Mixing heartland boogie rock and symphonic complexity reads on paper like a ludicrous idea — and it often sounds that way, too. But that’s part of the charm with Topeka’s own Kansas, one of the few American prog bands to register even a blip on the Billboard charts. Led in their ...
For fans of the beloved heartland rockers and their very missed leader, it's a compelling question. "It's not active rock. It's not mainstream rock. It's not country. It would really fall in that Americana vein," says Scott Borchetta, the founder of Big Machine Label Group. "W...
Plop 27-year-old Oklahoma singer-songwriter Zach Bryan down in any era of American roots music and he would probably take off.Zach Bryan, his fourth album, dabbles in the bombast of ’80s heartland rock, the downcast desolation of ’90s alt-country, the scrappy, ornate folk tunes aughts i...
with a mix of hits that would define the branches of his artistry. “Don’t You Wanna Stay” withKelly Clarkson, theBrantley GilbertandColt Fordco-written “Dirt Road Anthem” and heartland tribute “Fly Over States” joined “My Kinda Party” and “Tattoos on This Town” as ...
“Hip to My Heart” was the idiosyncratic lead single, but it was the poetic “If I Die Young” that would become the trio’s calling card for years to come. “You Lie” was a snarling pop-country indictment of a lover who’d done wrong, something the trio would become known ...
Editor’s Note: The Grammy-nominated, multi-platinumMy Kinda Partyalbum is definitiveJason Aldean, with a mix of hits that would define the branches of his artistry. “Don’t You Wanna Stay” withKelly Clarkson, theBrantley GilbertandColt Fordco-written “Dirt Road Anthem” and heartland tribu...