Country

Old Sledge is a group of young musicians from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Blowing the dust off old tunes and songs from the golden era of early country, hillbilly and blues music, Old Sledge represents the best and brightest of the new...

OLD CROW MEDICINE / PAINT THIS TOWN - On Paint This Town, Old Crow Medicine Show offers a riveting glimpse into American mythology and the wildly colorful characters who populate it. Co-produced by OCMS and Matt Ross-Spang, the album pays homage to...

Olav Larsen and the Alabama Rodeo Stars invite US to a sing-a-long party on their new album. And considering Olav Larsen's knack at finding irresistible melodies and ability to write simple, almost naive, yet meaningful lyrics, we're in for one hell of a...

'Ol' Eon' is a Classic Ian Tyson release, now being re-issued in 2023! In 1973, when this Classic title was first released, Ian Tyson was still watching the West as he was seeing it change - and not always for the better. Still writing about love,...

Okie From Muskogee was a #1 hit in 1969. It also received the CMA single of the year.

Often called a new traditionalist, singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris has built a career on revamping classic honky-tonk music while striving to keep the idiom fresh and modern. Harris's music has roots. She knows the repertoire and is steeped in the...

Officially sanctioned by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this landmark anthology features six decades of the very best of the very best as chosen by Country Music radio, retail and music history professionals. These are the recordings which...

Of Montgomery's 3 Atlantic Nashville releases, one is double platinum and two are quadruple platinum; he's topped both the country charts and the pop charts and has won a Grammy, 3 Academy of Country Music Awards and an American Music Award, among others...

Of banjo innovator Roger Sprung, Alan Lomax wrote, "Bluegrass emerged fifty years after New Orleans' hot music as mountaineers' answer to jazz. It seems to me that Sprung has taken a logical and exciting step... by tastefully adding jazz instruments to...

Of all Hollywood's 'singing cowboys', Tex Ritter, with his tack-plain but sincere bass, sounded most like the genuine article. This 28-track overview of his Capitol recordings spans 1942 to 1957 and a variety of production approaches from the folk...

OBSESSED WITH THE WESTOBSESSED WITH THE WEST - BRENNEN LEIGH - 'I've been obsessed with western swing since I was a kid, and it's always been an influence, but my records in the past have ranged from bluegrass to hard country to folk, So I've never fully...

Now the story of American Country Rock concludes! The mix is as before: big hits and neglected classics that tell the story of a musical genre. Double CDs with generously full booklets with complete song-by-song notes, rare photos, and first-person...