Let’s Not Start Celebrating The New Live Nation Ruling Yet
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Is the ruling a victory? Sure it is, and a big one. But we are far away from Live Nation and Ticketmaster being split up, scalpers and bots being brought to heel, and something nearing an equitable ticketing ecosystem.
We Need To Talk About These 2024 ACM Awards Nominations
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Every year as the nominations for country music awards come and go, it’s hard to not fall into a perfunctory attitude about them due to the cyclical and predictable nature of the nominees.
George Strait Set To Break Yet Another Record
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Earlier this year, Strait announced his only concert in Texas in 2024, called The King at Kyle Field. He’ll take the field in College Station at the home of the Texas Aggies football team on June 15th with Parker McCollum.
Jason Isbell Criticized by Justin Townes Earle’s Widow for Song
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Ever since the release of Jason Isbell’s Grammy award-winning 2023 album Weathervanes, there have been concerns swirling around the song “When We Were Close” that was written as a de facto “tribute” to Justin Townes Earle.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#138)
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Imagine taking to the internet to complain how bad country music is today when we have such an embarrassment of riches from the independent side of country music sitting right under our noses.
Waylon Grandson Whey Jennings Readies Debut Album
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It’s not that Whey Jennings is the new kid on the block. Those who follow the Waylon Jennings clan or Outlaw country have likely seen his name around since he first emerged singing songs in 2012.
Album Review – Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – “Revelations”
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‘Revelations’ by Sarah Shook and the Disarmers will wrap you in the warm embrace of electric and angry underground country, while also serving it up through curiously infectious melodic prowess.
Jesse Daniel Adds Dates to Anticipated 2024 Tour
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Tired of the daily grind? Worried about the future of country music? Need a honky tonk revitalization? Then there is just about nothing better to get your mind right than seeing Jesse Daniel out on tour.
Album Review – Kacey Musgraves – “Deeper Well”
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“Deeper Well” might have a few more memorable songs and mark a return to a more organic sound for Musgraves, but that “something’s missing” feeling persists. It seems to be marked by boredom.
CMT Awards Overlook Roger Clemens, Mindy McCready Affair
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On the 2024 CMT Awards Sunday evening (4-7), long time Toby Keith friend and Major League Baseball pitching legend Roger Clemens came out to start off a musical tribute to Toby Keith who passed away in February.
49 Winchester Announces New Album “Leavin’ This Holler”
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It’s from the hills and hollers of Appalachia that country music first came into being. And it’s from those same hills and hollers where a new generation of artists have risen to save country music in the modern era.
On Morgan Wallen’s Latest Arrest (The Chair Incident)
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Once again, Morgan Wallen has made an embarrassment of himself. And once again, it’s an embarrassment that unfortunately country music has to answer for since Wallen continues to crown the genre.
Beyoncé: “This Ain’t a Country Album.” Billboard: “Yes It Is.”
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Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is officially the #1 album on the Billboard Country Albums chart. This is despite Beyoncé explicitly stating in a March 19th statement, “This ain’t a Country album,” and later underscoring this statement.