Country and/or Western Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

Kalie Shorr on Making the Country Record of 2021 (Except It’s Not Country)

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Amy, Butch Walker, Carly Rae Jepsen, Dua Lipa, I Got Here By Accident, Kacey Musgraves, Kalie Shorr, Love Child, Margo Price, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Taylor Swift

Country’s brightest new voice discusses her first rock record, her love of Liz Phair, and why country singers deal with so much drama

Bluegrass Blues Country and/or Western Dead Folk Psychedelics Remembrance Rock Rockabilly

Commander Cody, a True Original, Breaks the Bonds of Earth

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Commander Cody, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, George Frayne IV, San Francisco, The Grateful Dead

The San Francisco mainstay and trucker rock icon who defied categorization was 77 years old

Alternative Rock Country and/or Western Electronic Indie Rock Rock

Playing Kiss Covers Beautiful and Stoned: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at 20

September 18, 2021September 28, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2001, Glenn Kotche, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, John Stirratt, Nonesuch Records, Reprise Records, Stop Smiling, Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I’ve got reservations about so many things, but not about my appreciation for Wilco’s complicated 2001 milestone

Country and/or Western Pop

ALBUMS: Star-Crossed at the Edge of Heartbreak

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Butterfly, Cherry Blossom, Interscope Records, Kacey Musgraves, Nashville UMG, Ruston Kelly, Simple Times, Star-Crossed, The Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves keeps it universal on post-Golden Hour divorce release

Country and/or Western Folk Psychedelics Rock

If Only I Could Remember My Name Gets The Deluxe Edition It Deserves

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1971, Atlantic, David Crosby, Graham Nash, If Only I Could Remember My Name, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Rhino Records, Santana, The Grateful Dead

David Crosby’s solo debut revisited on 2-CD set featuring newly remastered audio and bonus material

Country and/or Western Remembrance Rock Roots

I’ll Never Give You One Reason To Cry: Farewell, Don Everly

August 25, 2021September 5, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments All I Have To Do Is Dream, Art Garfunkel, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown, Don Everly, Love Hurts, Paul Simon, Phil Everly, Roots, Simon and Garfunkel, The Everly Brothers

One of the Founding Fathers of Rock & Roll passes on at 84

Country and/or Western Folk North Americana Rock

Sitting Silently At Will: Gene Clark’s White Light at 50

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 1971, 50th anniversary, Gene Clark, Steve Young, The Byrds, The Dillards, The Flying Burrito Brothers, White Light

The first true solo LP from the former Byrd found him lowly lit but still flying high

Country and/or Western Folk Remembrance

Remembering Nanci Griffith: A Love Light Lost

August 16, 2021August 25, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Pete Seeger, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson

Reflections on the loss of an American country-folk poet

Country and/or Western Remembrance Rock

A Final Farewell to Poco Legend Paul Cotton

August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Illinois Speed Press, Jim Messina, Paul Cotton, Poco, Richie Furay, RIP, Rusty Young

Rock & Roll Globe recalls some of the amazing memories shared by the late guitarist, singer and songwriter

Country and/or Western Folk Indie Rock

Ben Stalets: BitCoin and Broken Hearts

August 5, 2021August 6, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ben Statlets, Bill Callahan, Bitcoin, John Prine, Smog, Toledo

Check out the second single from the Toledo’s outlaw troubadour; full-length album due August 27th

Country and/or Western North Americana Pop

Nobody’s Girl Returns With Eponymous Sophomore Set

July 18, 2021July 19, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Austin, BettySoo, Bonnie Raitt, Grace Pettis, I'm With Her, Nobody's Girl, Rebecca Loebe, Texas

Named after a classic Bonnie Raitt tune, this Austin super trio continue their ascension on beguiling second LP

Country and/or Western Psychedelics Rock

The Beat Of Michael Nesmith’s Own Drum

May 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments 2021, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings, Michael Nesmith, Orville J. “Red” Rhodes, Real Gone Music, Second Disc Records, The Monkees

A new collection digs into the solo career of the most musically diverse Monkee

Country and/or Western North Americana

The Shootouts Make Timeless Country Music For Post-Pandemic Revelry

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Bakersfield, Bob Wills, BR5-49, Bullseye, Chuck Mead, Ennio Morricone, Roy Orbison, Ryan Humbert, Shootouts

Singer/guitarist Ryan Humbert talks with Rock & Roll Globe about thd road to thd band’s great new album Bullseye

Country and/or Western Remembrance Rock

Farewell, Rusty Young

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 4 Comments Jim Messina, Poco, Richie Furay, RIP, Rusty Young

The legendary founder of Poco and an essential architect of Americana, passes away suddenly at age 75

Country and/or Western Remembrance

“It’s My Music, Too”: Farewell Charley Pride

December 14, 2020December 17, 2020 James Porter 1 Comment Bakersfield Sound, Buck Owens, Charley Pride, Coronavirus, Country Music, COVID-19, Delbert McClinton, RIP, Sonny Rollins

The Demon COVID takes another country legend, gone at 86

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