Cowboy From Hell: How Vinnie Paul Helped Craft the Country Music Underground
When you're looking for the names of people who were imperative to the rise and eventual success of independent country music that we enjoy today, the drummer for the metal band Pantera may not be your...
View Article.357 String Band’s Derek Dunn Still Thankful & Giving After Losing Home in...
Though they never hit the big time or won any major awards, those who are familiar with the legacy of the .357 String Band know they were one of the most important bands in underground roots music...
View ArticleInitial Lineup for 2012 Muddy Roots Festival Europe
2012 will go down as the year that the roots music revolution went transcontinental, as the Muddy Roots Festival heads over to the Old World to storm the beaches of Europe with a ridiculous lineup of...
View ArticleThe Parody Created When Some Punk Bands Go Country
Whether it is punk bands that simply interchange their electric instruments for acoustic ones, or bands that have a more traditional country sound, but overload it with "whiskey, devil, and drug"...
View ArticleBob Wayne’s “Till The Wheels Fall Off”& Duet w/ Hank3
Country music madman, the Outlaw Carnie Bob Wayne has just announced he has a new album coming out May 22nd, 2012 (April 9th in Europa) from Century Media called Till The Wheels Fall Off, and that the...
View ArticleThe Origins & Epicenters of Underground “Muddy” Roots
From the outside looking in, one may look at the lineup of The Muddy Roots Festival for example, and wonder how all these bands could all be booked right beside each other and it work seamlessly. This...
View ArticleJoseph Huber (of .357) to Release “Tongues of Fire” Album
Joseph Huber, the former banjo player and songwriter for the explosive (and now defunct) .357 String Band has a new album on the way called Tongues of Fire, and you can listen to the song "Iron Rail"...
View Article2012 Muddy Roots Festival Official Performance Schedule
Saving Country Music is pleased to bring you the official Muddy Roots Festival 2012 Performance Schedule! It includes a whopping 10 new additions for the previously-released lineup, including Grand Ole...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Joseph Huber “Tongues of Fire”
It is difficult to describe Tongues of Fire without comparing it to Joseph's first solo album Bury Me Where I Fall which in contrast was very dark from deep and intelligent songwriting and eery chord...
View ArticleLike Him or Not, Bob Wayne Has Arrived
I bet when you saw Bob Wayne's name in the title of this article, you had some sort of immediate emotional reaction, didn't you? You either thought, “That foul mouthed punk, I can't even stand to see...
View ArticleSarah Gayle Meech &“One Good Thing” Revitalize Honky Tonk
Lower Broadway in Nashville has a new songstress haunting the streets, and she's a good one. If you want to know how to put out one badass independent/underground country album in Nashville, you could...
View ArticleMumford & Sons Take Roots Music Mainstream w/ “Babel”
By all accounts, I should hate these dudes, and this album by proxy. t was announced that Babel was the best-selling debut so far in 2012, selling 600,000 copies and outpacing folks like Justin Bieber....
View Article.357 String Band Reissues Landmark Album “Fire & Hail”
the loss of .357 String Band may go down as underground country's greatest tragedy. I can think of no other project that was so ripe for becoming a success story of authentic American underground...
View ArticleApolitical Country Songs To Help Survive The Political Season
About this time every four years the political rhetoric reaches critical mass as TV, radio, and the internet are permeated with political ads, while your personal social network feed is filled with...
View ArticleWhy Underground Country Music Is Dying (A Treatise)
I have been struggling to write this article for almost two years, but have been putting it off because there's some hard things to say, and I didn't want to "talk down" a movement that was already...
View ArticleThe Greatest Underground Country Albums of All Time
By request, here is my list of the greatest underground country albums of all time. The underground country movement started roughly in the mid 90's on lower Broadway in Nashville that at the time was...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Best Live Performances of 2012
Where 2011 felt like a high water mark year for live performances and an average year for recorded projects, 2012 feels vice versa. When I look back on 2011, it seemed like there were moments I...
View ArticleDeath of Mutual Friend Reunites Musical Talent
The Farmageddon Records family suffered a grave loss last week when Richard Laferte II unexpectedly passed away Saturday, January 5th while visiting family and friends in Maine. Following a formal time...
View ArticleThe Music That Paved The Way For Mumford & Sons
Many of the bold changes in the direction of popular music begin with artists that are too fey, too polarizing to become popular themselves. So it takes others who understand how to soften music with...
View ArticleThe Dinosaur Truckers Set Bluegrass On Fire
Holy mother. While the Mumfordization of roots music has left so many string bands looking for the right watered-down derivative to forge mass appeal, The Dinosaur Truckers offer up the pure, uncut,...
View ArticleHellbound Glory Still Hungry After Kid Rock Tour
Reno, Nevada's Hellbound Glory has just come off two legs of arena shows opening for Kid Rock on his nationwide Rebel Soul tour, and are recovering now to get ready for their own tour in early summer....
View ArticleTwo Dollar Pistols’ Legacy Revived in John Howie Jr.’s ‘Leaving Yesterday’
"Leavin' Yesterday" is a brilliantly-written, steadfastly country old school tearjerker that doesn't relent on the heartaches once in the album's 13 stellar tracks. Just a glance at song titles like...
View ArticleJayke Orvis & The Broken Band’s “Bless This Mess”
If you're looking for an act that is still virtually unknown, one that is buried deep in the underground and that embodies the raw energy of the roots movement and not just a commercially-viable...
View ArticleAlbum Review – The Dinosaur Truckers
Can four dudes from Germany make American roots music and still be authentic? Do they have the ear, the personal history, the DNA, the dirt under their fingernails to do what American-based string...
View Article16 Essential One Man Bands of the Roots World
Good music is entertaining. Great music changes lives. And on the front lines of life altering music experiences are the one man bands. Courageous, pioneering, persevering through obscurity and...
View Article12 Songs That Helped Create The Country Music Underground
The underground country movement initially formed around the mid 90's not because somebody launched a website or a record label. It wasn't because of a festival or because someone came up with a...
View ArticleList of Dark Country & Roots Artists for Halloween
One of the great things about roots music is its Gothic legacy of cautionary tales, ghost stories, murder ballads, messages to the infirmed, and other such methods of macabre that allow country and...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Best Live Performances of 2013
The greatest album, and the greatest recorded song will never be able to trump the truly live musical experience where music is shared in real time with both the artist and listeners. It is in this...
View ArticleAlbum Stream – Joseph Huber’s “The Hanging Road”
Joseph Huber is one of those country roots gems with potent tunes that impact the open heart with such resonance and penetration, it remains with the listener much after the music stops. The Hanging...
View ArticleThe Whiskey Shivers Shine in New Self-Titled LP
Trust me when I say if you go ambling through American college towns, you won't find anything resembling a dearth of string bands with a bunch of young men and their banjos and fiddles stomping and...
View ArticleDarci Carlson Impresses with Debut “Release Me” EP
Written solely by Carlson, the 5-song Release Me EP is a throwback, honky-tonkin, foot-stompin' true country affair that lays full throttle on the twang and layers in the steel guitar hard and heavy....
View ArticleHaving a Baby; That’s Where Rachel Brooke Has Been
2015 was supposed to be a year for new arrivals and big surprises from the ravenesque throwback bluesy country maven Rachel Brooke, and lo and behold, it was. The new arrivals and big surprises just...
View ArticleJayke Orvis to Join The Goddamn Gallows Full Time on Upcoming Tour
word has come down that Jayke Orvis has decided to suit up once again with the Goddamn Gallows on their upcoming nationwide tour. Stepping aside for the moment is banjo player Joe Perreze. "I will be...
View ArticleJoseph Huber Releases New Song, Readies New Album “The Suffering Stage”
Joseph Huber now readies his fourth release overall 'The Suffering Stage' being self-released on April 21st, and has shared a new song "You Showed Me" that already has folks buzzing. Featuring steel...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Joseph Huber’s “The Suffering Stage”
Old, forgotten memories get stirred to the forefront. Theories on life are recalled and reflected upon. And you don't end up more happy like music is supposed to do, you end up a little sad and...
View ArticleThis New Mike and the Moonpies Album Should Be Big
The chemistry of this band is just so perfect, not just unto itself, but for this very time and place. They're classic, but cool. That's the reason they aren't about to compromise anything they do just...
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On Oliver Anthony & His Viral “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Enter Oliver Anthony, and the super-viral recording of his song "Rich Men North of Richmond." Undoubtedly, it is quite a remarkable song and performance. He's a songwriter from Farmville, VA... The...
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Revered Mandolin Player & Multi-Instrumentalist Billy Cook Has Died
Revered mandolin player, guitarist, banjoist, dobro, and steel guitar player Billy Cook has died. Known for working with band such as Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies and the .357 String Band... The...
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