New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#170)
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If your New Years resolution was to ditch the empty calories of pop country, and start a routine of healthy music chock full of twang, truth, and top quality songwriting, this is a great place to start.
Alan Jackson Raises $2 Million / To Perform on 4th of July
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Alan Jackson’s “Where I Come From” benefit concert for his hometown of Newnan, Georgia held on Saturday, June 26th at the Coweta County Fairgrounds raised an estimated $2 million for disaster relief efforts in the region. On March 26th, 2021, an EF4 tornado ripped through Newnan.
Roy Acuff’s Fiddle Finds Rightful Place Thanks to Vince Gill
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There are some items that are so important, so revered, they shouldn’t be possessed by any individual, but by us all. In country music, this includes a specific set of instruments tied to the music’s history so irrevocably, they comprise the very bedrock of the genre.
Album Review – Flatland Cavalry’s “Welcome to Countryland”
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Welcome to Countryland is a worthy introduction and a resounding pronouncement for an important band coming into their own. It’s a step up, a stepping out, and an effort worthy of the buzz and adulation Flatland has been garnering for five years now. Well-written and executed, heartfelt…
Trace Adkins, Luke Bryan & Pitbull – The Collab Nobody Asked For
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Boy, we thought we’d rounded the corner on terrible Trace Adkins songs just like we’d squashed the pandemic with vaccines, only to have this vomitous monstrosity foisted upon us like a new, virulent COVID strain especially adept at circumventing immunization.
Country Legend, Reckless Kelly Songwriter Pinto Bennett Has Died
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Maybe you’ve heard of him, and maybe you haven’t. But his legacy and influence is intertwined with a lot of the music you most certainly have enjoyed over the years. And now a legacy that started in Idaho and stretched all across the country and world has come to a close.
Country Music’s Most Important & Valuable Artifact (Country History X)
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Arguably the most important artifact in country music—and most certainly the most valuable one—is not an instrument as one might assume. Instead it is a work of art, and one that holds special importance, has an incredible story, and was never officially finished.
Wanda Jackson to Give her “Encore” in New Album
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Keeping with the tradition of working with interesting producers that saw her collaborate with Jack White, and then Justin Townes Earle on her last two records, this time Wanda worked with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna.
Album Review – Gary Allan’s “Ruthless”
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It’s not that ‘Ruthless’ is terrible or anything. And if you’re a hardcore Gary Allan fan—of which there are a few—you will probably find enough to enjoy to think of the effort as satisfactory. Still, ‘Ruthless’ is full of compromises and half measures, and it’s only country in spurts.
Mike and the Moonpies Blaze on New Song “Paycheck to Paycheck”
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Out of nowhere, Mike and the Moonpies have unleashed a new single called “Paycheck to Paycheck,” and hold onto your hats fellas. It finds those boys from Texas in top form, and kicking country music ass as is their predilection, all while paying homage to their blue collar roots
Tyler Childers Wears Shirt of Post Malone Wearing Tyler Childers Shirt
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Now the ball is in Post Malone’s court to wear a bootleg T-shirt of Tyler Childers wearing a Post Malone T-shirt of Post Malone wearing a bootleg Tyler Childers T-shirt, and soon we’ll be starring into infinity like when you stand between two mirrors on opposing walls.
Kane Brown Is Right About the Racial Tokenism in Country
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So often identity-based media coverage and awards are not about the artists themselves. These media members, outlets, and awards institutions use these artists as tokens and sometimes unwitting pawns to signal their virtue to the public and their peers in the industry.
Red Dirt Artist Chad Sullins of the Last Call Coalition Has Died
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“A rock band that plays country music.” This was the way the Stillwater, Oklahoma-based Red Dirt band Chad Sullins and the Last Call Coalition were described for years. And it was only apt, because it’s also a good way to describe Red Dirt music in general.