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 ...

BR549's third studio album, and its debut for Audium, finds the guys transcending the retro-hillbilly cover band image as a seasoned, lean, roots country machine. By Billboard Staff BR549’s third ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If BR549 were like most country bands, it would have broken up a long time ago. It would have splintered under the pressure of touring schedules that kept ...

Reunions — seems like they’re the thing to do these days for bands launched in the ‘90s. You can often smell the money-making, nostalgia-fueled agenda a mile away — especially when it’s obvious ...

If BR549 were like most country bands, it would have busted up a long time ago. It would have splintered under the pressure of touring schedules that kept the roots-savvy ensemble on the road for as ...

The band’s name will invoke memories among those of us who watched “Hee Haw” on early Saturday evenings. BR549 takes its name from the phone number used by the goofy “Hee Haw” character Junior Sample ...

For Chuck Mead, the sound of classic country is the sound of his soul. Mead, lead singer for the on-hiatus country band BR549, grew up playing drums in a family band. "When I was 12 years old, I was ...

It’s been a time of uncertainty and quite a bit of excitement for BR549, the Nashville stalwarts known for incendiary live shows that feature country standards and the band’s own riotous hillbilly ...

In the mid-1990s, the honky tonk quintet BR549 emerged from Nashville's then-seedy Lower Broadway neighborhood to scale the heights of country music success. The band performed with Faith Hill, Tim ...

BR549 showed great potential when its debut disc was released a decade ago, but the group has spent more time since then reformulating its lineup than it has growing its sound. It has recently been ...

In the alt-country sphere, BR549 has long been a standard-bearer for a kind of imaginary Nashville that never forgot the lessons imparted by the hardcore honky-tonk values of Bakersfield, and stood by ...