Chuck Mead makes a virtue out of relaxation on his new full-length Journeyman's Wager, but the narratives have a knockabout air, and the former BR549 leader sounds like he's learned to roll with a few ...

Mead believes in a spontaneous show, he said in a phone interview from Branson, Missouri. “It’s all very much stream of consciousness. I’ve got to feel the crowd out, see what they’re feeling and just ...

In "Reno County Girl," Chuck Mead serenades us with a tale about a young woman with whom his narrator fell in love. It's a loping country song, Mead's version of cowboy music, but as its pretty melody ...

Mead will always be a local hero for his part some 15 years ago in the resurrection of Lower Broadway’s honky-tonk scene—no question one of Nashville’s defining developments of the last two decades.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Million Dollar Quartet Christmas album is produced by Chuck Mead with ...

Steve Earle, "Townes": For "Townes," Steve Earle selected 15 songs by his mentor/inspiration, Townes Van Zandt, and recorded 11 of them in his New York apartment on guitar in the fashion that Townes ...

High-energy area honky-tonk band The Shootouts recently found themselves the object of praise from Rolling Stone for a newly released song called "Rattlesnake Whiskey": "The Shootouts mix supple ...

Unless you've got pyrotechnics at your disposal, playing in the Washington area on the Fourth of July is kind of a bad idea. At Chuck Mead's Iota gig, barstools outnumbered patrons even though the ...