Matt Hendrickson
Matt Hendrickson has been a contributing editor for Garden & Gun since 2008. A former staff writer at Rolling Stone, he’s also written for Fast Company and the New York Times and currently moonlights as a content producer for Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service in Athens, Ohio.
Music
With all due respect to the annual “song of summer,” the season needs more than just one song
Interview
The Avett Brothers return with a new album and a new outlook
Travel
Southern music history comes alive on the path between Memphis and Muscle Shoals
Arts & Culture
These seven Southern festivals will keep your summer rocking through Labor Day
Music
Stream a song from his new album, The Couchville Sessions
Interview
With a new album and more than five decades in music, the four-time Grammy winner looks back at her pioneering journey
Music
Chris Stapleton has become country music’s most surprising new star—and has sent a shock wave through Nashville
Music
Local boys make Memphis blues sound positively ebullient on debut album
Music
Sure, it’s still the middle of winter, but let us preemptively nominate the Song of the Summer
Music
Blues & Ballads contains 21 songs, and there’s no filler
Music
Minnesota might be several hundred miles from the Mason-Dixon line, but the Cactus Blossoms craft a vintage country sound akin to those other brother duos, Louvin and Everly
Artists
With a knack for authentic songwriting and a voice that will move you, the artist has exploded onto the national stage — and given an old sound a burst of new energy
Music
The artist returns with an album steeped in the power of renewal
Music
It’s been an unbelievable year for Southern albums, songs, and artists
Music
The musician plumbs a beautiful sadness on The Ghosts of Highway 20