Zach Top Scores His First #1 Country Song
Like Zach Top’s meteoric success, it symbolizes the resurgence of neotraditional country in the mainstream, and is opening up doors for other traditional country artists.
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60 Year Ago: Johnny Cash is Arrested for “Picking Flowers”
Of course, there was a little more going on than innocently picking flowers. But that’s how Johnny Cash loved to portray it at the time, before he was more open and honest about his substance abuse issues.
Pioneering Hispanic Country Music Star Johnny Rodriguez Has Died
Any serious fan of 1970’s country music worth their salt will know the name, the hits, and doesn’t need to be sold on the importance of Johnny Rodriguez. Six #1 songs, fourteen Top 5’s, twenty Top 10’s…
Zach Bryan vs. John Moreland Just Got Real
You had to know that Zach Bryan signing a $350 million publishing deal was going to have reverberations throughout the industry. Apparently those reverberations reached Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Album Review – Kristina Murray’s “Little Blue”
This album is very moody and brooding, but this also what makes the listening experience so enveloping and intoxicating. Kristina Murray’s music and story prey on your musical empathy, and suck you in.
Album Review – Caitlin Cannon’s “Love Addict”
Few if any songwriters exhibit the fearlessness towards the art form that country music’s Caitlin Cannon does. Unfiltered, and in certain cases, uninhibited, she’s willing to go to the places that all of our minds do.
Alan Jackson Receives Major, Unexpected Honor at ACM Awards
Alan Jackson was the inaugural recipient of the ACM Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Annual ACM Awards in Dallas (Frisco), TX. Announced right before he took the stage.
The 2025 ACM Awards LIVE Blog
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2025 ACM Awards LIVE Blog! As the event transpires, we’ll be following along in real time, razzing on folks for poor performances and life choices, and giving credit where it is due.
Why Backing Tracks Are Frowned Upon in Country Music
Country music is unlike most other popular music genres. It’s humans impressing fingers on wood and wire, and singing from the gut and soul in the beautiful imperfection of authentic expression.
Zach Bryan Gets His … And Then Some
So much for releasing only one more major label album, mostly stepping away from music, or outright retiring altogether, all of which Zach Bryan has flirted with or overtly promised over the last year or two.
50 Years Ago: Willie Nelson Drops the “Greatest Country Album of All Time”
It wasn’t just a country album. It was the country album. It ended one era in country music, and began a new one, while going on to define the era it founded, and to define country music for generations.
Release Radar & Most Anticipated Albums for 2nd Half of 2025
No rest for independent country music fans in the second half of 2025. Some excellent country music projects will be coming at you, and this is your updating guide too get you through it all.
10 Years Ago: Chris Stapleton Revolutionizes Country with Landmark Album
There are just a few landmark records that you can point back to in the history of country music and legitimately claim they revolutionized the genre in fundamental ways.
Album Review – Christopher Seymore’s “King of Nothing”
It’s ten kick ass, easy-to-love country songs that sound just like country music always has, and always should. But if you want to delve a little bit deeper, you’ll also discover its quiet genius.
Mark Chesnutt Comes Clean About Battles with Alcohol
We almost lost Mark Chesnutt, and a couple of times, and for multiple reasons. And that would have been a devastating loss for country music. Mark Chesnutt a ’90s country hero up there with some of the best of the era.
Album Review – Eric Church’s “Evangeline vs. The Machine”
Congratulations Eric Church fans, this is what you waited four years for—seven new songs and a Tom Waits cover spectacularly overproduced by Jay Joyce. “Evangeline vs. The Machine” is right…
Opry’s 100th Anniversary Book Doesn’t Shy Away from Controversy
Would we only get a wine and roses portrayal of the Opry, especially through the modern era? Or would it be willing to present the accurate history, warts and all? Luckily, the latter is the case.
Album Review – Mason Via (Self-Titled)
Combining adept flat-picking with top-caliber songwriting and a voice perfectly tooled for bluegrass, Mason Via brings an accessibility and immediacy to the bluegrass discipline.
Brent Cobb Reveals “Ain’t Rocked in a While” Tour Dates
Something has gotten into our sweet little South Georgia boy Brent Cobb. Were used to him softly cooing gentle country songs in our ear as we laze away a warm sunny Sunday afternoon.
Comedian Tom Segura Clowns on Garth Brooks in New Series
If you’ve ever interfaced with almost anything involving Garth Brooks on the internet over the last few years, you’ve probably noticed all of the “Where are all the bodies Garth?” comments and other weird trolling.
Cody Jinks Announces New Album “In My Blood”
The modern King of Outlaw Country isn’t one for lounging around for a few years in between albums. After releasing a new studio album and a Lefty Frizzell tribute in 2024, Cody Jinks will release his latest album called “In My Blood.”
The Iconic Sho-Bud Steel Guitar Is Officially Back
A steel guitar crying and moaning in a song is one of the most iconic sounds in all of country music. And if you know anything about steel guitars, then you know about Sho-Bud.
Red Clay Strays, Zach Top, Ella Langley Win Early ACM Awards
It’s just the ACM Awards. And it’s just their “New Artist of the Year” categories that are split into three separate awards. But the good guys won, and it does perhaps portend positive things for the future.
Country Is Surging in Country Music. But Pop Stars are Confusing the Signal
The trend of pop projects being pushed to the country market that started in earnest with Beyoncé is beginning to look less like a short-lived trend for 2024, and now becoming endemic.