If you’d told me a few years back that Miranda Lambert would be releasing a disco album, I’d have laughed in your face. The crazy ex-girlfriend who likes to burn stuff down? The woman who was more …

Even if you’re always listening to new music, or even if you’re a music blogger like myself, sometimes there’s an artist whose name you hear often but whose music for whatever reason you never get …

Two Runner have been quietly building a stellar reputation in the Americana scene over the last few years: recording sessions with Western AF and Gems on VHS, and going on tour with Alela Diane and…

I know summer is still alive but if you’re like me then you’ve already switched seasons in your mind.

Laura Veirs’s new album is the first she’s entirely recorded and produced herself and the first in four years since Found Light. Her garden studio is called ‘Temple of Bloom’ and this was where ‘Te…

Over the past few months many in the music industry have been struck down with what is being called ‘blue dot fever’. The name for this disease comes from the way Ticketmaster show unsold seats on …

On her recent appearance on the lovely ‘Playing Along with Norah Jones’ podcast Allison Russell described her favourite part of making music as ‘the collaboration’, calling her fellow musicians on …

This past weekend The Highwomen reunited at The Gorge for the first time since they last played that same venue in 2023. Honestly I’ve spent the last hour or so just watching the videos of the perf…

Finding albums to review for Highway Queens is never a problem, as the endless tide of releases never stops.

In a world of online influencers selling false versions of themselves for profit, it’s seems absurd that musicians are now expected to produce content and compete for attention on the same platform…

The cover image of Michaela Anne’s new album ‘These Are the Days’ is a powerful statement about how being an artist and a mother is not only possible, it is natural and normal. It’s wild this kind …

Since breaking out with her Girl Going Nowhere album Ashley McBryde has cultivated a distinct sound for herself, noticeably different than other women in mainstream country music. Despite still bei…

May 1st brings the Flower Moon (so called because spring is now in full bloom) and it’s a perfect day for the return of our cherry blossom baby Kacey Musgraves with her new album ‘Middle of Nowhere…

Inspired by Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty, Mikaela Davis has described her new album ‘Graceland Way’ as ‘Canyon Country’ with its widescreen, shimmering Californian sound. Another key i…

Ashley Monroe surprised everyone last week by dropping this new album ‘Dear Nashville’, less than a year after her last record Tennessee Lightning. With the title and the cowboy hat on the album co…

Alongside her indie band Whispertown, Morgan Nagler has also written songs with artists like Gillian Welch, Phoebe Bridgers, Haim and Kim Deal. She’s been best friends with Jenny Lewis for years an…

Brit Taylor was inspired by listening to the great women of country music for this new album, specifically Patty Loveless and Lee Ann Womack. What she also noticed was how both artists had enlisted…

The last Mitski album I reviewed was 2018’s ‘Be the Cowboy’ which was a dark and intriguing look into the psyche of an emerging young artist. I saw her at a festival in 2019, playing low down on th…

Fresh from the recent release of her album Valentine, Courtney Marie Andrews made a welcome return to Scotland to spread the spirit of love on a cold February evening.

Julia Steiner, lead singer of Chicago based band Ratboys, envisioned this new album as a way to communicate with someone she had become estranged from. Imagining them as an ‘empty chair’ she began …

At the start of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the main character has to dig herself out of her own grave after being violently brought back from the dead. Afterwards she walks through riot-…

On her YouTube channel Meels has included a playlist which details the ‘visual world’ of her new EP Across the Raccoon Strait. Included in this list are videos from TV shows Hee Haw, Gu…

It’s Grammy day today so I thought I’d address the ever looming elephant in the room: we have an Americana problem.