Americana Music News — The second single from Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson’s Wreck and Ruin on Sugar Hill Records: Follow Americana Music News on Twitter at @sun209com.
New to Americana music chart: Rosie Flores, Bonnie Bishop
Americana Music News – There’s no change at the top of the Americana Music airplay chart this week, with John Hiatt’s Mystic Pinball still at the number one position, with the second slot filled by Dwight Yoakam’s Three Pears. New to the chart this week: Rosie Flores’ Working Girl’s Guitar and Bonnie Bishop’s Free. Most adds this week: Jamey Johnson’s…
Diana Lawrence’s “To: Aging Children”
Americana Music News — We’re still making our through CDs that were handed to us during the Americana Music Association conference and are enjoying Diana Lawrence’s To: Aging Children. Lawrence has a compelling voice and her themes about growing up are universal. Kudos, too, for the inventive packaging: An envelope with a letter inside, which doubles as liner notes. Definitely…
Review: LiveWire’s “Livin'”
By Joe Ross– From the opening riff of “Don’t Nothin’ Take My Breath” to closer “Gone” ten tracks later, LiveWire has created an exciting breakout debut album with a tight contemporary country performance highlighted by radio-friendly production, tasteful instrumental licks and yearning vocals. Getting their start about ten years ago at fraternal lodges and clubs in southwestern Missouri and northeastern…