All the nominees for the 2024 Saving Country Music Album of the Year deserve nothing but praise for being catalysts for the country music revolution we’re currently enjoying. But only one can take the prize.
Welcome to 2025! Hopefully it will be a prosperous year in country music. As usual, the amount of releases coming out early in the year is a little light, but that doesn’t mean it won’t include some heavy hitters.
Before we look forward to 2025, let’s look back at 2024 and remember the important individuals we lost, from huge superstars, to songwriters and side players. They all contributed to the music we love, and deserve to be remembered.
Welcome to Saving Country Music’s most comprehensive guide to music in a given year, The Essential Albums List. It includes the “Most Essential” Albums, and then other albums reviewed and deemed worthy.
Part of the story that’s rarely told is the cautionary tale portion. While Willie Nelson was puffing away on the roof of the White House, he had a cast on his foot. It happens to be that his weed consumption had something to do with it.
Detox from the onslaught of Christmas music with some of the best songs released in late 2024, along with some of the very promising singles released ahead of highly-anticipated albums for 2025.
There are few if any other musical outfits who have so consistently shown a gift for unlocking the sheer unmitigated joy in music through a combination of talent and toil.
Singer and songwriter Kiely Connell first burst into the music consciousness in 2021 with her excellent debut album “Calumet Queen.” Her voice was so striking, and her songs so emotive and cutting, she made a lasting impression.
Put Hudson Westbrook in your growing list of younger performers finding surprising success with more classic sounds, and helping to set true country music on a promising trajectory.
The Saving Country Music Artist of the Year is someone who rekindles our spirit and hope that country music will be something future generations will also enjoy, and in it’s most genuine form.
When it comes to songwriter, actor, painter, poet, writer, comedian, academic, and musician John Hadley, somehow the term “Renaissance Man” doesn’t seem to encapsulate the full breadth of his contributions.
There are many music festivals these days, but there’s only one Telluride Bluegrass Festival. As one of the oldest and most prestigious music gatherings in the world, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience each year.
Music isn’t just here to fill empty moments of time, and distract us from the mundane actions that make up the majority of our days. The best of music inspires the best of us as people. It rewires our brains.
The final phase of Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music is finally moving forward, with a groundbreaking ceremony held last week (12-16) in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Imagine an alternative universe where Dolly Parton didn’t become a big star, and despite her incredible talent and portfolio of songs, she was a 30-something somewhat unknown singer/songwriter struggling in relative obscurity.
To tell the story of David Mallett, you must start with “Garden Song.” Having Pete Seeger cover one of your songs is the ultimate validation in folk circles, but a cavalcade of performers added it to their repertoire.
Blackstone is far and away the largest commercial landlord in history, and now these cretins have decided that the way to entice new investors to their funds is to “go country,” dressing their executive suite robber barons in cowboy duds.
If you’re looking for that perfect Christmas playlist that specializes in country music, and is dedicated to new songs or new version of old classics released this year, you’ve come to the right place.
You can’t save country music while ignoring commercial country. One of the ways we address the mainstream is by highlighting the best albums in the mainstream in hopes they help influence country moving forward.
This is the story of the Christmas kidnapping and robbery of Johnny Cash and his family. It happened on Christmas Day 1982 at 6:00 pm, just as Johnny Cash, members of his family, and distinguished guests had sat down for Christmas dinner.
Ever since the rise of social media, the various platforms have never been more diluted and Balkanized, turning once vibrant, active, and engaged music communities into a diaspora splayed amongst a of host of different services.
What Brooks & Dunn fans really want to know is if or when the duo might be interested in releasing some legitimately new music. It’s been since 2007’s Cowboy Town that they did. Well, according to Kix Brooks…
If you’ve already composed your “Best of 2024” list, you better have done it in pencil and not ink, because Ty Smith & The Minor Offenses out of Oklahoma will be butting in line here momentarily and demanding to be near the top.
Everyone knows about Willie Nelson’s country music legacy, his altruistic endeavors through Farm Aid and other initiatives. But not enough is made about Willie Nelson the entrepreneur.
