Orville Peck: Stampede review – starry duets about gay cowboy love
Mining the American songbook and myriad styles, Peck proves a generous duettist, with Willie Nelson and Allison Russell his standout partners
July 2024
Waxahatchee review – warm, rousing anthems about embracing change
Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desir review – heartache all the way
‘I was drunk’: Ingrid Andress responds to criticism of national anthem performance
‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far
June 2024
Shania Twain at Glastonbury review – country-pop legend doesn’t hold her horses
Kinky Friedman obituary
Johnny Cash: Songwriter – posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise
Kinky Friedman, country singer known as ‘Jewish cowboy’, dies aged 79
Kings of Leon review – mesmeric power from masters of the restrained anthem
‘He’d turned into a weird old grandpa’: how Johnny Cash resurrected his career – and became an icon
Unsung Hero review – real-life journey of Christian music migrants from Australia
May 2024
Darius Rucker on country music, race and drugs: ‘I don’t think anyone went harder than us’
Wild Rose: film about Glaswegian country singer to be turned into stage musical
Ten-gallon hits! Why country is the biggest pop music craze of 2024
Gareth Parry obituary
Frank Ifield obituary
Three things
Three things with Troy Cassar-Daley: ‘Johnny Cash wanted to strum my guitar before he signed it’
Kacey Musgraves review – sweet and salty country-pop magic
April 2024
Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed
Rescued from Cash’s low ebb in the early 1990s, this fun, lightweight song is a long way from the moody recordings with Rick Rubin he soon turned towards
