The 2025 CMA Awards Set Up Pretty for Zach Top
28 Comments
It’s a very real possibility that Zach Top doesn’t win a single trophy at the 2025 CMA Awards. But in some respects, it doesn’t matter if he does. He’s already won as a traditionalist on an independent label.
You See, This is Why Billy Strings Is “The Man”
10 Comments
Right before Billy was set to take the stage for his headlining performance Friday night to play songs from the new album, he got a call from back home. His wife was in labor, and about to give birth to the couple’s first child.
70 Years Ago: Elvis Makes His Opry Debut. It Doesn’t Go Well
20 Comments
It’s a common cliché and idiom here in 2024. Whenever someone gets up to sing in front of others and their talent is less than … well, professional let’s say, we chide, “Don’t quit your day job.” This is what Elvis was told.
CMT Gutted in Latest Round of Layoffs. Leslie Fram Departs.
26 Comments
At this point, it’s hard to see how CMT continues forward as even a semblance of what it once was after the latest round of layoffs from parent company Paramount gut the country music cable network of top-tier talent.
This Is Big: Zach Top to Open for Alan Jackson
19 Comments
Zach Top is out there reminding the world that the ’90s were the last great era in popular country music, and now he’ll be saddling up with one of the last true torchbearers from the ’90s era., Alan Jackson.
Album Review – Billy Strings – “Highway Prayers” (+ Song Reviews)
36 Comments
Billy Strings has taken bluegrass to the arena and beyond. And every time you believe he’s going to abandon the discipline or stretch it too far, he doubles down on his bluegrass roots like he does with “Highway Prayers.”
Cross Canadian Ragweed to Reunite, Play Show in Oklahoma
44 Comments
The rumors are true. Legendary Red Dirt band Cross Canadian Ragweed is reuniting, and will be playing a show with fellow Oklahoma legends the Turnpike Troubadours and other Red Dirt legends.
Kris Kristofferson, Toby Keith and the Outlandish “Rolling Stone” Altercation
58 Comments
The media loves to place individuals firmly in the political binary, and then pit them against each other. It’s good for clicks and business, even if it causes collateral damage in communities or greater society in the process.
Album Review – JP Harris – “JP Harris is a Trash Fire”
18 Comments
As self-deprecating and under-the-radar as JP Harris may be, he is no less than a living legend to a lot of the independent country performers in East Nashville and beyond, and to the handful of fervent fans he’s accrued.
Kris Kristofferson: Country Music’s Poet Laureate and Revolutionary Lyricist Passes
60 Comments
It’s impossible to compose a proper summation of the career of Kris Kristofferson. You can’t tie a nice little bow around it, because it’s so bursting and effusive, and touches so many sectors of American society.
It Don’t Matter Who’s Selling Out Arenas, Del McCoury is Still The King
20 Comments
The International Bluegrass Music Association held their annual awards on September 26th. And it wasn’t bluegrass phenom Billy Strings who’s out there selling out arenas that walked away with the top award.
Hugh Prestwood Helped Raise Concern About Country’s Songwriters (RIP)
15 Comments
when his life hit the skids like it’s done for so many of country’s legacy songwriters and Hugh Prestwood faced an uncertain future, the music community stepped up in a heartening way.
Album Review – Eliza Thorn’s “Somebody New”
15 Comments
Eliza Thorn offers a super tasty, diverse, enriching, and involved album for her official debut that shows off a wide array of influences and talents across a spectrum of roots music, fulfilling the appetite of the audience.