King Goose Offers Videos and a Haven for Touring Performers
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Royce Johns recently set up a dedicated house studio where he’s looking to capture touring performers coming through town in intimate videos, similar to Western AF and Gems on VHS.
Album Review – Florida Georgia Line’s “Can’t Say I Ain’t Country”
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When it comes to popular music, every generation has its goat. And no, we’re not talking about the hip social media acronym for the “Greatest of All Time.” We’re talking about the sacrificial kind—the one synonymous with an ornery horned land animal that eats your garden and shits everywhere.
Don’t Expect Zac Brown Band’s New Record to be Country
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Can we go back to the time when the biggest worry we had with The Zac Brown Band was that his song “Chicken Fried” was a precursor to Bro-Country? Remember that moment in 2009 when he took the stage at the CMA Awards and ripped into a badass version of “Devil Went Down to Georgia” and had us all pumping our fists?
How Do We Regard Bloodshot Records After Lydia Loveless Revelations?
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Bloodshot Records was a stepping stone, and a repository for artists who were too ornery to be signed elsewhere. And that was what was cool about them. It was a punk attitude imprinted on country, and their verbiage about leading an insurgency inspired others to pick up the charge to take country music back, including this very website.
Winners & Recap of the 2019 Ameripolitan Awards
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Memphis, Tennessee was overrun this weekend with throwback hillbillies, Outlaw roughnecks, and Rockabilly Daddy-O’s/Susie Q’s as part of Dale Watson’s 6th Annual Ameripolitan shindig and awards show. The event culminated in the 6th Annual Ameripolitan Awards.
Mac Wiseman Was One of the Very Last Links to Country’s Historic Past
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Country Music Hall of Famer, Bluegrass Hall of Famer, performer, executive, songwriter, and general country music advocate Mac Wiseman has passed away. He was 93-years-old, and was one of the last living links to country music’s golden era. He died on Sunday, February 24th.
Album Review – Yola’s “Walk Through The Fire”
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An artist like Yola is the antidote to such a prognosis; a firewall against the free-range onslaught of cultural sameness pervading popular music. She represents a lushness of perspective, and a re-invigoration of musical diversity, beyond any shallow observances simply based upon skin pigmentation.
This New Brooks & Dunn “Reboot” Could Be Interesting
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The heart welled up with excitement in many true country music fans when word came down that Brooks & Dunn had a new title on the way, only to be tempered by the fact that it’s a Reboot (nice double entendre there) of some of their old classics re-recorded with contemporary stars.
Todd Milsap, Son of Ronnie Milsap, Dies Unexpectedly
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Ronald Todd Milsap, the son of Country Music Hall of Famer Ronnie Milsap and a man who worked behind-the-scenes in the music business, has died at the age of 49. He was found dead on his houseboat at the Four Corners Marina on Percy Priest Lake just east of Nashville Saturday morning (2-23).
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.
The 2019 Grammys May Have Been Kacey Musgraves’ “Moment”
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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 […]
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.
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.