Dacey Orr
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Country Storyteller Brandy Clark's Big Small Town Dreams Are Coming True
Her latest album, 'Big Day in a Small Town,' is a modern country triumph that celebrates flaws and mines vulnerabilities. → Read More
What's in a Name? For Anderson East, It's His Meteoric Musical Rise
Anderson East did not come out of nowhere. It's easy to see why fans might think that: since the release of Delilah last summer, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter has taken his electrifying performances from opening gigs in dive bars to headlining tours and radio spots. He's garnered nods of approval from... → Read More
Farewell, FarmBorough: What We Can Learn From Country Music Festival Failures
"We're not making the same pop-up over again." Brian O'Connell, Live Nation's President of Country Touring, told this to the Voice last year, when his latest venture, the 2015 FarmBorough Festival, was readying for its descent on Randalls Island. As Live Nation was in the midst of rolling out the... → Read More
Lianne La Havas Found Her 'Own Personal Rhythm' in the Beats of Her 'Blood'
"Open up and let me get to you, take you to another side," sings Lianne La Havas on "Midnight," a song that appears midway through last year's excellent sophomore release, Blood. "Come to my own world, we'll get lost in another time." It's easy to hear strains of that other... → Read More
The Underdog Wore Cowboy Boots: How Country Saved Itself From Stereotypes in 2015
From the pop-centric tracks of Dan + Shay to the spoken word of Sam Hunt and the down-home sensibilities of Kacey Musgraves, country's class of 2015 int... → Read More
Big Grams: Big Boi & Phantogram Are 'Scientists Trying to Discover That New Sound'
Like all great relationships, it started with a healthy dose of Internet stalking. Well, kind of. After Big Boi came across Phantogram online and posted a song from the duo as the "Song of the Day" on his website, the two camps exchanged a couple of tweets before meeting up... → Read More
Brothers Osborne Sing 'Real Songs About Real Shit'
We’ve all been there. You’re trying to sleep a couple more minutes, and your phone won’t stop ringing. You tune it out and throw your pillow over your head. Finally you give in, leaning over to take a peek at whatever couldn’t wait five more minutes. Well, the last time... → Read More
Holly Miranda: 'I Feel Like You Should Always Run Towards the Roar'
Holly Miranda was sixteen when she picked herself up and moved from Michigan to New York City. "I was so young that I really didn’t know what I was doing," she says. "I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I’d lived such a sheltered life that I didn’t know... → Read More
It Only Took Five Songs for Maren Morris to Change Country's Game
Head to church with Maren Morris and you’ll find hallelujahs and Holy Ghosts alongside outlaw icons and rings of fire. That’s the premise of her breakout single “My Church,” a windows-down anthem about finding composure and contentment behind the wheel. “I wanted to write and capture that feeling that you... → Read More
Glen Hansard: 'Sing Your Song Like Someone Else Wrote It'
“I wasn’t even in the country when my father passed away. I was on tour,” says Glen Hansard, calling the Voice before soundcheck at a venue in Cincinnati. “I’ve been on tour for most of the major things that have happened. You begin to realize a pattern — you’re just... → Read More
Vanessa Carlton Moves Beyond Her Girl-With-A-Piano Past With 'Liberman'
Before October's Liberman, the last time Vanessa Carlton released a full-length album was the summer of 2011. Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" had only just taken over the world, the Royal Wedding was all anyone could talk about, and Friday Night Lights was just breaking everyone's hearts in its last... → Read More
The Cadillac Three Have More 'White Lightning' Up Their Sleeves
"My point ain't subtle here," sings Jaren Johnston on "The South," the Cadillac Three's 2013 debut single. He spends the next four-and-a-half minutes proving that particular point. "I'm a southern man/Where the beer seems cooler and the women seem hotter/Where the world don't seem so damn modern," the song continues,... → Read More
Country Radio Can't Hold Ashley Monroe Back: 'I'm Willing to Find Other Ways to Be Heard'
It's tempting to tell new listeners about Ashley Monroe within the context of the company she keeps. She's one-third of the Pistol Annies, singing about heartache and hearsay with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley. Her duet with Blake Shelton, "Lonely Tonight," hit number one on Billboard's Hot Country Airplay last... → Read More
The Road Isn't Easy for Lindi Ortega, But the Shows Never Fail Her
Lindi Ortega's voice harkens back to country's Seventies flair, and while hard work has elevated her name to a must-know in today's Americana scene, it wasn't all steel guitars and cowboy boots that got her there. Ortega's first taste of music came from her father, who played bass in a... → Read More
Maddie & Tae 'Just Wanted to Prove Everyone Wrong' With Their Country Songs
When Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye first penned "Girl in a Country Song," it wasn't long before it began making its way around Nashville's close-knit songwriting community. Plucking cliches from country radio's tailgate-riddled top-selling hits, the song was a harmony-heavy eye roll directed toward the male-dominated airwaves, and its wit... → Read More
St. Paul & The Broken Bones 'Can't Wait To Ruin' Their Careers
When St. Paul & the Broken Bones emerged from their small-town Alabama home and started playing shows, it was almost as if a fully-realized group of old pros had stepped out of a time capsule from Muscle Shoals' heyday. A sharply-dressed band that counted trombone, sax, and trumpet among its... → Read More
Playing Madison Square Garden Is No Joke for Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard
I am on the phone with Ben Gibbard and, by some miracle, I'm not the one in this conversation talking about my awkward teens. He's detailing his old driver’s license photo, the one he took when he was 19 after Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer had played barber to Gibbard’s “blonde crazy... → Read More
A 'Few Surprises' Accompany John McCauley of Deer Tick's Solo Flight
Deer Tick is a rowdy bar band with a reputation rooted in booze-drenched shows and raucous party anthems. Led by frontman and songwriter John McCauley, the Rhode Island rock outfit first saw acclaim with their 2007 debut, War Elephant, and seemed to break with 2011’s Divine Providence. Still, to mark their successes... → Read More
Steelism Are Nashville's Biggest 'Studio Nerds' and Its Secret Weapon, Too
It's not immediately clear who you're supposed to pay attention to at a Steelism show. A side project of sidemen, the two-piece (with various touring additions) doesn't have a lead singer — it's all instrumental — and the closest thing it has to a frontman is a gangly, good-natured guy... → Read More
Kip Moore Avoids the Mold of the 'Nashville Machine' on New Album
It’s a Saturday morning in Nashville, and Kip Moore is in a cut-off tank top and ball cap that give off the impression he probably drove over in a big truck (he did) or has a thing for surfing (he does) or considers a parking lot the ideal spot for a party... → Read More