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There are going to be a lot of words written about Blackberry Smoke's new album Find a Light . I'm going to save some bandwidth. I...

From the first line of the first song, "I was born September 1st, in a little town outside Fort Worth" to the album closer "W...

Everybody reading this has access to the Google machine. If you want history and context, look it up. The new album from Biters is great...

Mud is the perfect title for Whiskey Myers' fourth album release. Mud is dirty, it's gritty, it's grimy, it's greasy and i...

Blackfoot has a new album called Southern Native . Rickey Medlocke. That sentence and that name probably mean nothing to 99% of Americans....

Southern psychedelic grunge rock. It took me a while to find the right descriptors for The Temperance Movement's new album White Bear . ...

I went with my sister and daughter to see Whiskey Myers in New Braunfels, TX at the River Road Ice House with Band of Heathens opening. Wh...

This record has been out for a couple of weeks. I have been remiss in not spotlighting it up until now. Holy Smokes, Jonathan Tyler...

If you like any combination of country, Southern Rock, blues,Texas country, gospel, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Allmans, Alabama, Jerry Reed, th...

Koritni's latest record Night Goes On For Days could have come straight out of the 80's. And that's a good thing. This Australi...

I was a little leery of A Thousand Horses after hearing the two lead singles from their Southernality record. Whoever is choosing the singl...

The new Chris Stapleton album has arrived. And it was worth the wait. Traveller has elements of more traditional country along with South...

I held off on this one until after a few spins. It grew on me. Then I listened to it on the car stereo while driving by myself. I was convin...

Is the new Kid Rock record First Kiss great? Groundbreaking? Nope and nope. But you know what it is? Full of catchy tunes and a lot of fun....

February is almost over and I had to get out of my singer/songwriter melancholy funk. Not that I don't enjoy that, it just seemed to be ...

You know when you are looking forward to a new record release and then it comes out and you're so disappointed? Yeah, I do too. But with...

OK. So we are all annoyed by the guys yelling out "Play some Skynyrd" or "Freebird". And, yeah, that still goes on. The ...

Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina's Preacher Stone does not want to be identified as a Southern Rock band, but a "rock band ...

Listening to Saracene Sessions: Tape 1 by the Tyler McCumber Band, I hear southern rock and country. I hear Merle Haggard and Bob Seger. ...

I grew up in the 80's. I was (and still am) a fan of 80's hard rock. Or glam metal, hair metal, pop metal. Whatever term you want to...