Zach Bryan has announced the release date for his upcoming album called With Heaven On Top, and some are wondering why they’re having to wait until 2026 to hear it.
Jamey Johnson reveals just how much new music he has saved up, including a song about him written by another big artist, his feelings on today’s country, as well as his affinity for Zach Top.
If you’re a fan of great music, you’ve probably been perpetually frustrated how it seems like the best songs, and the best songwriters of our time slide scandalously under-the-radar.
The punishment certainly doesn’t follow the tenets of Hammurabi’s Code. But in this instance, it might have been the most prudent, and legally sound course of action.
When you think of Jimmy Swaggart, you might not think of music, or country music specifically. But there is a reason that in 1982 Newsweek dubbed Swaggart the “King of Honky Tonk Heaven.”
The interview resulted in some great revelations about Charley Crockett, answered some major criticisms that comes up regularly about him, and generally speaking, portrayed Charley as a knowledgeable guy.
Fundamentally, is Gavin Adcock correct when he says Beyoncé’s album ‘Cowboy Carter’ isn’t country?Absolutely he is.Is Gavin Adcock the guy we want carrying water for country music? Absolutely not.
With lead guitar player Luke Black and mandolin player Drury Anderson graduating from the Berklee College of Music in May, this summer has become the moment for Mountain Grass Unit to take the full-time plunge.
To the unknowing mind, The Kentucky Headhunters name itself might conjure up a slightly negative stereotype of some dangerous backwoods fugitives who would behead outsiders. However, the reality is the complete opposite.
There’s a new television/competition series coming this fall to CBS, and it has some really cool, and really uncool folks involved in the production, as well as some exciting names participating in the competition itself.
With the way country music so summarily casts many of its legends to the side, it can be easy to forget about the legacy of someone like Ronnie McDowell, even if you’d never forget his hit songs.
Now we get yet another new version of The Band Perry, and even more bleached hair in the form of some new guy who looks like Uncle Joey from the ’90s version of Full House.
It’s almost like the entire music industry has memory holed Oliver Anthony. It was just two short years ago that he took a video of him hollering out in the woods all the way to #1 in all of music.
The entirety of the music world mourns whenever a titan at the level of original Beach Boys member and musical mastermind Brian Wilson makes their exit from the mortal coil, leaving behind a planet that feels a bit more cold.
Megyn Kelly. Babe. Take the win. What are you doing acting like an aggrieved party here? Beyoncé’s calling you out on the big video boards of her current world tour? Well congratulations then. It’s free promotion.
Molly Tuttle will no longer be a bluegrass performer, at least not for this next season of her career. Her new album called “So Long Little Miss Sunshine” is being sold as a departure from her bluegrass past.
In the teleprompter copy that Megan Moroney read, she also said “…and this award went to The Carter Family, who basically invented country music.” This inspired a side-eyed look from Shaboozey.
It’s not necessarily the music of Gavin Adcock that has become so predictable that it veers into the realm of cliché. It’s his behavioral pattern that we have seen play out in music ad nauseum.
It remains an unfortunate aspect of the modern media landscape that whenever higher institutions broach the subject of country music, it’s commonly done by someone uniquely unqualified to speak on the matter.
Recently, it was announced that Lost Highway was being recommissioned, and even more recently that Kacey Musgraves was named the label’s new flagship artist. She even released her version of “Lost Highway.”
So once again we find ourselves in a situation where the public is being asked to judge the personal character of Zach Bryan. But it feels like there is a lot of nuance, and a lot of context missing
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.
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.
It truly is a shame that it appears we have to bid adieu to Jon Pardi as a country music traditionalist, and one that was embedded in the mainstream no less, giving him a unique opportunity to change the music for the better.