For those of us heavily involved in the writing, reviewing and analysing of Country music, it seems like the barometer may well be swinging back towards a more traditional sound, or at least, there seems to be some shifting of the emphasis in song writing and production away from the […]

Recently being named the youngest and newest member of the Grand Ole Opry, Kelsea Ballerini has broken many records, including being the first female country artist since Wynnona Judd to send her first three singles to number 1, and she’s certainly not slowing down soon. Her penultimate single ‘Miss Me […]

So, Zac Brown Band are back again with their new project ‘The Owl’. A new ZBB project always brings great excitement here at YLIAS HQ, where we’ve never shied away from the fact that they were our introduction to country and remain our top band to this day. Every album […]

For her eighth studio album Eilen Jewell has chosen the perfect title. Like the itinerant traveller Gypsy takes the listener along the many highways and byways that stretch across the map called Americana. There are pedal to the floor blasts down the main six lane routes of country and blues […]

At long last! The new album ‘Wild Blue (Part I)’ from Hunter Hayes is out today, five years after his last full-length project. Hunter surprised fans with an announcement on the Today show earlier this week; an interesting strategy in terms of album promotion. We’re so used to the two […]

Isn’t it a wonderful thing when expectation and reality collide in a song. When Kip Moore began teasing earlier in the week that some new music was on the way, a whole subset of the internet began to get those tingles and feels!! After all, new music from one of […]

Arkansas native, Justin Moore’s fifth studio album, produced and co-written by Jeremy Stover, and Moore and Stover’s select team of collaborators and cohorts sees Moore swinging back around to a more traditional sound after the experimentation of his previous album, ‘Kinda Don’t Care’. The paradox for Moore is that whilst […]

Lucky, Revisited is the fourth studio album from Karen Jonas but it contains nothing new. It’s neither a live album nor a ‘best of’. Instead, she has re-recorded nine of her own compositions and two covers to demonstrate how her relationship with her songs has developed. Some of the new […]

‘Beyond The Ranch’ is a really intriguing project from new Australian group Saltbush Six, fronted by UK fan favourite and British CMA Male Vocalist Of The Year, Darcy Crawford. The band is made up of The Ayers Rockettes, the musicians who helped launch Keith Urban’s career back in his days with ‘The Ranch’. […]