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January 7, 2016

Dumbass Thief Caught Trying to Return Kacey Musgraves’ Stolen Boots — Pants Still Missing

All’s well that ends well for country music starlet Kacey Musgraves. The songwriter and Texas native was the victim of a boot snatching on Monday, January 4th in Nashville after a thief smashed out the window of her car parked across the street from the 3rd and Lindsley music venue, and made off with a brand new pair of Lucchese boots, and another pair of Charlotte Olympias, together valued at about $900.00.

Kacey Musgraves

January 6, 2016

Fans Speak Up After Numerous Drunken Performances by Turnpike Troubadours’ Evan Felker

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Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker is one of the most respected songwriters in Texas Country/Red Dirt and beyond, including just having his song “The Bird Watchers” named Saving Country Music’s Song of the Year for 2015. But after numerous drunken performances, some fans are in an uproar, while others are reaching out with sympathy and concern for the songwriter.

Brad Rice, drunk, Evan Felker, Hangover Ball, Jason Boland, Music Fest, Steamboat Springs, Turnpike Troubadours

January 6, 2016

Song Review – Trace Adkins’ “Jesus and Jones”

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Boy this thing sure had me intrigued when I first saw the image of Trace Adkins looking all contrite, weathered, and wise in the promotional picture with his hat in his hand, like he was ready to ask for forgiveness for all the Honky Tonk Badonka Donkin’ of his earlier career, and the gratuitous puppet sex of his “Brown Chicken Brown Cow” effort. Perhaps he was ready to be washed in the blood of good ol’ true country music.

George Jones, Jesus and Jones, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins, Tyler Farr

January 5, 2016

How Country Was the Original Guns N’ Roses?

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The original lineup of the once massive (and soon to be again) hard rock band Guns N’ Roses is apparently back on speaking terms, and has just been announced as one of the headliners of California’s Coachella Festival in April, with a potential stadium tour brewing according to sources sleeping with the band.

Axl Rose, Brantley Gilbert, Carrie Underwood, David Allan Coe, Guns N' Roses, Steve Earle

January 5, 2016

Chris Stapleton Booked as Musical Guest for ‘Saturday Night Live’

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The performance will come less than a month after Stapleton gave a rousing performance on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon where he left Questlove and the rest of America in shock. Perhaps Lorne Michaels was watching from the wing, or heard about the performance through the grapevine (the two shows tape in the same building in NYC), and decided he wanted some of that action.

Chris Stapleton, Saturday Night Live

January 4, 2016

Dave Cobb Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal

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Producer, guitar player, and songwriter Dave Cobb has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music. The deal was announced Monday (1-4), and also includes the formation of Cobb’s own publishing arm, Low Country Sound Publishing. The news comes after an incredible 2015 for Cobb…

A Thousand Horses, Anderson East, Brandy Clark, Chris Stapleton, Corb Lund, Dave Cobb, Elektra Records, Holly Williams, HoneyHoney, Jason Isbell, Lindi Ortega, Miranda Lambert, Southern Family, Sturgill Simpson, Warner/Chappell Music

January 4, 2016

Missing Backroad Anthem Singer Craig Strickland Found Dead

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Search teams worked extensively to locate Strickland throughout the New Years Eve weekend as friends, fans, and family held prayer vigils for the missing singer. But on Monday, January 4th, the body of Strickland was found along the shoreline of Kaw Lake, north of where the boat had capsized. The 168 miles of shore length had made the search especially difficult for search and recovery teams.

Backroad Anthem, Craig Strickland

January 4, 2016

An Ode to Robby Turner: Country Music’s Man of Steel

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Just like Dave Cobb, and just like Chris Stapleton before him, Robby Turner has been working for years behind-the-scenes, at the side of the stage, or in the studio, while others soaked up the spotlight. But the power of his efforts, and the success of the projects that he’s been a part of, has slowly but surely revealed Robby as one of those behind-the-scenes legends whose contributions should be left a secret no more.

Bernice Turner, Charlie Rich, Chips Moman, Chris Stapleton, Dave Cobb, Dixie Chicks, Doyle Turner, Hank Williams, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Robby Turner, Shot Jackson, Sturgill Simpson, The Highwaymen, The Singing Rambos, Traveller, Waylon Jennings, Yelawolf

January 3, 2016

Powerful Music Video Captures Poignant Moments for Recent Flood Victims

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From the small community of McClure, Illinois, right on the banks of the Mississippi, Even Webb looked to capture the despondency of living in a dying town in the song “Dry Up or Drown.” When the Mississippi overran its banks once again, life imitated art.

Dry Up or Drown, Evan Webb, Evan Webb and the Rural Ramblers

January 3, 2016

Jackson Taylor Cancels Shows After Throat Cancer Scare

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Jackson Taylor and The Sinners have rescheduled this upcoming week’s shows after what initially appeared to be a sore throat has turned into a potentially more serious situation for the band’s illustrious frontman. Meanwhile fans are hoping for a positive prognosis for Taylor.

Jackson Taylor, Jackson Taylor and the Sinners

January 2, 2016

Waylon, Willie, Cash, Leon & Charlie: Slew of FM Broadcasts from Country Legends Set for Release

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The Outlaw era of music may be long gone, but we’re about to get a dousing of new music from the legendary period in the form of live concerts originally broadcast on radio that will now appear as album releases this March. Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Leon Russell, and the Charlie Daniels Band will all have live FM broadcasts of released.

Charlie Daniels, Charlie Daniels Band, FM Concert Broadcasts, Johnny Cash, Leon Russell, Return of The Outlaw: The Abbott, Riding the Northeast Trail: The New Jersey Broadcast 1979, Saratoga Showdown: The New York Broadcast 1979, Texas Broadcast 1973, Unchained in a Rusty Cage: New York Broadcast 1996, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

January 1, 2016

Saving Country Music’s 2015 Album of the Year

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Too often in music we tend to focus on the here and now, the young and the new. Who are the hot names that are rising up in the ranks? Who’s going to make a big splash in music in the coming months and years? All this talk is understandable. It’s fun. But this is not always the best exercise for fleshing out who actually has the music most worthy of being recognized.

Chris Stapleton, Complicated Game, Don Henley, James McMurtry, Jason Isbell, Randy Rogers, Turnpike Troubadours, Wade Bowen, Ward Thomas, Whitey Morgan, Yelawolf

December 31, 2015

Album Review – Colter Wall’s “Imaginary Appalachia”

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There are many who fancy that they have the calling to make country music in their blood. There’s far fewer who actually do. And then there’s some whose entire fabric seems to have coalesced into a human form for the sole purpose of being a vessel for country music to emanate from, and they couldn’t avoid the vocation if they tried. Colter Wall probably falls somewhere close to that latter category.

Colter Wall, Imaginary Appalachia, Lincoln Durham, Review, Shakey Graves, Townes Van Zandt

December 30, 2015

Saving Country Music’s 2015 Song(s) of the Year

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When it comes to picking the “best” songs from a given time period, it’s a much more subjective chore than selecting the best albums or the best artists. Our relationship with songs is just so much more intimate. The emotions songs can touch tend to range so much farther on the spectrum. To discover a song that really touches you, it’s not just dependent on the songwriter to write and perform a compelling tune.

Cody Jinks, David, Evan Felker, John Moreland, Parker Milsap, Samantha Crain, The Bird Hunters, Turnpike Troubadours, Woody Guthrie

December 29, 2015

David McCormick, Owner of the Ernest Tubb Record Shops, Gravely Ill in Hospital

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One of country music’s oldest, and most important institutions is once again facing tough times as the 20-year owner of the Ernest Tubb Record Shops, David McCormick, is suffering from congestive heart failure and pneumonia, and is currently in a Nashville-area hospital. “For over forty years, David McCormick has been a tremendous friend to the […]

David McCormick, Eddie Stubbs, Ernest Tubb, Ernest Tubb Record Shops

December 29, 2015

Saving Country Music’s 2015 Artist of the Year

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To be a Saving Country Music Artist of the Year, you can’t just be “good.” It’s not about releasing some great songs or a significant album in a given calendar year. You have to be committed to the cause, both on and off the stage. You have to care about country music, even when you’re not playing it, even when it doesn’t affect you specifically, and even when it’s not politically expedient . . .

Artist of the Year, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Maddie Marlow, Sonic Ranch, Sturgill Simpson, Whitey Morgan, Whitey Morgan and the 78's

December 28, 2015

More Than Just Miranda Lambert and Anderson East Hooking Up

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Forget all the sappy relationship stuff, and how it happened and where it might lead. Miranda Lambert ditching Blake Shelton and ending up with Anderson East might be the perfect illustration of the drastic role reversal 2015 has ushered in throughout the greater country music realm, and how 2016 could be poised to completely turn everything upside down.

Aaron Watson, Adam Hood, Anderson East, Ashley Monroe, Blackberry Smoke, Brandy Clark, Chris Stapleton, Dave Cobb, David Rawlings, Fred Eaglesmith, Gillian Welch, Holly Williams, Jason Isbell, John Prine, Miranda Lambert, Patty Griffin, Steve Earle, Sturgill Simpson, Zac Brown

December 28, 2015

Facts & Rumors: The Albums to Look Forward To In 2016

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Who will be releasing new albums in 2016? What are some of the most-anticipated projects? What are the rumors swirling out there about new albums that may be released in the coming year? Here’s a rundown of upcoming projects from artists recommended by Saving Country Music that you can look forward to in 2016.

Aubrie Sellers, Austin Lucas, Brandy Clark, Brothers Osborne, Buddy Miller, Caleb Caudle, Dave Cobb, Don Maddox, Hank Williams Jr., Hayes Carll, Holly Williams, Jack Ingram, Justin Timberlake, Loretta Lynn, Lorrie Morgan, Lucinda Williams, Marty Stuart, Rachel Brooke, Randy Rogers Band, Sturgill Simpson, The Cactus Blossoms, The Infamous Stringdusters, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Waco Brothers

December 27, 2015

In Memoriam: 2015’s Fallen Country Music Greats

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As Christmas festivities come to a close and New Years comes into focus, it’s once again time to reflect back on all of the country music greats we lost in the last year. From huge celebrity stars, to influential songwriters and side musicians who impacted the music out of the spotlight, country music lost many notable names in 2015.

Bill Keith, Billy Joe Royal, Billy Sherrill, Bob Burns, Bobby Emmons, Bonnie Lou, BUddy Emmons, Chuck Pyle, Daron Norwood, David Rodriguez, Don Chapel, Don Pfrimmer, Jim Ed Brown, Joe B. Maudlin, Johnny Gimble, Jon Hensley, Little Jimmy Dickens, Lynn Anderson, Owen Mays, Ramona Jones, Randy Howard, Tom Skinner, Tommy Overstreet

December 24, 2015

Movie Review – Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors”

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Coat of Many Colors, which aired originally on Thursday, December 10th and will be rebroadcast on NBC Christmas Night, was not some sort of astounding feat of movie magic. What was astounding is how good it was as a television movie, and aside from some isolated moments, avoided much of the schmaltzy, cheeseball, cornpone feel that can completely ruin what otherwise might be a strong premise.

Alyvia Alyn Lind, Coat of Many Colors, Dolly Parton, Jenninfer Nettles

December 23, 2015

Rock and Roll Review – The Bellfuries’ “Workingman’s Bellfuries”

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Forget what you should call this music, if it fits in Americana, or if a country website should even be talking about it. The songs themselves are excellent, and truthfully, shoving the music and arrangements to the side for a moment, if you would call the songs of “Workingman’s Bellfuries” anything, you might have to call them country.

Anderson East, Dave Cobb, JD McPherson, Jimmy Sutton, Joey Simeone, Leon Bridges, NIck Curran, Pokey LaFarge, Review, The Bellfuries, The Grateful Dead, Workingman's Bellfuries

December 22, 2015

Americana’s New Board Includes Dave Cobb / Awards Expand to the UK

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The Americana Music Association has announced its newest Board of Directors, and signing on for a seat this upcoming year is fast rising producer Dave Cobb. On top of seating a new board, the Americana Music Association recently announced the inaugural UK Americana Awards will be held in London.

Americana, Americana Music Association, Billy Bragg, Dave Cobb, Gretchen Peters, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, UK Americana Awards

December 22, 2015

Brantley Gilbert Did NOT Donate $10.5 Million to Toys For Tots

Trigger Down with Pop Country 138 Comments

Yes ladies and gentlemen, over the last 24 hours or so, this “Brantley Gilbert Makes $10.5 Million Donation to Toys For Tots” headline has been circulating like a bad venereal disease passed around after the drunken office Christmas party, spreading all across the complicit landscape of country music media without anyone questioning the accuracy or legitimacy of the claim.

Bendon, Brantley Gilbert, Toys For Tots

December 21, 2015

The Top News Stories of 2015

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It was a busy year in country music, with lots of controversy, lots of legal issues, and even death surrounding country music artists. It was a tumultuous 2015 to say the least. Here are the top news stories of the year taking into consideration 1) Their importance to country music overall 2) The interest, or accumulated interest in the story if covered in multiple articles, based on traffic registered at Saving Country Music.

Aaron Watson, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Ferrell, Chris Stapleton, Garth Brooks, Gary Overton, Jason Aldean, Jason Isbell, Joey + Rory, Joey Feek, Keith Hill, Little Jimmy Dickens, Luke Bryan, Merle Haggard, Randy Howard, Stoney LaRue, Tim McGraw, Wayne Mills, Willie Nelson

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