The County Star

Irish Indie Soul maestro Kean Kavanagh is coming in hot for 2025 with undoubtedly one of the albums of the year, this coming of age record brings out all the best flavours of Keans influences from his early upbringing in Rural Ireland, and his Americana influence having been born in Houston, Texas and grown up […]

I’Ll Be Waving As You Drive Away

Texas-born and Oklahoma City-based fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo presents his remarkableand genre-defying new album ‘I’ll Be Waving AsYou Drive Away’ via Mexican Summer, pressedonto Silverado Brown coloured vinyl. Since the release of his 2023 record, ‘TheHappiest Times I Ever Ignored’, Pedigo earned widespread critical acclaim, performed a stunningNPR Tiny Desk Concert, toured non-stop with thelikes […]

Oh What A Beautiful World

Willie Nelson’s 77th solo studio album and 154th album overall focuses on the songs of Rodney Crowell, the latest in Nelson’s storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter’s work. Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell are two Texas singer-songwriters whose careers have intersected often since Crowell first heard Nelson’s earliest songs on the […]

Consequence Of Love

2024 was quite the year for Scottish singer, songwriter Rianne Downey, currently on tour with Paul Heaton. Having joined Heaton’s band a couple of years ago, when long-time duet partner Jacqui Abbot pulled out, she’s been a mainstay ever since.One of the undoubted highlights for Rianne last year was their sensational Glastonbury Pyramid Stage set. […]

T-bone Blues

L egendary blues guitarist T-Bone Walker was not only one of the most influential musicians to rise up from the fertile Texas blues scene, but his impact on blues guitar worldwide cannot be understated. T-Bone Walker is the source of single-note, horn-type blues soloing. In addition, his phrasing was so expressive of the blues sensibility […]

Magic Touch: The Complete Mustang Singles Collection

FIRST-TIME EVER COMPLETE SINGLES COLLECTION! INCLUDES FIVE BONUS TRACKS. ALL STILL-EXISTING MUSTANG MASTER TAPES SOURCED. ALL ORIGINAL MONO SINGLE MIXES. The music of Bobby Fuller was an anachronism: a recollection of simpler times set in the fast-paced world of tomorrow. Cast within the tenets of his twin loves, the instrumental surf sound and his idol […]

No Floor

more eaze and claire rousay’s collaborations are effortlessly joyful; their music evoking the warmth and respect they have for each other. Their bond goes back to their youthful hometown of San Antonio, Texas where they played in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively. more eaze (the moniker of violinist/multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice) and rousay have […]

Don’t Slam The Door: The Singles Collection 1944-1961

Tex Ritter was one of the first “singing cowboys”, a singer and actor who started out singing on radio in Texas in the 1920s, soon moving to New York to appear on radio and on Broadway.He made his first records in 1933, going on to have a recording career that lasted four decades, and after […]

Complete Releases: Singles & Albums 1959-1962

Born John Courville in Texas in 1939, he was of Cajun ancestry, and started singing at an early age, forming a rock ‘n’ roll band in his teens called The Shades, who were seen by local DJ J.P. Richardson, better known as The Big Bopper.Richardson offered Johnny the chance to record a teenage tragedy song […]

Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2

John has been assassinated, leaving Beth and Kayce in complete disarray. Jamie’s political future is facing serious uncertainty, on top of that, the people he once called his family have completely cut ties with him and Beth has her crosshairs fixed on him. Meanwhile, Rip has most of the Yellowstone crew working out of state […]