Facts, Rumors & The Most Anticipated Albums for 2017
Just what 2017 has in store for us in the country music department remains to be seen. But we do know about what to expect in the release department for at least the first quarter of the year, while...
View ArticleConservatives & Independents Can Be Great Songwriters Too
There is no doubt that by any objective assessment, when it comes to the world of creative types in the realm of music or otherwise, their ranks tend to veer more towards liberal ideals when it comes...
View ArticleParker McCollum Wants Luke Bryan Fame for Chris Knight Songs
"I’m trying to make Luke Bryan money singing Chris Knight-caliber songs," Parker McCollum says. Parker says he's taking his cues from folks like Chris Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves who've found huge...
View ArticleWhiskey Myers Curated Firewater Festival Announces Lineup
Texas-based Southern rock band Whiskey Myers is set to launch their own personally-curated festival and annual gathering for their fans called the Firewater Festival, and they have just announced the...
View ArticleAlbum Review – The Barlow’s “Horseshoe Lounge”
Drawing influences from both their native environs, as well as bordering states like Texas for a more open sound, and Wyoming for some Western flavor---and then hopscotching a few states to draw on...
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Amid Meteoric Rise, 49 Winchester Plays Packed Pittsburgh Show
Friday night (4-7), 49 Winchester rolled into Pittsburgh, a.k.a the Paris of Appalachia, and played the newly renovated Thunderbird Cafe on a hot sell-out streak. After warming up the crowd with the...
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This Feels Big: Texas/Red Dirt Booking Agency Red 11 Acquired by WME
Though you may not nerd out enough about country music to wonder how your favorite Texas/Red Dirt artists end up playing at your local watering hole or wind up on a festival lineup, it's a very big...
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Chris 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...
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Apolitical 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...
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2012 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...
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Saving 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...
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Ray 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...
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Texas 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...
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7 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....
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Review – 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...
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Lee 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...
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Otis 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...
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Album 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...
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Sweet 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...
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Review – 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...
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