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June 11, 2025

Laci Kaye Booth’s “George F****** Strait” is No F****** Good

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Similar to all the Bro-Country songs that name drop “Cash” and “Hank” yet take no the teachings or sonic inspirations from these titans, this Laci Kaye Booth song is more insult than tribute.

January 21, 2022

Ray Wylie Hubbard Calls Upon More Friends in ‘Co-Starring Too’

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Well if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it. And with the extended Rolodex of influences and acolytes Ray Wylie Hubbard has assembled, why not release a sequel? That’s what Ray Wylie will do on March 18th, 2022 with another list of excellent collaborators.

January 21, 2022

Album Review – The Whitmore Sisters – “Ghost Stories”

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Blood harmonies and sister singers set the very foundation for American roots music, and country music specifically. There’s just something so elemental to the intimacy of this sound that it awakens dormant emotions untouchable by other sonic instruments and musical practices.

January 20, 2022

Molly Tuttle Leans Heavy Into Bluegrass on New Album ‘Crooked Tree’

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“I always knew I wanted to make a bluegrass record someday,” Molly Tuttle says, and so did the rest of us. Yet strangely, it had never come to pass until now. Already considered a titan of the bluegrass discipline as a two-time winner of the IBMA’s Guitarist of the Year…

January 19, 2022

Corb Lund To Toast Peers in New Album “Songs My Friends Wrote”

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Like any true country cowboy troubadour, Canada’s Corb Lund spends his days herding cattle and bucking hay, and then spends his nights scratching out tunes around the kitchen table in dirty Carhartt’s with callused hands.

January 19, 2022

Dolly Parton to Release New Album and Novel “Run, Rose, Run”

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Dolly Parton is celebrating her 76th birthday today, January 19th. And the Country music legend, actor, benefactor, altruist, cultural icon, and queen to many will also soon add novelist to her resume when she releases the novel (and album) “Run, Rose, Run.”

January 18, 2022

Charley Crockett Announces Spring ’22 Tour w/ Vincent Neil Emerson

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Reigning Saving Country Music Artist of the Year Charley Crockett continues to be the hardest working man in country, pumping out records at a two-per-year clip (don’t be surprised if there’s two more in 2022), and he’s just announced a slew of new tour dates.

January 18, 2022

Forgiveness For Me But Not For Thee: On Jason Isbell & George Jones

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Just like so many of the characters in today’s popular music space, Jason Isbell has transformed from one of the most universally-revered independent artists of our time, to being reviled by large swaths of the listening population for his active and often ostentatious displays.

January 17, 2022

Album Review – Matt Maverick’s “American Dream”

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If you’re a true country fan and can appreciate the Tyler Childers and Charles Wesley Godwins of the world that are all the rage at the moment, but really prefer country music that reminds you more of George Strait and Alan Jackson, Matt Maverick will be down your alley.

January 16, 2022

George Jones & Johnny Paycheck Guitarist Gary Adams Dies

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Country Music guitarist great Gary H. Adams died on January 7, 2022. He was 78 years old and had lived a full life as a musician, husband and father. Best known as a founding member of George Jones’s touring band, and also as a member of Johnny Paycheck’s touring band…

January 16, 2022

Country Songwriter Drifting Towards Homelessness Gets Hand Up

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Beginning in the 00’s, songwriting in country music began to change, and by the early 2010’s, the population of country music songwriters had contracted by as much as 90% by some estimates, as the royalties that helped sustain these writers also began to dry up.

January 15, 2022

Remembering Ralph Emery, Country Music’s Preeminent Broadcaster (RIP)

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It was the stars of Nashville and beyond that performed the music that made country music famous. But it was Ralph Emery who served it up all to the public in a way that made made it so easy for everyone to invite it into their homes, and into their hearts.

January 15, 2022

Hailey Whitters Draws From Heartland for Upcoming Album ‘Raised’

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Hailey Whitters is a really important artist to this whole thing. With Americana-level writing chops and a traditional-leaning sound, yet mainstream-level appeal and acceptance, she’s vital to the effort to save country music. She illustrated this with her last album ‘The Dream.’

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