USA Today Music — Dr. John's Desitively Bonnaro is our pick of the week. Also highlighted: Explosions in the Sky, Alison Krauss, Hayes Carll and more. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Chris La Putt Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit @ Bowery Ballroom Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Hayes Carll, and Shovels and Rope played a show together at Bowery Ballroom on Friday night (4/22). The show was... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Ashlee Blankenship & Blades of Blue – Ashlee Blankenship & Blades of Blue Amazon | Artist Website Back City Woods – Dirt From Which We Came Amazon | iTunes The Dixon Brothers with The Callahan Brothers (Box Set) Amazon | MP3 edition not available... more info

The 9513 Country Music — For the first twenty minutes of his show at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge, Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll didn’t care much for small talk. Songs like “Hard Out Here” and “Trouble in Mind” passed by with barely a word uttered between them.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets vanished quickly from Emmylou Harris's upcoming intimate gig at Bowery Ballroom on April 26, her Hard Bargain release party. But now comes word that she'll swing back into the NYC area to play a bigger show this summer,... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Hayes Carll is a Texan by birth as well as by occupation. The Houston native plays hardscrabble country songs shot through with wry humor and quiet sadness, evoking such Lone Star forebears as Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Vince Bell. He p... more info

The 9513 Country Music — For the first time in his career, Blake Shelton hit No. 1 three consecutive times. The latest single to top the charts, and Shelton’s eighth overall, is “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking.” Studies show that Nashville is a major force in popul... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Davin Alvin will make a guest appearance in, and wrote a new song for, the second season of the FX channel’s crime-drama series Justified. My pal Kelly Dearmore digs the new Hayes Carll record, KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories), even if it doesn... more info

Twangville — Producing some stellar, if not downright seminal, works can be a real pain for an artist. Ask Lucinda Williams what’s it been like to answer questions about why each of her albums can’t be Car Wheels on a Gravel Road? Ryan Adams has tried for yea... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Miranda Lambert joined the company of Pat Green and Willie Nelson as the only artists to ever sellout back-to-back nights at Billy Bob’s Texas — another sign in a long list that illustrates her arrival. The scary part, says DFW’s Preston Jones,... more info