"Beware Your Only Friend" is a fine jangle of country-rock complete with violin veering into fiddle.
The collection follows last year's mostly overlooked but critically praised Wild Mountain Nation, with concise songs that stick to understated lullabies and rollicking AM country-rock, a style that made Nation's best tunes so successful.
Like Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle before him, Todd Snider often writes songs with a slightly boozy country-rock swagger, paced by a steady intellectual metronome that's a tick or two ahead of most of his peers.
We don't want it to sound like Broadway-does-country or Broadway-does-rock.
The lineup includes Lollapalooza's well-known mix of indie bands, singer-songwriters and country, hip-hop, rock and electronic acts.
Since releasing its first CD in 2001, the band has gradually abandoned its weepy pop-country sound for '80s-inspired college rock and new wave, but the incandescent passion in Lewis' voice has remained, drawing comparisons to Loretta Lynn and Neko Case.
While that may not match the hordes who flock to Glastonbury, it is still remarkable in a country where western-style rock music was all but unknown until about 20 years ago.
The Big House featuring Paul Molloy (Zutons) and Candie Payne, will be bringing the day to an evocative close with their delicious blend of country, gleaming folk and west coast rock - not to be missed.
Every genre from rock to hip-hop to country music is explored here.
The result is a collection of 13 songs that range from bluesy rock to Cajun country to an 11-minute jazz-influenced Spanish suite, with Herbie Hancock on the piano.
Some top dogs travel the country in blinged-out RVs, comparable to a rock star's ride, though as Dean writes in "Show Dog, " Uno the beagle, upon winning Westminster, got his own seat on a commercial plane.
Rock stars, and particularly smarmy female country-and-western acts, you can stop saying that as little kids you dreamed of playing venues like the one you're at tonight.
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The band Bon Jovi has been labeled many things: metal, rock, pop -- but how about country?
Most fundamental of all, David has a rock-solid faith in the enduring strength of our country.
The 20-year-old from Queensland said she had listened to music to calm her nerves before the race -- not the pumping heavy rock favoured by many athletes but country and western.
The greatest country in the world, the strongest economy in the world, the rock-solid gold standard haven for investors around the world for 100 years -- can we function?
The unusual exposure in beer country, along with tastings at rock concerts and BBQ events, and a new motto--"No wimpy wines!"
Tourism is one of the country's most important foreign exchange earners, but the pictures from Lombok of rock-throwing protesters and gangs upending cars will surely wipe out a big hunk of that revenue.
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