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July 18, 2025

Oh Great. Yet Another Zac Brown Band “Reinvention”

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The Band Perry, eat your heart out. If there’s any band that can best all comers with with their constant “reinventions,” dramatically over-promising and spectacularly under-delivering, it’s the Zac Brown Band.

August 22, 2022

Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Crickets Drummer Jerry Allison Dies

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Sometimes when you ponder upon a life lived, you can’t help but marvel at all the events seen, the accomplishments achieved, and the history experienced by someone’s eyes and ears. Such is the case for Jerry Ivan Allison, known as JI by many close friends, family, and band mates.

August 22, 2022

Amazon’s ‘For Love & Country’ Film Erases Critical Black Legacies

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Though the film means well, and is generally well-made with superb cinematography and high production value, the approach and information conveyed in the film is problematic to say the least, actively participating in erasing the legacy of Black country artists in a film that purports to be championing them.

August 22, 2022

Review – Wade Bowen’s “Somewhere Between the Secret & the Truth”

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Combining songs of heartbreak with a little extra steel guitar on this one, it makes Somewhere Between The Secret and the Truth just as much “country music” as it is “Texas music,” while not forgoing the type of songs that are easy to love, and have earned Wade Bowen a wide and omnivorous audience.

August 21, 2022

Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#106)

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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist is built to keep you informed on all the best songs and albums coming out right here, right now in country and roots music. It’s available on most all streaming formats, or you can just use the song, artist, and album recommendations.

August 20, 2022

Willie Nelson Was Gravely Ill with Covid, House Turned into Hospital

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On May 7th, the Willie Nelson camp announced they were cancelling his headlining set at the annual New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday May 8th along with other shows “due to a positive Covid case in the Willie Nelson Family band,” leaving just who had tested positive ambiguous.

August 19, 2022

Hellbound Glory Announces New Album, “Nobody Knows You”

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Before the collective country music population was losing their minds over independent country revolutionaries such as Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, and Zach Bryan, it was Leroy Virgil of Hellbound Glory that was reading the mainstream their rights, and releasing one insanely good country song after another.

August 19, 2022

Blake Shelton is All Mullet, Little 90s on “No Body”

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So now here comes Blake Shelton with a photoshopped mullet, releasing what he’s marketing as a 90s-style country single called “No Body.” But unlike some of these other artists professing their proficiency with 90s country, ol’ Blake Shelton was actually around and playing music at the tail end of the era.

August 18, 2022

Album Review – Alex Key’s “Neon Signs and Stained Glass”

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Alex Key is a staunchly traditional country artist who’s been flying scandalously under the radar, while at the same time assembling a rather strong fan base from those thirsty for country music that actually sounds like country. ‘Neon Signs and Stained Glass’ is most certainly worthy of your consideration.

August 18, 2022

Adam Hood Enlists Brent Cobb, Blackberry Smoke for New Album

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this is like getting a new Adam Hood album, and Adam Hood/Brent Cobb collaborative album, and a Blackberry Smoke side project all rolled up into one. Many people in the Adam Hood orbit who respect the songwriting of the Opelika, Alabama native answered the call to make ‘Bad Better Days’ a career effort.

August 17, 2022

Texas/Red Dirt Makes Moves on Mainstream Country Radio

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When Jamey Johnson stood on the stage Friday, August 12th in Lincoln, Nebraska, and barked profanities at the local radio station KX 96.9, he wasn’t just angry they had used “his” stage to promote their station, he was venting the pent up frustration many independent, Red Dirt, and Texas music artists feel.

August 16, 2022

Billy Joe Shaver Tribute Album Announced Amid Estate Dispute

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August 16th, 2022 would have been Billy Joe Shaver’s 83rd birthday, but unfortunately, he passed away on October 28th, 2020 at the age of 81, leaving a legacy of songwriting that set the very foundation for Outlaw country music that is still just as influential and resonant today.

August 16, 2022

Brit Turner—Heartbeat of Blackberry Smoke—Has Heart Attack

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Sad and scary news out of the Blackberry Smoke camp as word has come down that the long-time drummer for the band, Brit Turner, suffered a serious heart attack on Sunday, August 14th while at his home in Atlanta. Luckily, Turner was able to make it to the hospital on time, where he received a stent.

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