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June 22, 2025

Southern Rock Supergroup Toy Factory Project Debuts at Telluride

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Nobody panic. Try to look cool. But what happened in Telluride, Colorado Saturday night (6-21) on the legendary stage in Telluride might be one of the greatest things to happen in Southern rock in the last 25 years.

June 16, 2022

New Grammy Americana Award Only Partially Solves Problem

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The new award will give one more opportunity for Americana artists (and some country artists by proxy) to be nominated and win in what has become one of the most crowded categories in all of the Grammy Awards. But the problem remains that anything can be called Americana.

June 15, 2022

Country Guitarist Jay Lawless Brutally Beaten in Attack

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Southern California-based country guitar player and teacher Jay Lawless was brutally beaten by unknown assailants and for unknown reasons in the Orange County city of Westminster near his home. Assaulted to within an inch of his life and left for dead, it has put Lawless in an ICU.

June 14, 2022

Trampled By Turtles Announce New Album “Alpenglow”

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Call them bluegrass. Call them folk or Americana. Call them whatever you want, but when Trampled By Turtles take the stage, something magical happens that’s hard to quantify. They grab your attention with amazing instrumentation normally only reserved for bluegrass.

June 14, 2022

Charley Crockett Adds to Already Busy 2022 Tour Schedule

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Reigning Saving Country Music Artist of the Year Charley Crockett doesn’t need to prove anything to anybody at this point in his career. But despite his recent and continued success, Crockett remains the hardest-working, and hungriest performer out there.

June 13, 2022

The Prospects of Linda Ronstadt & Freddy Fender for Country Hall of Fame

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A recent petition launched to coincide with Freddy Fender’s birthday, and subsequent media reporting, has stimulated a healthy amount of discussion about the prospects for Freddy Fender being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

June 13, 2022

Album Review- Matt Daniel’s “All I’ll Ever Need”

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Matt Daniel immediately appeals to your country bone with a great country voice. And like the Turnpike Troubadours, it’s a traditional country sound with fiddle and steel, but with just a dash of rock and roll energy and swagger to give it a bit more immediacy.

June 12, 2022

Chris Stapleton, Justin Timberlake Re-Create Historic Country Moment

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If you asked me point blank what the single most important moment in country music over the last ten years has been, without any hesitation, I would answer conclusively that it was Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performing “Tennessee Whiskey” at the CMA Awards.

June 12, 2022

Country Legends Don Schlitz, Charlie McCoy Invited to Grand Ole Opry

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Well, we certainly didn’t see this coming, but it’s very hard to argue with. In the midst of the Grand Ole Opry’s ongoing effort to finally induct worthy artists as official members after having been passed over for many years, Charlie McCoy and Don Schlitz have both been invited.

June 11, 2022

Drake Milligan Might Finally Be Finding His Moment

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Drake Milligan has got the “it” factor that so many otherwise excellent singers are missing. What is “it”? It’s a combination of things that go well beyond talent: originality, intrigue, unique appeal, and very often, fortuitous timing.

June 10, 2022

Album Review – American Aquarium’s “Chicamacomico”

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Maintaining a blue collar edge to the music, and a firm grasp on the perspectives and struggles of common people is how BJ Barham has kept American Aquarium credible and current for going on 17 years now. The content and style of the songs may shift slightly…

June 9, 2022

Video Channel ‘Western AF’ Is Helping Fuel the Western Resurgence

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It’s been a host of video channels that have become significantly instrumental in helping to launch and support a throng of now successful artists that in previous eras we’d all assume would be way too niche to find significant support.

June 8, 2022

Mike & The Moonpies to Make Grand Ole Opry Debut

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f there’s any band that is well past due for finally getting theirs, it’s Mike and the Moonpies. And even though we’re well past the era that making your debut on the Grand Ole Opry would guarantee you a powder blue Cadillac and a guitar-shaped swimming pool…

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