We have never been what one could call on the cutting edge of country music, but this clip was too cute to pass up. Say what you want about country music, but there is one thing that they have st...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2011/03/01/seen-your-video-sarah-darling/
Having children has had a profound impact on my musical tastes. Will it make them cry? Will it teach them naughty words? Will it bore them? Then it doesn't get played around the house, which has ...
The days of getting lost in an album have passed me by. This year, I really tried to rekindle that lost listening art of playing entire albums – instead of compiling playlists in iTunes. It has...
Each year, when I sort through my favorite songs, I have trouble ranking them because each one has a different meaning to me. I always wind up creating a mixtape (or a playlist, for you younger r...
RIYL: Ryan Adams, Matthew Ryan, Gabe Dixon Band There are times when you just have to marvel at all of the great music that continues to funnel down from Canada – well, minus Celine Dion. In Le...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/12/03/leeroy-stagger-everything-is-real/
RIYL: Radney Foster, Brad Paisley, Hootie & The Blowfish Hootie & The Blowfish might have sold millions of copies of 1994’s Cracked Rear View album, but by the early part of the ’00s, they co...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/12/02/darius-rucker-charleston-sc-1966/
RIYL: The Thrills, The Pogues, The Lilac Time If you had asked us what we expected the next move to be from Keane after they released their fourth album Night Train in May of this year, our gut r...
RIYL: Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts You can’t review a country album anymore without discussing where it fits in the “real country” versus “country pop” spectrum; the ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/21/sugarland-the-incredible-machine/
RIYL: The Mavericks, Roy Orbison, Texas Tornadoes Raul Malo is an awesomely gifted vocalist and musician, but his solo career has been long on quantity (seven albums in less than a decade) and sh...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/06/raul-malo-sinners-saints/
RIYL: Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Rascal Flatts Don’t blame brother trio Sons of Sylvia if they are a bit pigeon-holed into the country music genre, because that’s not what they are. Sure, the band ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/10/01/sons-of-sylvia-revelation/
RIYL: The Black Crowes, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Bob Dylan Many know Bingham only from “The Weary Kind,” his deep country Oscar-winning song from “Crazy Heart” that he wrote with produ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/09/29/ryan-bingham-junky-star/
RIYL: The Jayhawks, Gram Parsons, Neil Young Fans of the Jayhawks, Gram Parsons and Neil Young should be thrilled with Mark Olson’s new solo recording, Many Colored Kite. In fact, it’s Young�...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/08/11/marc-olson-many-colored-kite/
RIYL: The Vaughan Brothers, Southern Culture on the Skids, Hacienda Brothers, Los Lobos Guitarist Dave Gonzalez (Hacienda Brothers) and singer Mike Barfield, the core of Austin’s Stone River Bo...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/07/19/stone-river-boys-love-on-the-dial/
RIYL: Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Sheryl Crow, The Eagles A cynic might say that this best-of collection by the Dixie Chicks was thrown together so that the group (which consists of sisters Martie M...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/06/28/the-dixie-chicks-playlist-the-very-best-of-the-dixie-chicks/
RIYL: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Marc Broussard Bo Bice will forever be the guy who finished second to Carrie Underwood on Season 4 of “American Idol.” Many were outraged, thinking Bice...
RIYL: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dave Alvin Country-rock legend Merle Haggard has stepped up at age 73 to deliver a late-career classic that should satisfy any die-hard fan. The album showcases ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/24/merle-haggard-i-am-what-i-am/
RIYL: Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, pickin’, grinnin’ That squealing sound you hear is the Jayhawks’ steadfastly loyal fan base wetting themselves over the long-overdue release of ...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/12/the-jayhawks-the-jayhawks/
RIYL: The Dixie Chicks, The Jayhawks, Sugarland It’s strange to think that Taking the Long Way, the monster crossover smash by Texas spitfires the Dixie Chicks, is only four years old. The batt...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/05/05/court-yard-hounds-court-yard-hounds/
RIYL: Roseanne Cash, Tift Merritt, Neko Case It took ten years for Shelby Lynne to declare I Am Shelby Lynne, following her little-noticed first life as a glossed over country-pop singer from the...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/04/16/shelby-lynne-tears-lies-and-alibis/
Big, big, big selection of free downloads this week. Let’s get to it, before any more songs show up. Teenage Fanclub – Baby Lee If your first impulse when you saw the words ‘Teenage Fanclub...
https://www.esdmusic.com/2010/04/14/me-myself-and-ipod-41410/