The Social Change music sampler is up and ready to change the world! The Boxmasters single "The Poor House" was selected by The Alternate Route as a Song for Social Change. Each Song for Social Change is now available for download on The Alternate Route website.

The Boxmasters join James McMurtry, Jason & The Scorchers, Christine Ohlman, Chip Taylor, Gary Allegretto and Kasey Anderson are having their voices heard! Feel free to make this compilation viral. The world needs to hear what these artists have to say!

The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.

This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.

The Boxmasters are proud to support National Record Store Day...and are doing something very special to continue the celebration. More to come later!

The Boxmasters and Billy Bob Thornton are featured on the cover of the brand new, collector's first edition of Twisted South Magazine!

Two lucky souls who order the collector's first edition will get a Billy Bob Thornton, signed cover - so click here to check it out today!

I grew up in Arkansas, in a town called Malvern, a town of about 9,000 people. We had this one little record shop in town, Paula’s Records. It was the only place you could buy records. The old lady that ran it, Paula, used to chase us out of there because we’d stay all day, just looking at the records. We couldn’t really afford to buy them.

The first record I ever bought was in Paula’s, it was “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles. I bought the 45 and it was the time I’d ever bought anything with my own money. To this day, that record is the thing I credit as being the catalyst for me wanting to be in the entertainment business, particularly in a band.

When we went in there, we’d just look through everything. We would thumb through the 45s in those paper sleeves and look at the pictures. We had these fan magazines in those days, and we’d see the bands and then there we were, looking at their records. Most of the time we couldn’t afford to buy them, so we’d just stare.

This fall, The Boxmasters will release Bellflower, their fourth record on Vanguard/Sawmill Records. As with their previous releases, Bellflower is a 2 CD set featuring one disc of original songs and one disc of cover songs. Bellflower comes on the heels of the band’s current CD, Modbilly, which reached the Number One spot on the Americana Radio Chart for two consecutive weeks and was named one of the top 100 Records by the Americana Music Association in 2009.

Log on to listen to The Boxmasters hang with Steve Jones on his widely renowned Jonesy's Jukebox program running on iamrogue.com Monday, Jan. 18 at 12noon PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET.

The Americana Music Association announced its year end Top 100 Albums of the Year. The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported during the period of November 17, 2008 through November 16, 2009.

The Top Twenty most played albums, as charted on the Americana Airplay Chart are:
1. Buddy & Julie Miller
2. Steve Earle
3. Slaid Cleaves
4. Flatlanders
5. Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel
6. Gourds
7. Tejas Brothers
8. Levon Helm
9. Justin Townes Earle
10. J.J.Cale
11. Son Volt
12. Lucinda Williams
13. Todd Snider
14. Boxmasters
15. Ryan Adams and The Cardinals
16. Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
17. Ryan Bingham
18. Wilco
19. Eilen Jewell
20. Charlie Robison

1. Buddy Holly: The Apartment Tapes (Geffen). Fine – so they were recorded 50 years ago. Still, it took this long to finally get a proper CD version (on the Down the Line: Rarities compilation). These songs, in their undubbed form, are filled with more truth, beauty and sadness than anything I heard all year.

2. Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Columbia). More blues-based than Dylan’s other late-career masterpieces, it carried the dust of authenticity, with grace to spare.