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July 1, 2025

The Apostols’ Family: The Billy Strings Moment in Lexington

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By now, the story of what William Apostol, better known as Billy Strings, was going through last Friday night (6-20) as he walked onto the stage in Lexington, Kentucky’s Rupp Arena is well-known.

April 3, 2022

Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#99)

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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. Available on most all streaming formats, or you can use the song recommendations to find something new.

April 2, 2022

Country Trucker Titan C.W. McCall (Bill Fries) Passes Away

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Country Trucker Titan C.W. McCall (Bill Fries) Passes Away

Call him one of the overlords of country trucker songs, but don’t call him a one hit wonder. His name was William Dale Fries Jr., but the world knew him as C.W. McCall, and knew of him through his iconic country trucker epic “Convoy.”

April 1, 2022

Legendary Bluegrass Mandolin Player Roland White Has Died

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There are not many sectors of bluegrass music that weren’t at one point or another touched by the work of mandolin player Roland White. The brother of fellow bluegrass legend and later country rocker Clarence White, an original member of The Kentucky Colonels…

April 1, 2022

Eric Church Plans Free Makeup Show for San Antonio

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Eric Church cancelled his sold-out show at San Antonio’s AT&T Center for Saturday, April 2nd earlier this week so he could personally attend the Duke Blue Devils taking on Church’s North Carolina Tar Heels in the NCAA Basketball Final Four game on the same day.

April 1, 2022

Billy Strings & Bluegrass Poised for a Big 2022 Grammy Awards

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Unlike country music’s big award shows like the CMAs and ACMs, The Grammys actually take the time to recognize artists in the bluegrass, Americana, folk, and blues realms, along with pulling from a more expanded list of nominees in the country categories.

March 31, 2022

Lyle Lovett Prepares First Album in 10 Years, “12th of June”

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It was 10 years ago last month that Lyle Lovett finally emerged out from under the oppressive thumb of Curb Records who’d he’d labored under for the duration of his career, and finally fulfilled his contract with in the 2012 album “Release Me.”

March 31, 2022

Album Review – Alma Russ’s “Fool’s Gold”

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Alma Russ has the stuff to be considered a serious contributor to the country music roots resurgence emanating from Appalachia and elsewhere, and ‘Fool’s Gold’ is fair to characterize as one of the best albums to be released in 2022 so far.

March 30, 2022

Zach Bryan Readies 34-Song Album, “American Heartbreak”

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Apparently when Zach Bryan started recording for this album, he couldn’t stop. Not too surprising since during his short career that started with 2019’s “DeAnn,” the former Navy enlistee has been insanely prolific, along with impactful on his wildly fervent fans.

March 30, 2022

Brantley Gilbert’s “Rolex® On A Redneck” w/ Jason Aldean (A Rant)

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Larping as a ode to hard working rural folks, “Rolex® On A Redneck” is really just a laundry list of product endorsements from Gilbert for stuff actual farmers would never be caught dead with. Dusty Bumpkins on a sorghum patch outside of OshKosh isn’t sporting a Rolex.

March 29, 2022

On Eric Church Canceling Concert to Attend NCAA Basketball Game

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In an unprecedented move—and from a guy who is otherwise known for hard touring, electrifying performances, and taking care of his fans above everything else—Eric Church has chosen to cancel a show scheduled for April 2nd to attend a basketball game.

March 29, 2022

Last Country Radio Station in San Francisco Area Sold, to Sign Off

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Another major market in the United States will no longer have a major country music radio station. New York City lost its final station in October of 2021 when WNSH 94.7 Nash FM switched formats. Now the San Jose-based Country 95.3 KRTY has been sold.

March 29, 2022

Album Review – Ian Noe’s “River Fools & Mountain Saints”

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Ian Noe is a master craftsman of character and setting, manifesting men and women that feel as real as rain in the mind’s eye, and casting them in scenarios that make you materially and emotionally invested in them, all within a three minute interval.

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