Keb’ Mo’ deals with the enduring power of a memory in the sizzling new song “I Remember You.” The track is the latest release from the modern bluesman’s upcoming album Oklahoma, due out June 14th. Over a muscular groove, Keb’ Mo’ tells a story of one guy and his unforgettable …
Read More »Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now: Randy Rogers Band, Rhiannon Giddens
Randy Rogers Band chronicle a vacation breakup in “We Never Made It to Mexico,” Rhiannon Giddens reaches across generations and cultures in the gripping “Ten Thousand Voices” and Pink gets an assist from Chris Stapleton in “Love Me Anyway” in this week’s batch of must-hear songs. Davisson Brothers Band, “Unbreak …
Read More »Hear John Prine's Version of 'My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight'
As a young man growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, future songwriting icon John Prine and his family would spend summers in Paradise, Kentucky, the Muhlenberg County birthplace of his father, Bill Prine. The younger Prine would later immortalize the coal-mining town in his song “Paradise” …
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