Texas Artist Tanner Usrey Arrested for DWI, Felony Possession
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Texas music, Southern rock, and country artist Tanner Usrey was arrested recently in Collin County, TX, and charged with Driving While Intoxicated (called DWI in Texas), and two drug possession charges.
Big Ponderoo: The Small Festival with Big Importance
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For the nonprofit and mostly volunteer-driven SFF Presents, the encroachment and dominance of musical juggernaut Live Nation is not just a hypothetical. The organization is on the front lines of supporting music on a local level.
Tyler Childers-Led Healing Appalachia Sets 2024 Lineup
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Healing Appalachia isn’t just a 3-day concert with a killer lineup, it is a concert for a cause. It’ll be holding its 2024 festivities once again at the State Fair of West Virginia grounds in Lewisburg on September 19-21.
An Ode to Raul Malo of The Mavericks
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Even before he recently announced a diagnosis with what we all hope is a treatable form of Cancer, anyone who asked me to name the best singer of this generation would receive the answer “Raul Malo” back without hesitation.
Big Moments, Cool Collaborations Mark the 2024 Jackalope Jamboree
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In 2024, the Jackalope Jamboree (June 27-29) still had some of the topmost names in independent country like Charley Crockett, Kaitlin Butts, and Silverada. It had legends of Red Dirt like Jason Boland, and The Randy Rogers Band.
Album Review – Kaitlin Butts – “Roadrunner!”
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Uninterested in taking a conventional approach to making an album, rising country star Kaitlin Butts finds inspiration in the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage production about her native state of Oklahoma.
George Strait to Get Hollywood Star, Along with … Keith Urban?!?
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If you want to get Keith Urban on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wait until a year after Strait gets his or something. The organizers of this make it seem like Strait and Urban are equals. It just sort of cheapens the whole thing.
Alan Jackson The SONGWRITER to be Honored
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These days we’re used to songwriting by committee, especially from most mainstream major label country stars. But even in Alan Jackson’s most productive era, an artist writing most of their own songs like Alan was rare.
Silverada Slays Jackalope Jamboree to Celebrate Album Release
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Seven minutes after their new self-titled album hit streaming services at midnight Eastern, 9:00 p.m. Pacific, the greatest live country band in the world took the stage at the Jackalope Jamboree in Pendleton, Oregon.
Album Review – Silverada (Self-Titled)
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Mike and the Moonpies? Silverada? The only names you really need to know are Mike Harmeier, Omar Oyoque, Catlin Rutherford, Zachary Moulton, and Taylor Englert. If they’re involved, it’s probably tits.
Kinky Friedman: Iconoclast That Made The Right Kind of Trouble (RIP)
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As a musician, songwriter, iconoclast, poet, writer, politician, and cigar connoisseur, Kinky Friedman couldn’t help but pursue his passions no matter where they took him, and to stir the good kind of trouble whenever he got there.
Officially Declaring June 28th, 2024 a Country Music Holiday
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Ladies and gentlemen, by the power vested in me by the founding documents of Saving Country Music, I hereby decree that Friday, June 28th, 2024 is an official country music holiday, with all the rights and privileges thereof.
CMT & MTV’s Eradication of Editorial Content is a Catastrophe
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It’s not just that the company has laid off all its journalists and editors. It’s that the work of scores of writers over many years—tens of thousands of articles in total—are now gone, and unlikely to return.