Newest Additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#51)
Every Friday, more and more killer albums just keep coming, especially lately, and at such a rapid pace that it's hard to keep on top of it all. That's part of the point of keeping the Saving Country...
View Article2019 Saving Country Music Album of the Year Nominees
When it comes to top-tier releases in the country and roots realm, 2019 was a year like we've never seen before. Though it feels like we say that every year, 2019 truly was exceptional. The albums...
View Article2019 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
A Saving Country Music Song of the Year candidate is not just your favorite ditty that gets stuck in your head. These are songs that change hearts, change lives, rest in your head for years to come,...
View ArticleTyler Childers Sets 3-Night Sold Out Record at Kentucky Arena
Forget that in less than two months from now, Tyler Childers will be taking off on a national arena tour with fellow Kentuckian and producer Sturgill Simpson that is already some 25% sold out, Tyler...
View ArticleChris Knight’s ‘Little Victories’: A Political Album Done Right
This is the exact album that the United States of America needs right here, right now, at this very moment in time. Finally, someone has the courage and the wisdom to use music to reassure people of...
View ArticleApolitical Country Songs To Help Survive The Political Season
About this time every four years the political rhetoric reaches critical mass as TV, radio, and the internet are permeated with political ads, while your personal social network feed is filled with...
View Article2012 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
Every year this list stirs a little controversy because people misunderstand that these are not supposed to be the songs you "like" the best, but instead is supposed to be compositions in a given year...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s 25 Essential Albums for 2012
Here is the list of 25 albums Saving Country Music deems essential for 2012 listening, and then I added an extra one I couldn't leave off. Please note this list only includes albums that have been...
View ArticleRay Lawrence Jr. Offers Up “More Raw Stuff”
Like Chris Knight, Ray Lawrence Jr. is a simple man who has this sensational talent to be able to put defining moments of the human experience to words and music in a way that rekindles the feelings of...
View ArticleTexas Music Offers Template for Regional Revitalization
Texas music is becoming hard wired and institutionalized, and this creates a few game-changing, long-term effects on the overall country music landscape. It is offering a template to the rest of the...
View Article7 Songwriters That Will Change Your Life
There are songwriters, and then there are songwriters; those folks that so effortlessly set words to the moods and moments of life and that can make you weep like a baby or wildly happy to be alive....
View ArticleReview – Will Hoge’s “Never Give In”
Will Hoge in so many ways is sitting in the enviable catbird seat of music crossroads right now. As country music continuously favors a more rock than country sound, Will Hoge, without having to make...
View ArticleLee Ann Womack’s “The Way I’m Livin'” Album Coming
Fans of Lee Ann Womack have been waiting not-so-patiently since 2008's Call Me Crazy for new music from the multi-Grammy and multi-CMA Award winner, and on September 23rd they'll finally get their...
View ArticleOtis Gibbs Shares His “Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth”
A troubadour in every sense of the word, Otis Gibbs is an artist who can inspire even the most timid among us to shush a burly bar troll talking over one of his performances. This is music to lean in...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Lee Ann Womack’s “The Way I’m Livin'”
This isn't just your average album release, or even your average album release from Lee Ann Womack. This one has a little more special meaning for Womack since it is her first release without a major...
View ArticleSweet GA Brown Proves He’s A ‘Wordsmith’ in New Album
Sweet GA Brown is the real deal when it comes to songwriters---sweating under a blue collar all day to earn the right to sing in swill joints at night. His music emanates from the small town of...
View ArticleReview – Lee Ann Womack Sings Chris Knight’s “Send It On Down”
When Lee Ann Womack set out to construct her 2014 album The Way I'm Livin', she went looking for songs that weren't written by committee as is the norm in Nashville these days, but songs that...
View ArticleThe Best Country Songs of 2015 So Far
Being willing to see where a song takes you is at the heart of every music lover, and in this spirit I present eleven hand selected songs released in the first half of 2015 that will hopefully take you...
View ArticleCountry Artists Who Are Due to Release a New Record
There's not much worse than having a hankering for some new music from one of your favorite artists, but feeling like you've been waiting forever for it to happen. There are many reasons an artist or...
View ArticleChris Knight Addresses Delay in New Music
There is nothing like a Chris Knight album and a Chris Knight song. The consummate songwriter’s songwriter, Chris Knight is one of the most revered in the craft, and all you have to do is look at the...
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