…Waylon Payne released his first album, The Drifter, in 2004, yet it took 16 years for the second one, Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me to appear. Now 6 years on, we have, in Payne’s own words, “the third instalment”. As Payne offered in a recent interview with Americana UK, “That’s what I’ve been joking about. I kind of loosely call it Volume Three in a ‘Life Well Lived’ series”. He likes to tell stories, and it’s clear that the album provides a continuation of the stories told in his previous records.
Payne is very much from the country ‘outlaw’ tradition. His mother was GRAMMY® Award-winning country singer Sammi Smith, and his father was a longtime member of Willie Nelson’s band, guitarist Jody Payne. He was named…
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Alternate Routes is Reckless Kelly’s reclamation project: re-recordings of fan favorites they no longer owned, inspired by artists like Taylor Swift and John Fogerty who fought similar battles over their masters.
A dozen records into his career, Canadian country musician 
Recorded in Nashville with producer Steven Wood and featuring a veritable who’s who of premier Nashville studio musicians, 
Scarborough-based 
On 
Multi-platinum country artist and STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis releases his latest solo album, 
West Virginia’s John R. Miller gratifies a whole host of musical erogenous zones on his new album 
The hard-living country singer/songwriter 
The colorful combination of names on this collaboration is indicative of the vibrant music they create together. Americana singer/songwriter 
Trever M. Keith, frontman for the Southern California pop-punk band Face to Face, has released an homage to country music, We Drank from a Poisoned Well. This isn’t as unlikely as it sounds.
The title of Willow Avalon’s new album, Pink Pocket Pistol, suggests she wants to have it both ways. She has a soft, feminine side as indicated by the color and small size of her gun.
Thanks to steady gigging around his adopted hometown of Chicago, paired with a beautiful, hypnotic voice, Andrew Sa has been dubbed Chicago’s premier queer country crooner. His debut, American Rough, may just make that title national. With a voice that seems to channel Roy Orbison, you can also hear traces of everyone from Chris Isaak to the late Raul Malo in Sa’s swooning vocals. American Rough is a romantic’s record, delivering songs about falling in love and all of the emotions tied to it, vacillating from euphoria to sadness, all set against a beautiful folk-country soundscape.
Describing himself as an alt-country artist, St Louis native Adam Gaffney has actually created an album that is full of real country songs, sounding like they’ve come straight from a barroom or dance hall. Product of Another Sad Song is clearly an extremely personal journey for Gaffney, as it holds stories of the loss of his mother, and his own battle to overcome alcohol use, as well as reflecting on love lost and found. If that all sounds like it may be a little intense and hard going, fear not! This is music that is frequently up-tempo, joyous and toe-tapping. Heavy on honky tonk piano and pedal steel that dances around the tunes as much as it weeps, the comparison to a modern-day Buck Owens makes total sense.
On his third LP, Tender Country, 
…includes three bonus tracks: covers of Eddie Murphy’s “Party All the Time,” William Bell’s “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” and Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale.”