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MAY/JUNE 2014 www.maverick-country.com MAVERICK FROM THE EDITOR... MEET THE TEAM Welcome to the May/June issue of Maverick Magazine! Editor Laura Bethell I wanted to start by saying that when we as a team produced the March/April issue of Goldings, Elphicks Farm, Water Lane, Maverick Magazine, I couldn’t have been prouder. e moment you see something like that Hunton, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 0SG 01622 823922 come back from press, you know it’s something people will get excited about. It suddenly [email protected] became very real for me and it wasn’t long before all of the wonderful feedback we received Managing Editor started pouring in. I can’t thank you enough for your continued support - this journey has been Michelle Teeman incredible and your feedback will continue to guide the magazine forward, so keep writing in! 01622 823920 [email protected] We are still celebrating the success of the second year of Country2Country Festival in the UK. e event was incredible - the O2 was a great venue for the show and the performances Editorial Assistants Chris Beck this year were second-to-none. ough it was my rst year at the festival, I’d heard a lot of [email protected] progress had been made on last year. e pop-up stages around the O2 bought their own fans, Charlotte Taylor the acts for the main arena bought people in from far and wide. For me, the biggest eye-opener [email protected] was when we stepped inside the arena late on Saturday night to watch last month’s cover stars Project Manager the Zac Brown Band perform. It was only the second time throughout the whole event that I’d Natasha Smith 01622 823927 actually managed to get inside the arena and what an incredible atmosphere there was. It was so [email protected] wonderful to see so many thousands of people turning up to support country music. In fact as Offi ce Manager the show opened and the Zac Brown Band took to the stage we turned to look at the audience Cherry Batchelor - and what an incredible sight it was! e show also gave me the opportunity to really welcome 01622 823920 [email protected] people to the magazine and also to listen to their opinions. I loved my time on the stand for this reason - asking people about the music they liked and the music they didn’t, and it was great Publisher David Rossiter to welcome so many new subscribers and readers to the magazine! So from myself and the 01622 823920 Maverick team, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us and for making the show [email protected] an unprecedented success. Maverick Staying on the topic of festivals a moment longer, this issue will be going to the CMA Festival Published by hand media Goldings, Elphicks Farm, in Nashville in June. We hope to meet many of you out there if you are making it across, but if Water Lane, Hunton, you’re not, we’ll make sure we bring you news of the event as it takes place and also follow it Kent, ME15 0SG. UK. Telephone: +44 (0) 1622 823920 with a write-up in the magazine. Fax: +44 (0) 1622 823933 Lastly, you’ll notice a few changes in this issue and online. Firstly, I’d like to highlight Email: [email protected] Website: www.maverick-country.com the new writers we welcome with this issue - I hope you like what they bring to the magazine and look forward to hearing your thoughts. Secondly, the magazine’s growing Subscriptions Maverick is on sale in the UK via the presence world-wide has resulted in an overall audience of over WH Smith network. Also available in 830,000 people! Ireland, Sweden, Norway and the USA. Contact Charlotte Taylor on 01622 823921 After meeting the American country music stars in the UK, or email [email protected] introducing new readers to the magazine and to the leading Reprints acts of the future and looking out over the packed arena at the For reprints of specifi c pages within O2, Maverick asks you, who said country music wasn’t thriving this magazine please telephone Natasha Smith on 01622 823927 in the UK? or email: [email protected] for more details. Designed and produced by hand media. ©2014. 235/mav/03/14 Laura Bethell Front cover image: © Anthony D’Angio www.frography.com @Maverick_Mag www.facebook.com/MaverickMagazine Contributors: Ian Ambrose, Chris Beck, Laura Bethell, David Brassington, John Brindle, Hayley Burgess, Bryan Chalker, Keith Clark, Paul Collins, Eric Dahl, Nick Dalton, Nick Dent-Robinson, Holley Dey, Alan Harrison, Ian Horne, John Jobling, Paul Kerr, Christopher Mark, Kevin Moug, Simon Redley, John Roffey, Emily Saxton, Chuck Schultz, Jeremy Searle, Jonathan Swift, Charlotte Taylor, Jela Webb, Arthur Wood. Photos: Anthony D’Angio, Kristin Barlowe, Keith Clark, Mikko Huotari, Claire O’Rorke, h a McLister, Simon Redley, Sue Roffey, Brian Tortoro, Richard Webb, Michael Wilson an di d me With thanks to: The Voice/The BBC Maverick 1 C O N T E N T S FEATURES 006 COUNTRY2COUNTRY A REVIEW OF THE MANY EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE AT C2C 2014 020 FESTIVAL PREVIEW 2014 THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL ROUND-UP 030 RHIANNON GIDDENS ENRICHING THE MUSICAL LANDSCAPE 032 FIREWORK MOUNTAIN COMPANY 036 ELI YOUNG BAND TRUE GRIT AND TEXAS DIRT 038 SALLY BARKER ‘THE VOICE’ WINNER 2014? 052 MARTINA McBRIDE COUNTRY SOUL 040 OCHRE ROOM 042 ELEPHANT REVIVAL LIFESTYLE 046 STEPHANIE MANNS 035 KALA U-BASS GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS 043 THE HISTORY OF THE HARMONICA 048 ALEX HART HART TO HEART 050 PAWNSHOP AMPS 052 MARTINA McBRIDE 058 GLEN CAMPBELL GUITAR COUNTRY SOUL 055 SANDI THOM SWINGING THE PENDULUM 060 BAND PERRY PIONEERS OF CONTEMPORARY COUNTRY 062 RASCAL FLATTS 068 EDITOR’S PICKS COVER FEATURE ISSUE NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- SIX MAY - JUNE 2014 C O N T E N T S 062 RASCAL FLATTS COVER FEATURE REGULARS 004 Letters 005 Maverick Covermount CD 010 Pickin & Grinnin’ ANAïS MITCHELL, LAURA CANTRELL, THE COALPORTERS, TAYLOR SWIFT, ERIC CHURCH 028 Nashville Notebook 068 CD Index & Editor’s Picks 069 CD Reviews NEW RELEASES 103 CD Reviews DUSTY RELICS 108 Tour Dates Index 036 ELI YOUNG BAND TRUE GRIT & TEXAS DIRT LETTERS, MESSAGES & TWEETS MARCH/APRIL 2014 MARCH/APRIL FACEBOOK Keep the good work up Laura and thanks for the article on Suzy Bogguss. She is playing Gateshead soon. Can’t wait to see her again. Been a Maverick subscriber since day 1. An essential guide to most of my musical tastes !!. I’m still applauding after seeing the Transatlantic WWW.MAVERICK-COUNTRY.COM Sessions a few weeks ago, then John Mc, John Doyle and Mike McGoldrick 4 days layer, also at Gatesheads Sage, a fantastic venue for acoustics. Take care n best seeing Lisa Redford, Raintown and Jessica wishes on yr New post! Clemmons on the pop up stages was a Geoff Lisle great bonus. There was something for everybody, cannot wait for 2015 and 229_Mav_cover FINAL.indd 1 31/01/2014 17:04 Laura,congrats on your first Maverick seeing who is on the lineup? Bring it on! Back in the early 90s, a friend as editor.Great issue.Really like the Albert Steven Walker gave me an LP knowing I was a Lee,Shelby Lynne and Suzy Boguss collector of anything strongly or features..... I’m sure you’ll be a great editor It was a wonderful weekend with loosely connected with country Laura, ,having worked ‘on everything such a great atmosphere and so much music. The cover had a cream Maverick’,as you say in your frst ever amazing live music going on. I did pop by marble effect and a mostly black ‘From The Editor’ You’ve interviewed Tay to say hello and great that you were so and white photo of the band, taken Swift and writen fine articles on her,even busy. Hope you like this video I’ve made in a graveyard with a statue of an the one you were too ill to have done the of C2C, has a little clip of the Maverick angel behind them with a layer of interviewing for.I’ve enjoyed your writing - stand!http://youtu.be/8aimMVWTTQw snow on the ground. The band on I think you did the Cerys Matthew feature. Lisa Redford the cover and back of the album You’ve often answered the phone to me was reminiscent of a punk rock on subscription & back issue orders & Picked up your magazine, it’s a great band and very effective. other queries.So you know Maverick.By read. Festival was brilliant, first time I almost always disregarded the look of the new Maverick,it’s in good attendees. The Band Perry particularly Irish and British bands with a few hands.Congrats. good and Brad Paisley a great headliner, exceptions, but because of the Francis Hatfield I also enjoyed Lisa Redord on the small unusual cover I played the album. stage and I got this lovely photo of her. I enjoyed it a lot. For me the song Great to meet you all again at C2C Jonathan Higham Our Song was outstanding, as good town square stand! The whole weekend as anything I had heard. The band was great, my highlights of the weekend These guys were so lovely to chat to... (British) was Red Moon Joe (what a were Dierks Bentley and Chris Young, Caz Batten name!).