Let’s Not Start Celebrating The New Live Nation Ruling Yet
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Is the ruling a victory? Sure it is, and a big one. But we are far away from Live Nation and Ticketmaster being split up, scalpers and bots being brought to heel, and something nearing an equitable ticketing ecosystem.
No Lauren Watkins, the LAST Thing We Need is Bro-Country’s Return
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Lauren Watkins. Girl. Love ya, really do. But this is barking up the wrong tree. About the last thing that planet Earth needs is the return of Bro-Country as a popular music form—and for so many reasons.
The Saving Country Music 2025 Single of the Year
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With Single of the Year, we’re simply looking for the toe tappers and boot scooters—the songs that unlock the joy in music. That doesn’t mean that a Single of the Year cannot be meaningful or momentous though.
Billboard Must Address AI on the Charts NOW
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Afraid of “gatekeeping” accusations, Billboard seems content with AI encroaching onto its charts without the company in any way addressing it directly at the moment.
50 Years Ago: An Epic Round of Country Songwriters Ensues on Christmas
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Along with Guy Clark and his wife Susanna, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young, Richard Dobson, dobro player Jim McGuire, Billy Callery, and a very young but hungry Steve Earle all sat around the table.
Album Review – Lukas Nelson’s “American Romance (too)”
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There’s one way to remove yourself from the overbearing shadow of a maternal or paternal legacy in music, and quell the criticisms of privilege. You can just be so damn good, you blow past all that banter.
The 2025 Christmas Country Playlist (UPDATED)
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If you’re looking for that perfect Christmas playlist that specializes in country music, and is dedicated to new songs or new versions of old classics released this calendar year, then you’ve come to the right place.
The Saving Country Music 2025 Album of the Year
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After a rigorous nomination and voting process compiling ten select albums and a host of honorable mentions, something nearing a universal consensus has centered around one album in 2025.
Amish Couple Ben & Rose Become One of 2025’s New Breakouts
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One of the biggest breakout performers in country music in 2025 is perhaps one of the most unlikely in the genre’s history. Nobody could have predicted that an Old Order Amish couple could become a viral sensation.
Album Review – Brad Paisley’s “Snow Globe Town”
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It turns out that Brad Paisley has just the right amount of Christmas cheer, classic country nostalgia, sheer talent, and elfish mischief and humor to compose a country Christmas record that’s well above serviceable.
40 Years Ago: Johnny Paycheck Shoots a Man (Maybe Over Turtle Soup)
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Many country music artists have claimed to be “Outlaws” over the years. Only two have produced .22 pistols and shot at people’s heads to prove it: Billy Joe Shaver, and Johnny PayCheck.
Opry’s 100th Anniversary Tribute is Perfect Time to Reinstate Hank
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Hank Williams III founded the The Reinstate Hank movement back in 2003 in an effort to get the Grand Ole Opry to recognize his grandfather who was kicked out for drunkeness and missing rehearsals in 1952.
Clint Black Is Ready To Tell His Story
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The Country Music Hall of Fame and others might be reluctant to tell his story, but Clint Black isn’t. He’s planning to release his memoir, “KILLIN’ TIME: My Life and Music” via Harper Influence.