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July 15, 2025

Sierra Ferrell Takes Show to the Street After Fire Scare

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Sierra Ferrell’s career started on the streets as a busker, singing for ragged dollars and spare change. The street is also where she ended up to conclude her performance Monday night.

July 18, 2022

Dale Watson’s Legendary Coin-Encrusted Guitar Stolen

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There’s few more recognizable instruments in independent country music than Dale Watson’s Telecaster-style guitar with the coins encrusted on the face. And in unfortunate news that is all too common these days, it was stolen in Houston, TX, along with Dale’s van.

July 17, 2022

Turnpike Troubadours End Up On Top and Under the Big Sky Fest

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It’s not that the Turnpike Troubadours were just meandering along and mired in obscurity before their hiatus in May of 2019. But clearly the distance and time away made hearts grow fonder, and has acted like a slingshot for this band from Oklahoma.

July 17, 2022

Sierra Ferrell Steals the Show at Under The Big Sky Fest

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Under The Big Sky Fest in Whitefish, Montana this weekend has featured some amazing headliners such as the Turnpike Troubadours, Jamey Johnson, and Lord Huron. But as tends to happen wherever she appears, Sierra Ferrell is the artist many people are buzzing about.

July 16, 2022

New 6-Part, 12-Hour Outlaw Country Documentary On The Way

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A new country music documentary is on the way, courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and executive producer Jessi Colter. Delving deep into the Outlaw era of country music like never before, They Called Us Outlaws will be a six-part series spanning 12 total hours.

July 15, 2022

Album Review – Arlo McKinley’s “This Mess We’re In”

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Unflinchingly offering brutal dispatches from the most downtrodden and desperate moments of life, Arlo McKinley delivers one body blow after another in songs that are brutally articulate about the level of depression and despondency suffered.

July 15, 2022

Album Review – Willi Carlisle’s “Peculiar, Missouri”

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There is a gift here for spinning tales in a way that shepherds one’s perspective away from modern societal decay and rabid mundanity, that speaks to the plight of the downtrodden, and that is unparalleled in brilliance, and distinctly valuable within the music space.

July 14, 2022

Beloved Songwriter Venue JP Hops House Severely Damaged in Fire

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Along with being a favored watering hole for the local community, it has become the home for many if Houston’s songwriters, and for many songwriters traveling through H-town—so much so that the venue also serves as the headquarters for the Houston Songwriters Association.

July 14, 2022

Charley Crockett Changes It Up for New Album “Man From Waco”

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The hardest working man in country music, and the reigning Saving Country Music Artist of the Year is at it again. Just a few months after releasing his latest covers record, ‘Jukebox Charley,’ Charley Crockett has just announced a new original album called ‘The Man from Waco.’

July 13, 2022

On The Frustrations with Tyler Childers’ Output and Appearances

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The bigger issue here is that people just want more Tyler Childers, and you can’t blame them for that. If he was playing two hours sets on his own tour, most everyone would be leaving satisfied. But he’s not, even though it feels like he should be.

July 13, 2022

Officially Declaring July 15th a Country Music Holiday

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By the powers vested in me by the institution of country music, I hereby declare July 15th, in the Year of Our Ford 2022, an official country music holiday due to the incredible volume of important country and roots music releases being debuted on this day.

July 12, 2022

Cody Jinks, Zach Bryan Make Surprising Moves on Country Radio

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Cody Jinks, Zach Bryan Make Surprising Moves on Country Radio

Yes, just a day after Saving Country Music posted a long-winded rant about why trying to court mainstream country radio is a fool’s errand, not one, but two interesting anomalies have popped up on the format that are worth remarking about, and keeping a close eye on.

July 11, 2022

Quit Claiming Mainstream Country Radio is the Only Way to Success

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In 2015, we couldn’t imagine artists not supported by mainstream country radio selling out arenas, and minting multiple Platinum singles without the help of Music Row. Here in 2022, Tyler Childers is considered one of the top artists in the entire country music industry, and now we have Zach Bryan.

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