Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#146)
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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist is built to keep you informed on all the best songs and albums coming out right here, right now in country and roots music. It’s available on most all streaming formats.
Saving Country Music’s 45 Essential Albums for 2013
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Here they are folks, the 45 albums Saving Country Music deems essential for listening in 2013. I dramatically increased the amount of albums in this list from previous years in the spirit of trying to get more music out to more people. Similarly, I reviewed many more albums in 2013 than ever before. Please feel free to share your essential albums below in the comments section.
Garth Brooks Wearing Phiten Necklace to Help “Destroy Country”
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Apparently despite Garth’s world-beating success, he still is hungry, and has some unresolved business to take up with country music. And looking to get a strategic advantage over his competition, he’s employed the services of the somewhat unproven, but very popular health accessory known as the Phiten necklace, worn by many professional athletes, especially throughout Major League Baseball.
Top 10 Biggest Country Music News Stories in 2013
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2013 was a year defined by massive stories in country music. From historic deaths like the passing of country music writer Chet Flippo, artist and producer Tompall Glaser, producer and songwriter “Cowboy” Jack Clement, Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne and others, to the feuds that erupted as country music continues to be in the midst of a culture war, 2013 was tumultuous to say the least.
Wayne Mills Remembered In Hometown Memorial Service
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On December 8th, friends, family, and fans of musician and songwriter Jerald Wayne Mills gathered in the High School Auditorium of Wayne’s hometown of Arab, AL for a final remembrance of the man who was gunned down tragically in Nashville on November 23rd. Jonathan Barbee presented the “Commendation from the Governor” from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley.
The White Buffalo’s “Shadows, Greys, and Evil Ways”
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“Hey, have you heard of The White Buffalo?” This is one of the questions that has plagued the second half of my 2013, as devotees of the shadowy, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter pursue me, knowing what a sucker I am for narrative-based songwriting told through a thematic album. And that’s just what The White Buffalo, aka Jake Smith delivers in his latest record “Shadows, Greys, and Evil Ways” released in September.
10 Badass Waylon Jennings Moments
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Some of the new “Outlaws” in country music will have you believe that getting some mud on their tires or drinking a little too much is tantamount to years of paying dues and sewing your true Outlaw oats like the original Outlaws did. So here’s ten reasons why today’s “Outlaws” will never live up to the legacy of one of the biggest country music Outlaws, Waylon Waymore Watashin By God Hoss Tecumseh Jennings.
Chris Ferrell Arrested on 2nd Degree Murder in Wayne Mills Case
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According to Nashville Police, Chris Ferrell, owner of the Pit & Barrell Bar, has been arrested on 2nd degree murder charges in the death of country music songwriter and Outlaw artist Wayne Mills. “Bar owner Christopher Michael Ferrell surrendered himself a short time ago on a Davidson County Grand Jury indictment charging him with second-degree murder for the November 23rd shooting death of musician Jerald Wayne Mills. “
Wayne Mills Death Case Headed to Grand Jury
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The homicide investigation into the death of country music songwriter and Outlaw artist Wayne Mills is likely headed to the Grand Jury, according to information Saving Country Music has obtained from multiple sources close to the investigation. The current Grand Jury for December is set to be dismissed next week, and the next Grand Jury will not convene until the beginning of the new year.
Rolling Stone To Launch Million-Dollar Country Music Website
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Legacy music and culture magazine Rolling Stone is taking a cue from some of the pop, rock, and cultural personalities it has covered over the years and is “going country” in the second quarter of 2014 with a dedicated country music website looking to employ a full time staff of 10 to 15 people, and put out 8 to 12 articles a day. Rolling Stone plans to spend $1 million on the site in the first year.
2013 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
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When you sit down to assemble a list of candidates for Song of the Year, you almost start to tremble in the face of so much creativity, inspiration, and insight, and grow humbled by how fortunate we are to live in such a bountiful time for music. Candidates for Song of the Year can’t just be songs we enjoy, they are songs that make you change the way you see the world, or change the way you see yourself.
Clear Channel, CMT Deal Means More Homogenization
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Clear Channel, the largest radio provider in the US, just struck a massive deal with CMT, a division of Viacom, to create national country music programming to be distributed across 125 country radio stations owned by Clear Channel, as well as some digital and television platforms. The move is meant to match a similar national syndicated format created by the second-biggest radio provider in the US, Cumulus.
Eric Church Targets Taylor Swift in Outsiders Teaser (An Uber Rant)
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In the latest installment in a series of cryptic teaser videos Eric Church has released ahead of his new album The Outsiders, Church culls footage from the recent CMA Awards, and specifically Taylor Swift’s speech accepting the Pinnacle Award in a creepy, if not downright disturbing video full of obtuse connotations and veiled threats.