Jason Isbell Teases TWO New Albums & Releases New Tour Dates
Last week the current King of Americana Music Jason Isbell got fans jazzed by releasing a 30-second teaser video (see below) for his upcoming, but still-unannounced Dave Cobb-produced album that...
View ArticleJason Isbell Announces New Album “The Nashville Sound”
Jason Isbell has officially announced his sixth solo studio album called 'The Nashville Sound.' Produced by long-time collaborator Dave Cobb, recorded at the historic Studio 'A' in Nashville, and to be...
View ArticleSeriously People, You Should Be Paying More Attention to Marty Stuart
We love to speak long and loudly about the virtues of younger, upsurging artists such as Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Cody Jinks, Margo Price, and others, and how they're turning...
View ArticleJason Isbell Releases New Song “Hope The High Road”
One of the things that has made Jason Isbell such an enlightening songwriter over the years is his distinctly worldly view panned to a Southern perspective. As a son of the deep South himself, he is...
View ArticleNew Lindi Ortega, Jason Isbell, Marty Stuart Added to SCM’s Top 25 Current...
Saving Country Music has just added some fresh horses to its recently-launched Top 25 Current Spotify Playlist meant to be a centralized destination for top recommended songs and artists currently...
View ArticleL.A. Weekly Slams Legacy Americana Artists in “10 Lamest Americana Acts” List
So apparently Americana and some of its top artists aren't above criticism by a major media outlet. This is what the independent country and Americana communities had to face down on Friday (3-31) when...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Unlame Americana Acts
Unless you were stuck on an island recently, I'm sure the article called "10 Lamest Americana Acts" by the once prestigious, and now click-hungry newsweekly alternative known as L.A. Weekly passed...
View Article2017 Outlaw Festival Plans Series of Events
The 2017 Outlaw Music Festival will actually be a series of events, or a tour if you will, consisting of six total stops throughout July hitting up New Orleans, Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, Syracuse,...
View ArticleBook Review – John Prine’s “Beyond Words”
It's not very common that you can preface a 70-year-old folk country songwriter that never had a big hit and the 14-year-olds in your family have probably never heard of as a "hot commodity," but...
View ArticleSong Review – Jason Isbell’s “Cumberland Gap”
The second song from Jason Isbell's impending album 'The Nashville Sound' all but certifies what we had suspicions of before and what Isbell has been saying in the media previously, which is the June...
View ArticleJason Isbell Adds Two New Months of 2017 Tour Dates
Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit are readying the release of his latest record The Nashville Sound on June 16th, and his live calendar has just been bolstered with a bunch of new tour dates in...
View ArticleWe Have A Bigger Problem Now. It’s Sam Hunt’s “Body Like A Backroad.”
"Body Like a Backroad." It looks to shatter even the incredible and previously-thought insurmountable records of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise." Right now we sit in an eerily-similar position as we...
View ArticleAlbum Review – John Moreland’s “Big Bad Luv”
'Big Bad Luv' is exactly the type of album that John Moreland needed to make, where his songcraft suffers none, but is bolstered by the virtue of a more compositional approach to the music itself. And...
View ArticleNominees Announced for the 2017 Americana Music Awards
The Americana Music Association announced the nominees for their 2017 awards on Tuesday afternoon (5-9) via a live press conference from the Country Music Hall of Fame's Ford Theater. Along with...
View ArticleSong Review- Jason Isbell’s “If We Were Vampires”
A love song with avid participation from his wife and singing partner Amanda Shires, the song delves into the sad perspective that forever in a marriage or a relationship is ultimately a relative term....
View ArticleColter Wall, Robyn Ludwick, Jason Isbell + More Added to SCM’s Top 25 Spotify...
2017 is turning out to be a banner year for country and roots music, and we still have some of the most highly-anticipated titles still yet to be released. In an attempt to keep up and help you sift...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Justin Townes Earle’s “Kids in the Street”
Folks who just hopped on the country insurgency train when they heard about Chris Stapleton or Sturgill Simpson may wonder what the deal is with a guy like Justin Townes Earle. Maybe they recognize the...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Best Songs of 2017 So Far
Apologies if you came here looking to replenish your 3rd generation iPod with a fresh platoon of booty shakers. That's not what this practice is all about. Feel good songs are just fine and help fleet...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s “The Nashville Sound”
It's not just talent that sifts certain artists to the top of the heap of their discipline, it is timing. And Jason Isbell is one of the defining artists of our era because he is Southern, and...
View ArticleJason Isbell’s “The Nashville Sound” Goes #1 in Country, #4 Overall
Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit have just notched their best-charting, and best-selling record of Jason Isbell's career with The Nashville Sound. Selling a total of 54,000 units, including...
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