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February 10, 2025

Braun Brothers Reunion Unveils Beefy Lineup for 2025

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t’s a festival. It’s a homecoming. It’s a family reunion. It’s the Braun Brothers Reunion, and it’s one of the longest-running traditions in Texas music held in Idaho each summer. 2025 will be no different.

March 14, 2018

Bebe Rexha Admits She Doesn’t Consider Herself Country, So Why Does Billboard?

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If Bebe Rexha herself is not claiming to be country, then why the hell has her song been #1 on the country charts for 15 weeks now, and just broke the Top 10 at country radio? Someone please send Bebe Rexha’s quote over to Billboard’s country chart manager Jim Asker and have him explain to us why this ruse continues.

March 13, 2018

Album Review – Larry Peninsula’s “Country Music Only”

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It’s astounding how far a passion for country music can travel, and in the case of Larry Peninsula, it made its way to to Scandinavia, and Peninsula’s home country of Finland where he’s been obsessing over everything tied to traditional country music and the American West for many years.

March 13, 2018

Why Miranda Lambert Is That 4th Mt. Rushmore Name We’ve Been Looking For

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Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Jason Isbell comprise the current Mt. Rushmore of independent country and roots music, and that is unquestionable, regardless of how you may feel about any one of them specifically, or even as a group. But what is the fourth mug we can put on top of that mountain?

March 13, 2018

Sam Hunt’s Genre-Blurring “Nashional” Music Festival Cancelled

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The inaugural “Nashional” music festival set to transpire in just over a month at Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall on April 20th and 21st has been cancelled. It was planned, curated, and set to be headlined by genre-bending “country” star Sam Hunt.

March 12, 2018

Jason Boland and the Stragglers Ready New Album “Hard Times Are Relative”

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“We’ve always just wanted to entertain ourselves and put out music that would be a part of people’s lives, not just something passing to them,” says Jason Boland. “We want to be something more monolithic. We’re just a social experiment at this point .”

March 12, 2018

Song Review – Blake Shelton’s “I Lived It”

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The mood has shifted on mainstream country radio, at least for the moment. And as spring rounds the corner, so does a renewed sense that perhaps a rebirth is occurring as better songs are blooming on the radio charts all over the place. If you’re stuck like a broken record saying all mainstream country sucks, you’re missing the bigger picture

March 12, 2018

Countrypolitan Emerges As a Growing Influence in 2018

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“Countrypolitan” or “The Nashville Sound” are the terms used to describe the lush, orchestral approach to country music that took root in Nashville in the 60’s, which embellished the music with strings and chorus sections to make it appeal to a more distinguishing audience of the time. It was Music Row’s answer to the counterculture revolution.

March 11, 2018

Album Review – Dallas Moore’s “Mr. Honky Tonk”

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This is the record that when someone asks you, “Dallas Moore? Where should I start?” you have a solid answer. “Mr. Honky Tonk” is Dallas Moore’s most refined, polished, and professional album yet, but without compromising any of the grit and attitude that has earned him such a dedicated following and the “true Outlaw” moniker.

March 9, 2018

Brent Cobb Announces New Album, Tributes Wayne Mills in Debut Song

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Smooth country blues Georgia soul songsmith Brent Cobb will be releasing his latest album “Providence Canyon.” Produced by cousin Dave Cobb, it is led by the song “King of Alabama,,” which is a tribute to slain country music artist Wayne Mills.

March 9, 2018

The Randy Travis “Diggin’ Up Songs” Spotify Playlist is Total Garbage

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The effrontery of whomever is really responsible for compiling these five songs together and presenting it as an expression of Randy’s tastes or desires is appalling. This is ridiculous, and everyone involved in the perpetration of this ruse must think we are all incredibly gullible, and should be called out publicly.

March 8, 2018

This Bebe Rexha Madness Has To Stop

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Bebe Rexha and her song “Meant to Be” with Florida Georgia Line has officially become to sum of all the fears for the encroachment of pop into country. Now spending its 14th week at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, “Meant To Be” officially becomes the biggest song for a woman in the 70 year history of the country genre.

March 8, 2018

Sturgill Simpson Reveals Plot for Double Album on Joe Rogan Podcast

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The always elusive and enigmatic Sturgill Simpson stopped by the studio of Joe Rogan in Los Angeles to record a long-form podcast recently, and revealed some interesting tidbits about his musical plans in the coming future both recorded and live during the nearly three-hour discussion.

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