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March 3, 2025

The Man, The Life, and the Mystery of Dolly Parton’s Husband Carl Dean (RIP)

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In truth, it’s what we don’t know about Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean that makes him so intriguing, important, and exceptional; not the scant details we do have.

February 23, 2019

Johnny Cash Restaurant to Replace Promised Merle Haggard Museum

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In October of 2017, traditional country fans were all giddy to read that a proper museum for Merle Haggard was on the way in Nashville’s Lower Broadway district where similar museums for Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Patsy Cline hold court, finally giving fans of the Hag a Mecca to herd to after his death in 2016.

February 22, 2019

The 2019 Grammys May Have Been Kacey Musgraves’ “Moment”

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The 2019 Grammys May Have Been Kacey Musgraves’ “Moment”

A “moment” is something that used to happen more often in music, when an artist would take the stage in front of a national audience, or have a big showing at an awards show, and completely stun audiences across traditional divides of taste and culture, capturing the zeitgeist in a way that permeated the populace […]

February 21, 2019

2019 ACM Awards Nominations Should Be Regarded with Perspective

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The ACM Awards announced their 2019 nominees on Wednesday (2-21), and it felt so liberating to not feel the need to immediately deliberate over the organization’s conclusions, and instead regard them with the tacit relevance they probably deserve.

February 21, 2019

Album Review- Dale Watson’s “Call Me Lucky”

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Dale Watson is incapable of hiding his roots. He’s so damn country, he started his own genre called Ameripolitan just to get away from what country music has become. There is nobody less likely skid off the tracks and abandon their country principles on this big sphere of rock hurdling through space than Dale Watson.

February 20, 2019

End of an Era: Guitarist David Abeyta Leaves Reckless Kelly

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Austin-based Texas/Southern/Red Dirt/Alt country rock band Reckless Kelly is probably best known for being the home of brothers Willy and Cody Braun. But if there was a third member that fans most identify with as one of the most important members of the band over the last 20 years, it would be lead guitar player David Abeyta.

February 20, 2019

Tyler Childers Adds To 2019 Tour Dates & Festival Appearances

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You get the sense that Tyler Chiders is sitting right on the cusp. When you mention his name, there is an energy behind it that charges the air, like you know he’s someone ready to break out in the biggest way at any moment. When he releases a new record, it could be a monumental event, and have reverberations throughout country music.

February 19, 2019

George Strait Makes Incredible Comeback on Country Radio

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“Stunning” is the only way to put this. “A shot out of the dark” might be another. “Awesome” would be a third. But however you want to put it, “King” George Strait is back on country radio, and in a big way with his brand new single “Every Little Honky Tonk Bar.”

February 19, 2019

2019 Folk Alliance International in Words and Pictures

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Folk Alliance International is the annual gathering of the tribes for those individuals too stubborn-headed to worry about the major commercial applications of performed music, and instead do it for the spirit of the art, the community it creates, and/or to preserve primitive musical art forms in their most pure state.

February 19, 2019

This Is Not How Miranda Lambert’s Marriage Was Supposed to Be Revealed

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Life rarely works out the way you plan it, and this is especially true when it comes to marriages and divorces. In the world of power celebrities, marriage is often its own occupation in leveraging the attention of the masses via celebrity gossip rags to make one’s popular culture brand more compelling to the wide population.

February 18, 2019

Marty Stuart Announces Big Tour w/ Steve Miller Band

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Though it may seem like a strange pairing on the surface, remember Marty Stuart is still currently touring behind his latest record Way Out West, which tracks the lineage of country music on the West Coast from the Bakersfield Sound to the psychedelic influences of the 60’s and 70’s.

February 18, 2019

Lydia Loveless Claims Bloodshot Records “Covered Up” Harassment – Co-Owner Steps Away

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Alt-country singer and songwriter Lydia Loveless has come out with a statement saying that independent, Chicago-based insurgent country label Bloodshot Records did not properly address the behavior of an individual associated with the company who regularly sexually harassed and groped her.

February 17, 2019

Newest Additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#36)

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Some very big names, and some names to discover are included in the newest additions of the Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist. Fresh off her four wins at the Grammy Awards including for Album of the Year, Kacey Musgraves has released her first proper radio single from ‘Golden Hour’ in the form of “Rainbow.”

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