun Couture – Vocals, Guitars, Connor Mikita – Drums, Backing Vocals, Alec Castillo – Bass, Backing Vocals, Zachary Merrill – Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals, Austin Brose – Percussion, Backing Vocals, Jon “Catfish” Delorme – Pedal steel, Dobro who have been together for over twelve years now.
The Kentucky Headhunters have reissued Big Boss Man, a one-of-a-kind project originally recorded in partnership with Sony/ATV Music Publishing two decades ago.
Long considered a hidden gem within the band’s catalog, Big Boss Man returns as a newly remastered, fully restored project, released on the band’s own Practice House Records label. The origins of the project go back to 2005, when then Sony/ATV President Donna Hilley, compilation supervisor Jack Jackson and creative director of new music Tom Long, approached The Headhunters with an idea to take 12 classics from the Sony/ATV catalog and “Headhunterize” them, infusing each song with the group’s signature energy. The purpose behind the project was to breathe…
“One, two, one-one-one-one…” are the first words you hear as frontman/singer/songwriter Cody Cannon and his longtime band kick off Whiskey Myers’ seventh studio album, released Sept. 26, with an exuberant bang.
The drums click out an ominous beat, perhaps mimicking a lit fuse, appropriate for opening track “Time Bomb” as Cannon sings “I’m waiting around to explode/Praying for another day.” The three guitar lineup twists, tangles and grinds out serious Southern grease and we’re off into another impressive entry of Myers’ exemplary catalog.
The East Texas bred six-piece has been honing its rugged red clay blues/country roots since forming in 2007, touring constantly and winning fans one stop at a time on the endless road.
“We believe in some pretty strict rules,” says Pink Stones frontman Hunter Pinkston. “We also believe in breaking them. This band was built on reimagining tradition, on honoring the old ways while pushing them someplace new.” On their intoxicating new album, Thank the Lord… it’s The Pink Stones, Pinkston and his bandmates do precisely that, offering up a joyful, adventurous take on ’60s twang that blurs the lines between cosmic country, folk, bluegrass, soul, and psychedelic rock. Recorded once again with co-producer/engineer Henry Barbe (Drive-By Truckers, Deerhunter) in the band’s hometown of Athens, GA, the collection showcases a more deliberate, mature side of The Pink Stones’ sound, one that reflects all the personal and sonic growth…
Southern rockers Robert Jon & The Wreck’s new album Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes is set to release on August 22 via Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records. Produced by nine-time Grammy winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Rival Sons), it’s RJ&TW’s ninth studio album-hard to believe-this band continues to develop and sound fresh.
Recorded in Savannah, GA, the band lived together throughout the writing and recording process. The album is cohesive, reflecting a laser focus on the material and the band’s interconnectedness. It’s raw and edgy but somehow their most compact. Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes is certainly the best RJ&TW album to date. It reflects their evolution as a band with sharp musicianship…
The Magic Time Machine of Love finds Nashville’s Burrito Brothers-Chris P. James (vocals/keys), Bob Hatter (guitars), Tony Paoletta (pedal steel) and Peter Young (drums)-pushing cosmic-American music into tomorrow with eleven tracks that mingle fresh songwriting with daring reinventions: Gram Parsons’ voice, isolated via the same AI technology used on the Beatles’ “Now and Then,” soars alongside the band on “Pride of Man” and “More and More,” while Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” appears in a lush country-soul arrangement restoring Keith Reid’s unused verses. Original Flying Burrito alumni Jon Corneal and Ian Dunlop swagger through “Used to Do,” steel-guitar legend Al Perkins adds shimmer to “More and More,” and the James Brothers lend harmonies…
Blue Rodeo’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2, released in 2025, is a 14-track collection celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary, featuring fan favorites from their entire career, from “Outskirts” to “Many a Mile”. The album includes two new tracks: a cover of The Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody” and the piano-driven ballad “After the Rain”.
“Greatest Hits Vol. 2” is a well-regarded collection for both long-time fans and those new to Blue Rodeo. The album’s comprehensive nature, strong new material, and good sound quality contribute to its positive reception. However, established fans might find it redundant if they already own the band’s core albums.
Reviewers on Amazon.com found the album to be a great introduction to Blue Rodeo…
Clarence Tilton is a five-piece band from Omaha, Nebraska, featuring brothers Chris Weber, guitar and vocals, and Corey Weber, guitar, vocals, and pedal steel, who grew up in a small agricultural town where the cattle outnumbered the people by ten to one. Having learnt guitar on borrowed instruments and bonded over such influences as The Allman Brothers, Neil Young, Son Volt, and The Flying Burrito Brothers, the brothers eventually joined forces with Craig Meler on bass, Paul Novak, guitar and vocals, and Jarron Wayne Storm on drums, percussion, and vocals releasing their eponymous debut album in 2015. It would be another four years before their somewhat ironically entitled follow-up, Start Already Lost, would see the light of day, only for…
Christian Parker and company’s Back at Home is a natural extension of these same musicians’ previous – and equally unaffected – tributes to the Byrds. 2023’s Sweethearts: A Tribute to the Byrds’ ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo, offers their homage to that group’s original landmark fusion of rock and country, while the very next year’s Change Is Now is a more general acclamation of the iconic American band’s eclectic approach.
In what may well be the first entry in a series–at least based on its main title American Cosmic Revival Volume I — Parker and his sympathetic bandmates now delve further into the earliest work of Gram Parsons. The late singer and songwriter’s International Submarine Band was integral to the formulation of the hybrid that…