Country and Americana

A newly updated box set covers Glen Campbell's entire career. Plus, noteworthy new releases from the HawtThorns, Rod Picott, and Mrs. Henry.

Easy-flowing vocals and lyrics with literate depth fuel two recent recordings from distant regions of the music spectrum.

We debut the newest single from the upcoming album by quintessential family band The Iveys.

Brightly inventive in the service of a dim mood, the songs on Beat Circus' 'These Wicked Things' smell of existential desperation. It's one of the cooler albums to cross my transom this year.

The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.

'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.

Marty Haggard brings us joy and memories with his concert, “A Tribute to My Dad, Merle Haggard.”

Rock music will always come first in my world, but you'll see an eclectic list of everything from jazz-hop (Anderson .Paak) to metal, country, electronica, R&B, and folk rock.

Inspired by California's giant sequoias, the new solo album from Jason and the Scorchers' Jason Ringenberg has its thumb on the pulses of our hurting planet and our aching human race.

Rock and roll is alive and well - and didn't need a Zeppelin clone to prove it in 2018.