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December 11, 2012

Luke Bryan Wins 9 ACA’s By Winning “Best Female” Awards

Last night the 2012 American Country Awards transpired on Fox, with Luke Bryan coming out as the big winner. The Georgia native walked away with an unprecedented 9 awards. How did the country singer rack up so many trophies? By giving a new meaning to the term “crossover appeal,” taking awards in both male and female categories, including the coveted Female Artist of the Year, and Female Single of the Year for the song, “I Don’t Want This Night To End.”

ACA Awards, fake news, Luke Bryan

December 10, 2012

Jo Dee Messina Is Latest Artist To Leave Curb Records

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Curb Records’ talent roster continues to contract. The latest defector is Jo Dee Messina, whose charted 9 #1 hits and sold more than 5 million records worldwide during her 18-year career. The reason? Just like Tim McGraw, Hank Williams III, Clay Walker, Lyle Lovett, and LeAnn Rimes to name a few, Jo Dee Messina is fed up with Curb refusing to release her music.

Clay Walker, Connie Britton, Curb Records, Hank Williams Jr., Hank3, Jo Dee Messina, LeAnn Rimes, Lyle Lovett, Marshall Evans, Mike Curb, Rayna Jaymes, Tim McGraw

December 8, 2012

Peewee Moore is “Making Sure The Story’s Being Told”

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These honky tonk albums are hard ones to make in 2012. Everyone else in country is trying to carve their niche, bending and blending genres and doing any manner of outlandish things to get folks to pay attention to them in a glutted music world. Meanwhile the charge of the honky tonk musician is to keep the traditions alive through purity.

Dale Watson, Husky Burnette, Jim Stringer, Making Sure The Story's Being Told, Peewee Moore, Roger Alan Wade, Roger Wallace, The Carper Family

December 6, 2012

Album Review – Rachel Brooke’s “A Killer’s Dream”

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Rachel Brooke is one of the few select artist with enough mustard to rise out of the ashes of the country music underground and become a force in the greater roots world. Like an early Emmylou Harris, the music industry should be shuttling her across the country to lend her singular vocal texture to other projects in between putting out excellent solo albums that time finds hard to forget.

A Killer's Dream, blues, Emmylou Harris, Fats Domino, Hank Williams, Jayke Orvis, Jimmie Rodgers, Lonesome Wyatt, Rachel Brooke, Those Poor bastards, Viva Le Vox

December 5, 2012

2012 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees

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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 that have the most impact. They’re songs that make you change the way you see the world, or change the way you see yourself. It is reserved for those few compositions that have the ability to change lives and to change the world.

Bigsky/Flatland, Billy Don BUrns, Chris Knight, Corb Lund, Drinking Whiskey, Eric Strickland, Good Lord Lorrie, Justin Twones Earle, Kacey Musgraves, Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean, Man In Gray, McDougall, Merry Go Round, New Year's Eve At The Gates Of Hell, Olds Sleeper, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sara Watkins, Shooter Jennings, Song of the Year, Stranger, Sturgill Simpson, T Junior, Tom VandenAvond, Turnpike Troubadours, Unfortunately Anna, Wreck of a Fine Man

December 4, 2012

Defiant Images of Country Music Dissent

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The fight for the purity of country music is almost as old as the genre itself. The conflict between pop and traditionalism, and the fight for creative control for artists runs like a thread throughout country music’s history, defining it as much as the twang of a Telecaster, or the moan of a steel guitar. Here are some of the most iconic images of country music revolution, and the stories behind them.

Andy Gibson, Bill Monroe, Billy Joe Shaver, Buck Owens, burning envelope, Charlie Rich, Dripping Springs Reunion, Earl Scruggs, flipping the bird, Hank3, Hillbilly Central, Joe Buck, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, middle finger, Reinstate Hank, Roger Miller, The Grand Ole Opry, Tompall Glaser, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

December 3, 2012

2012 Saving Country Music Album of the Year Nominees

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2012 was a bumper crop year for great albums in the greater country music world, and that necessitates a bolstered lineup of candidates for Saving Country Music’s coveted Album of the Year. 7 total made the list, with others admittedly getting completely screwed by their absence. I already have a bead of sweat forming across my brow brought on by the impossible decision of who I’m supposed to pick off this list.

100 Proof, Bloody Jug Band, Cabin Fever, Calamity Cubes, Cigarettes & Truckstops, Coffin Up Blood, Corb Lund, Eric Strickland, Goodbye Normal Street, Honky Tonk Till I Die, James Hand, Justin Townes Earle, Kellie Pickler, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Lindi Ortega, Mighty Lonesome Man, New Year's Poem, Olds Sleeper, Rachel Brooke, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Turnpike Troubadours

December 3, 2012

Once And For All, Does Taylor Swift Use Auto-Tune?

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Over the years, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a topic more beset with assumption, conjecture, and sometimes, idiocracy. Whether Taylor Swift uses Auto-Tune in either the live or recorded formats is not an opinion. Either she does, or she doesn’t, and the evidence we have to make those conclusions in many cases is obvious.

Auto Tune, autotune, Bob Lefsetz, Scott Borchetta, Taylor Swift

December 2, 2012

Don Maddox to be Recognized on His 90th Birthday By Hometown

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Don Maddox, the last surviving member of the wildly-influential Maddox Brothers & Rose, will be recognized in his hometown of Ashland, Oregon for his 90th birthday at the Don Maddox Birthday Celebration on Saturday, December 8th. The Maddox Brothers & Rose are one of the most influential bands in the history of American music. They played shows with folks as far ranging as Ernest Tubb and Elvis Presley.

Country Music Hall of Fame, Don Maddox, Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Maddox Brothers & Rose, Marty Stuart, Marty Stuart Show, Merle Haggard, Muddy Roots Festival, Oregon Old Time Fiddlers, Sage Meadowsn, Siskiyou Summit, The Grand Ole Opry

November 29, 2012

Ray Wylie Hubbard Writing & Recording w/ Ronnie Dunn

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Ray Wylie Hubbard and Ronnie Dunn wrote some songs together back in September, and has been in Austin where for the last few days, they’ve been recording with an all-star band of George Reiff, Rick Richards, Ian McLagan from Faces, Brad Rice formerly of Son Volt, and others. “Started recording in Austin yesterday,” Ronnie Dunn posted on Facebook.

Brad Rice, Faces, George Reiff, Ian McLagan, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Recording, Rick Richards, Ronnie Dunn, Son Volt, writing

November 28, 2012

Blues Review – Alive at the Deep Blues Fest

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Alive at the Deep Blues Fest is a full tilt listening experience. No tired, dragging renditions of “Mustang Sally” to be found here. Instead what you have is the raw, uncapped energy of true blues revitalization channeled through some of the strongest talent the roots world boasts. Deep Blues partnered with Alive Naturalsound Records to record the concert and showcase artists on Alive’s roster in a live context.

Alive Records, Brian Olive, Deep Blues Fest, Henry's Funeral Shoe, John The Conqueror, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Left Lane Cruiser, Mark "Porkchop" Holder, Radio Moscow, The Buffalo Killers

November 27, 2012

Hellbound Glory to Tour w/ Kid Rock on “Rebel Soul” Tour

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Reno, Nevada’s Hellbound Glory with be touring with Kid Rock on his “Rebel Soul” tour to transpire at the very start of 2013, trekking through the Midwest and South. Leroy Virgil, the frontman of Hellbound Glory is one of country music’s best kept secrets in regards to songwriting. The band first rubbed elbows with Kid Rock on his “Chillin The Most” cruise down in Florida last March.

Hellbound Glory, Kid Rock, Leroy Virgil, Tour

November 27, 2012

Why Underground Country Music Is Dying (A Treatise)

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I have been struggling to write this article for almost two years, but have been putting it off because there’s some hard things to say, and I didn’t want to “talk down” a movement that was already trying to deal with pretty alarming trends. But I think that especially now, zooming out and trying to be honest and critical in a constructive way is important, because there is positively no doubt that underground country is dying.

.357 String Band, Bob Wayne, Dale Watson, Hank3, Hellbound Glory, Larry & His Flask, Leroy Virgil, Muddy Roots, Pickathon, Rachel Brooke, Reinstate Hank, Reverend Horton Heat, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Shooter Jennings, Sturgill Simpson, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, The Goddamn Gallows, Those Poor bastards, Underground country, unknown hinson

November 26, 2012

What Happened to Respecting Women in Country Music?

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Somewhere in the last year or so, country music crossed that line from being the last bastion for respect of beautiful women in American popular culture, to hanging out in the gutter with the rest of the vermin, making videos of venereal-infused floozies dry humping flashy vehicles in the classic vein of tasteless, materialistic, shallow-minded rap imagery.

Bucky Covington, Country Girl (Shake It For Me), Dolly Parton, Drinking Side of Country, Dustin Lynch, Loretta Lynn, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Patsy Cline, She Cranks My Tractor, Shooter Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Taylor Swift, The Carter Family

November 22, 2012

Country Music Black Friday / Holiday Buying Field Guide

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If a song can change a life and music can change the world, I can’t think of a better gift to give your friends and family for Christmas than music. So Saving Country Music has been feverishly working our little fingers off frantically compiling all the great Black Friday / Cyber Saturday / Holiday Season deals on music and merch right here in one place.

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November 21, 2012

Reasons To Be Thankful For ABC’s “Nashville”

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So what positives could come from the show? If you take away all the drama between the characters that’s really the central focus of the series, what you have is the biggest inside look into the business of country music ever released to the public through popular media and a vehicle for presenting new music to millions of folks. The ugly trappings of Nashville go with out saying. Here are some of the positives.

ABC TV, Country Music Hall of Fame, Del McCoury, Lindi Ortega, Nashville, Ryman Auditorium, Sam Bush, Shovels and Rope, T Bone Burnett, Tammy Wynette

November 20, 2012

Thomas Rhett’s “Beer With Jesus” Proves Nothing’s Sacred

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Jesus may have turned the other cheek, but he also overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple where they didn’t belong. Just like the Romans of biblical times, these pop country fart tards are foreign occupiers who need to get the hell out of country. I don’t pretend to know what Jesus would do, but if I were him, I’d shove my sandal straight up Thomas Rhett’s ass and tell him he could keep his Michelob Ultra.

Beer With Jesus, Big Machine Records, Brantley Gilbert, Martina McBride, Review, Scott Borchetta, Thomas Rhett, Toby Keith

November 20, 2012

Review – The Deep Dark Woods “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me”

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They’re like a perfect recipe that includes all of your favorite ingredients, though you can’t taste any of them individually in the end result because they’re blended and mixed so well. Gothic, poetic Americana, Gospel, and strait-laced country elements, they are all interlaced harmoniously with a broody pall cast over everything for a cohesive sound and an immersing experience.

Dave Van Ronk, Hang Me Oh Hang Me, Pickathon, Ryan Boldt, The Deep Dark Woods

November 19, 2012

College Students Shocked Pot Icon Willie Nelson Plays Music

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Willie Nelson just released his latest memoir Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die, and many college students that grew up in an era when Willie’s songs were virtually nowhere to be found on the radio, are shocked to read that Willie Nelson is a musician, and an influential one at that. To them he’s known as one of America’s most notorious pot heads.

fake news, marijuana, pot, Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson

November 17, 2012

Justin Townes Earle Let’s Wanda Be Wanda in “Unfinished Business”

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Her immeasurable influence spanning country, rockabilly, and rock and roll is undeniable. As far as I’m concerned, Wanda Jackson has no “unfinished business” to attend to. She’s given her heart and soul to the music, and the music is better off because of it. She’s got nothing to prove, but she proves it anyway in Unfinished Business. And so does producer Justin Townes Earle.

Greg Garing, Jack White, Justin Townes Earle, Loretta Lynn, The Rolling Stones, Unfinished Business, Wanda Jackson

November 16, 2012

Rachel Brooke “The Black Bird” Premier from “A Killer’s Dream”

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The Queen of Underground Country, the lovely and talented Rachel Brooke will be releasing her new album A Killer’s Dream on December 4th, featuring Florida’s Viva Le Vox as her backing band, and a duet with Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards. This will be her 3rd full-length album. Watch the world premier video for the song “The Black Bird”.

A Killer's Dream, Joe Buck, Lonesome Wyatt, order, Rachel Brooke, release, The Black Bird, Those Poor bastards, Tour, video, Viva Le Vox

November 14, 2012

Hank3 Complete Concert DVD to Benefit Happy Tails Humane

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On Friday August 3rd, 2012, Hank Williams III played a benefit concert for Happy Tails Humane, and Skeleton Crue had a complete film crew on site for the event, and now has put together a DVD of the complete concert that folks can purchase, with the proceeds going to Happy Tails. The event rose a whopping $18,000 for the middle Tennessee no-kill shelter.

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November 14, 2012

Florida Georgia Line’s Song “Cruise” (A Rant)

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The Country Music Anti-Christ Scott Borchetta has decided to unleash a new wave of pestilence on the human eardrum, this time in the form of the glorified boy band Florida Georgia Line; a horrible combination of Rascal Flatts pretty boy hyper-pop, and designer jeans Jason Aldean “backroad” laundry list bullshit. They are everything bad about quotation mark “country” in 2012.

Big Machine Records, Brian Kelley, Cruise, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Mike Curb, Rascal Flatts, Scott Borchetta, song review, Tyler Hubbard

November 13, 2012

Album Review – Cody Canada & The Departed “Adventus”

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Well this was not what I was expecting. When comparing Adventus to the first Departed album This Is Indian Land, this album symbolizes a dramatic, wholesale shift to the rock world. In fact if there’s any other genres mixed in here, they would be blues, and especially funk. Adventus is much more Red Hot Chili Peppers than it is Red Dirt. At least in sonic style.

Adventus, Cody Canada, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Led Zepplin, Red Dirt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seth James, The Departed, This Is Indian Land, William Elliott Whitmore

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