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Beats & Treats: Jon Pardi’s California Sunrise as a Boot-Stompin’ Cookie Recipe

Nimai Larson’s (Prince Rama) Classy Cowboy Cookies are worth spending your whole paycheck on.

June 17, 2016

Terry Allen’s Juarez is an Ode to the Road that this Musician Finds Unnervingly Accurate

Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux) finds the parallels between touring and Allen’s classic concept album.

May 23, 2016

M.C. Taylor Remembers His Songwriting Hero, Guy Clark

The Hiss Golden Messenger frontman never met Clark, but he knows exactly what he would have told the legend.

May 19, 2016

Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) Talks a Playlist of Songs from Her Ten Favorite Albums of 2015

This playlist includes both driving tunes and music for two-year-olds to dance to.

January 15, 2016

Nimai Larson (Prince Rama) Talks Tim McGraw’s Damn Country Music

Listening to McGraw’s new album is a Chevy pickup ride down the road to falling in love again.

November 6, 2015

Nimai Larson (Prince Rama) Talks Toby Keith’s 35 MPH Town

Our writer reflects on location and sobriety while listening to a country superstar's unfiltered, evocative and hilarious record.

October 9, 2015

Mitch Albom Talks Don Henley’s Cass County

Many Eagles hits had a country twang. Henley's new album builds from those roots, creating equally pleasing if more pared-down songs.

October 6, 2015

Larkin Grimm Talks Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s Django and Jimmie

In an inspired work of country-jazz fusion, two icons reveal the secret of staying in it for the long run: don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks.

May 29, 2015

Matthew Friedberger (the Fiery Furnaces) Talks John Mayer’s Paradise Valley

I won't argue it, I'll just assume: John Mayer is a mainstream guy, as I might have even seen him quoted as saying. The effectiveness of his...

April 20, 2015

Peter Holsapple (the dB’s, Holsapple & Stamey, Continental Drifters) Talks the Mavericks’ Mono

Veteran country-rockers the Mavericks didn’t reinvent the wheel on their new album. But they did something almost as good.

February 24, 2015

Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke) Talks Justin Townes Earle’s Single Mothers

As long as we have songwriters like Justin Townes Earle, there’s no reason to worry about the fate of country music.

September 18, 2014

Prince Paul Talks Cowboy Troy’s King of Clubs

Back in the mid 2000’s, a friend of mine told me a black guy who raps has the #2 album on the Billboard country chart. I was like, “Oh sh*t!...

April 23, 2014