When considering the best female country albums of 2012, you might as well include Bear Creek. It’s a stylistic hybrid, to be sure, but one containing at least as many solid country tracks as your average album out of Nashville. Here’s Brandi Carlile (with Tim and Phil Hanseroth) doing “Keep Your Heart Young.”
Country California’s Best Country Albums of 2012
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Thanks for posting this. I really like the band, but don’t usually check the CMT website. Wish country radio would play this type of crossover music instead of trying to get people to think Kelly Clarkson is country.