Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – one of the most beloved modern duos in bluegrass and Americana – brought music from their GRAMMY Award winning album, Woodland (2024), to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this month, performing "Empty Trainload of Sky" live on television. They also performed one of their classic tracks, "Look at…

I’ve been enamored by the West since I first set a dusty boot down in Marathon, Texas – a town that would be my spiritual hometown, if such things existed. I made my last record, Marathon, with my incredibly talented friend Davis Naish in a tiny adobe house in that little town. For the new…

Growing up in Oklahoma, Choctaw singer-songwriter Samantha Crain found solace and calm in mid-20th-century film noir, Westerns, and Broderbund Software, Inc.’s cult Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? media franchise. Along the way, she developed a soft spot for the vernacular term for a private detective, "gumshoe." "I’d always write it in my notebooks,…

You Gotta Hear This! It's another excellent roundup of track and video premieres plus new music arriving on digital "store shelves" today. There's bluegrass, folk, Americana, and more. Kicking us off, Kentucky's Bibelhauser Brothers enlist their hero and friend Sam Bush on their rendition of "One Tin Soldier," from their upcoming album, Down The Road. As…

 If it seems like Zach Top has been everywhere lately, it's because he has. Not only because he and his band are staring down a packed summer full of tour dates all across the country, but he's also coming off of his first Academy of Country Music Award win – snagging the New Male Artist…