On Colter Wall’s Tour Cancellation and “Indefinite Hiatus”
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It’s better to read statements about cancellations and postponements instead of deaths and funerals. Colter Wall should be given the grace to find whatever equilibrium is necessary for him to continue in music.
Justice Department’s New Deal with Live Nation Stinks
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There is probably one opportunity, and one opportunity only to solve the biggest problem plaguing the live music industry in the United States, and that is the current trial that Live Nation is going through.
Album Review – William Clark Green’s “Watterson Hall”
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By really personalizing the songs on this album, taking a few years to re-align his compass, and becoming a father and a purposeful life partner creates a center of gravity that makes this record feel like an achievement.
Bob Dylan Shouts Out Hank Williams III in New Post
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Perhaps Bob Dylan is feeling a little nostalgic for his time in Nashville, or maybe thinking about making a country-inspired project yet again. With his latest post, he highlighted Hank Williams III.
Justin Townes Earle’s Tragic Life Story Told in New Book
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Don’t let the word “authorized” spook you into believing this account in any way sugar coats or omits the truth of things. On the contrary, the biography is a stark, harrowing, and sometimes difficult story to tell and read.
Texas Tornados Member, Tex-Mex Music Legend Augie Meyers Dies
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He was an American music original, a Texas music legend, a beloved member of the Tex-Mex/Tejano music community, and a psychedelic rocker before he was anything else. He was Augie Meyers.
Album Review – Trey Hensley’s “Can’t Outrun The Blues”
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Hensley’s music doesn’t just come with that wide open appeal, it deserves that wide open audience to reintroduce this blinding, inspiring musicianship back into the national conversation of what music should be.
New Additions to Alan Jackson’s Final Concert are Family
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Though none of them like to broadcast it too loudly because they want to stand on their own two feet, Alan Jackson has numerous relatives in the country music business. They’ve been added to his final show.
New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#174)
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There are now over 11,000 people following this playlist on Spotify alone. Nobody pays to get on this playlist. You have to earn it by releasing a great country song. And with limited spots, you know each song is tops.
Separating the Signal from the Noise of Sturgill Simpson’s “Mutiny” Leak
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The second album from Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds (Sturgill Simpson) called ‘Mutiny After Midnight’ is not officially out until March 13th. But it’s fair to wonder if that March 13th date is relevant now.
Album Review – JD Graham’s “Uppers & Downers”
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This is an artist who only knows how to write the most brutally honest, the most touching and unburdening songs each time pen meets paper, never willing to settle for anything that feels even remotely empty.
Big Country Radio Station Owner Cumulus Files For Bankruptcy. Again.
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Cumulus Media, the owner of some 65 country music radio stations in the United States, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yet again. The company first filed for bankruptcy in 2017.
March 6th is a BIG Release Day. Here’s Your Guide
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Look alive country music fans! March 6th is one of those release days where the there are multiple big, anticipated releases, along with a lot of releases by volume. Good thing you know about. Here is your guide.