Big Hat Spirits: The New Texas Beverage Supporting Music in a Big Way
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Big Hat has dovetailed their mission with helping to spread the word about independent music native to Texas, doing what they can to support songwriters and performers through their growing platform.
Miranda Lambert, Ronnie Dunn Help Induct Texas 2024 Songwriters
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In Texas, songwriting is a different animal from what it is in Nashville, Los Angeles, or other places. Instead of trying to make hits, they’re trying to stand on the shoulders of the greats that came before them.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#135)
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You better hope you’ve taken your anti-depressants recently, because the newest additions to the Top 25 playlist with take you to the deepest recesses of human emotion like only the best country music can.
20 Years Ago: Old Crow Medicine Show Releases Landmark “O.C.M.S.”
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Over the last 20 years, there are a few specific albums you can select out of the crowd and give credit for critically reshaping country music into what it is today, and specifically for re-instituting the roots of country.
Album Review – Corb Lund’s “El Viejo”
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“El Viejo” doesn’t just add to Corb Lund’s musical legacy. In many ways, it closes a circle and begins a new era. He may not be “viejo” himself, but they grey hairs are moving in, and he’s now the one many Western singers look up to.
Kimmi Bitter to Keep It “Old School” for New Album
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She’s the closest thing our generation has to Patsy Cline, but she also has a style all her own. She’s the perfect combination of the familiar and original. The future of country music is classic, and the future of classic country is Kimmi Bitter.
Why Beyoncé’s #1 in Country Doesn’t Really Matter
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As you can imagine, the news of the #1 has been met with with praise for Beyoncé breaking down barriers and shattering glass ceilings in country. But this is more about a megastar worth $800 million cutting in line.
On This Day: Hank Jr. & The Simpsons Team for Hilarious “Canyonero” Jingle
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It’s rare that a fake commercial in a cartoon becomes so iconic that it embeds itself into popular culture, but that’s what happened when Hank Williams Jr. teamed up with long-running animated series “The Simpsons.”
Ameripolitan Comes Into Its Own in 2024, Offers a Better Way Forward
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In 2024, everything that Dale Watson must have dreamed up as his ideal fantasy of what the Ameripolitan Awards could become was finally realized when it returned to Austin where it was originally held.
After Years of Dues Paid, T. Graham Brown Invited as Opry Member
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T. Graham Brown is one of the numerous country music legends who’s performed on the Grand Ole Opry hundreds of times in his career, but for whatever reason has always evaded a formal invitation as a member.
Wyatt Flores Cancellations Underscore Importance of Centering Mental Health
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On Monday, February 19th, Wyatt Flores announced that he would be cancelling his upcoming show in Oxford, Ohio. Other upcoming shows in Detroit and Toronto will also be rescheduled to a later date.
Stars Turning Out for Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction
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The Texas Heritage Songwriters Association is set to honor its new slate Hall of Fame inductees on February 24th at the Moody Theater in Austin, TX: Jack Ingram, Jon Randall, Ruthie Foster, Terry McBride, and Eric Johnson.
Kaitlin Butts Gives Landmark Speech After 2024 Ameripolitan Award Win
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The moment perhaps most people were talking about when they were filing out of the venue, hanging out at an afterparty, or waking up the next morning, is the speech that Kaitlin Butts gave after winning.