Legacy’s 2010 collection The Essential Highwaymen doesn’t merely cover recordings made by the supergroup of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, it rounds up selections from their solo albums of the ‘70s, ‘80s, ’90s, and 2000s. Specifically, these selections are written by other members of the group, so the net effect is a generous 36-track collection of Highwaymen highlights in all forms, drawing a more detailed portrait of their crossed paths than any individual album by the supergroup.

In the 80′s, Rolando Jr had left the music business to start a custom cabinet business in order to provide for his family. In 1999, one of his sons wanted to get into the music business and Roland Jr decided to start again to help his son. He was asked by many friends to play for their private parties as well as many promoters and club owners wanted the “Roland Garcia” style of music for their establishments, so Roland became very popular with the locals as well as Winter Texans. A year or so before Country Roland Sr passed away, Roland Sr asked Roland Jr to carry on the tradition which made Roland’s dad Country Roland Sr very happy due to he wasn’t in physical shape to do many shows and concerts any more. So Rolando Garcia Jr became “Country Roland Jr” which made Roland Sr very happy to see the tradition continue.

15 CD collection includes: Spoke (1997); The Black Light (1998); Hot Rail (2000); Even My Sure Things Fall Through (2001) EP; Feast Of Wire (2003); Convict Pool (2004) EP; Black Heart (2004) Maxi Single; In the Reins (with Iron And Wine) (2005) EP; Garden Ruin (2006); Carried To Dust (2008); Algiers (2012); Edge of the Sun (2015); The Thread That Keeps Us (2018).

UK twofer combines 'Sings American Folk Songs' & 'Hand-Clapping Songs' (both originally released in 1963), the country legends fifth & sixth albums for the Hickory label. Features 24 beautifully remastered tracks from original first-generation Hickory Records master tapes, making their CD debut. Includes 12-page booklet with extensive liner notes, photos & memorabilia. Two of Roy Acuff's 1963 albums, Sings American Folk Songs and Hand-Clapping Gospel Songs, are combined onto one disc on this CD reissue. Sings American Folk Songs was the third album that he recorded in the early '60s for his own Hickory label, and might be less essential than some of his other work from the era, simply because most of the songs are folk tunes rather than his own compositions. That doesn't automatically mean they're not of interest. But Acuff is simply a more distinctive talent when working with the country compositions of his own and others than he is as an interpreter of folk songs.

Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard pushed life to the margin and lived to sing about it. In the process, his songs now possess the tenderness of a poet, the empathy of a historian, and the raw nerve of a card shark. On 2009’s A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C), he adds "mythmaker" to his songwriting qualities. Hubbard strips his music to the bone here, and uses the Mississippi Delta blues tradition to his own ends. His music is raw yet utterly contemporary and crafted. Snarling acoustic, slide, and electric guitars played bottleneck style, dirty mandolins, pots, pans, stomp boxes, basses, organs, harmoniums, drums, rattles, shakers, and tambourines are the instruments that fuel this impressive collection.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy stays busy - in the past five years he has released albums of previously-recorded songs by Susanna Wallumrod, Mekons, Merle Haggard; even himself, and a collaborative record with Bitchin Bajas. The only thing he hasn't done is a new album of Bonny originals - in case you weren't counting, 2011's Wolfroy Goes To Town was the last one. That's from the first half of the Obama presidency!

In May 2017, days before succumbing to cancer, Jimmy LaFave staged a final show in Austin at the Paramount Theatre, an all-star farewell and thank you to the music community he adoringly called home. Even in his own passing at the age of 61, LaFave’s voice provided comfort, wisdom, and healing to a hurting world. Posthumous double-disc Peace Town arrives nearly a year later, a last gift from the incomparable song crier. Like calculated final collections from David Bowie, Warren Zevon, and Leonard Cohen, each song rings with meaning. Opening on Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door,” LaFave recasts the pop anthem with a stirring emotional appeal, followed by one of only three of his own compositions among the 20 tracks, “Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon.”

Steve Hofmeyr is al vir dekades lank hard aan die werk – nie net as ’n gewilde vermaaklikheidster nie, maar ook as ’n persoonlikheid by wie mense op ’n emosionele, kulturele en patriotiese vlak aanklank vind.

Carl Emroy Golden Years Hier ist es nun das neue Album von Carl Emroy Titel Golden Years . Ein Carl Emroy auf höchstem Niveau mit 14 Titeln, die nicht besser sein könnten. Dieses Album wird sich in die Herzen seiner Fans und alle die Country lieben, eingraben. Das Album Golden Years enthält Titel aus eigener Feder, Titel von dem Komponisten Alex D.e und Carl Emroy als Texter, in denen er all seine Gefühle zeigt. Auch kommen die Line Dancer voll auf ihre Kosten und Cover Songs, die er mit seiner Interpretation zu seinem eigenen macht. Produziert im ADair Records Studio ist dieses Album ganz sicher ein Highlight in seinem Genre-Bereich. Mit diesem Album ist die Meßlatte auf internationaler Ebene angekommen. Ein Muß und Erlösung für alle Carl Emroy Fans. Das Warten hat sich gelohnt.

Libby Koch is celebrating a decade in the Texas singer-songwriter scene with her 5th full-length solo release, Redemption 10: Live at Blue Rock. The Americana singer-songwriter is a “country meets soulful” (Free Press Houston), “feisty Texas songbird” (Country Music People) who “sings her story with a little twang, some slide guitar, and a lot of heart” (Texas Monthly).

The LACS career trajectory accelerates with every new album and every new beat. Staying steadfastly true to who they are, the new studio album Rise and Shine is a 12-pack of country infused anthems with a fresh take on what they know best. Amongst Pandora Radio's Top 25 Streaming Country artists. The LACS path to the top of the Billboard Country charts has been the result of consistently feeding their base by connecting with fans both at their exciting live shows and through their recorded music. With three #3 Billboard Country albums already under their belt, The LACS newest studio album Rise And Shine is destined to follow suit.

Country trio Lady Antebellum has shared details of their new album Ocean and debuted a video for the title track. The 13-song album, out Nov. 15, was produced by Dann Huff. “There’s this theme of returning to the core of who we are – as writers, vocalists and people – that came out in each of these songs,” Dave Haywood explained, in a release. “Our time in the studio with Dann had an excitement that felt like we were making our first album all over again.”

During his lifetime, Mickey Newbury was always regarded more as a songwriter than as a singer or recording artist. Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Charlie Rich, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, and Joan Baez all recorded his songs. That said, Saint Cecilia Knows (the Newbury estate's label) and Drag City are seeking to change that impression with An American Trilogy. It's a deluxe, limited-edition, four-disc box set collects the albums Looks Like Rain (1969), 'Frisco Mabel Joy (1971), Heaven Help the Child (1973), and a disc of rarities; it contains a poster lyric sheet/map and a 100-page booklet, with Newbury quotes, interviews, and more.

Once upon a time, Waylon Jennings was one of the hardest partying men in country music (no small statement), but by the time he appeared on PBS's long-running music series Austin City Limits in 1984, Jennings asked that his taping take place at 11 a.m., which would have been closer to his bedtime during his years as country's number one outlaw. A newly cocaine-fee Waylon plays "I Can Get off on You" early in this set, which contains his complete set from that KLRU-TV taping, and the man sounds tough and committed throughout a fast-paced show, during which he runs through 14 songs in less than 40 minutes and displays his trademark ability to sound energetic and laid-back at the same time.

Merle Haggard had been one of country music's biggest stars and most uncompromising talents for more than a dozen years when he rolled into the KLRU-TV studios in Austin, TX for a taping of PBS's long-running music series Austin City Limits in early 1978. (It's said that Haggard had never heard of the show at the time, but was persuaded to take the gig by friend and superfan Darrell K Royal, coach of the University of Texas football team). At this point, Haggard was soon to leave Capitol Records and the most successful period of his career was ending, but you get very little sense of that on Live from Austin TX, which features his ACL performance complete and unedited.