2025 Mempho Music Fest Offers Killer Sunday Country Lineup
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We already knew this year’s event would feature some of the best in country and roots. What we didn’t know until their recent daily lineup reveal is that all these killer artists would be performing the same day.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#142)
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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 .
Album Review – Alice Wallace – “Here I Am”
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Once again showcasing her superior songwriting skills matched with the unparalleled power and control of her voice, ‘Here I Am’ evokes goosepumps, and at times stuns with the compelling and involved nature of the writing.
91 Year Old Willie Nelson Makes Return to Stage After Prolonged Illness
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We’d be lying if we didn’t say it’s been a tense couple weeks of nail biting and refreshing news feeds for many fans of Willie Nelson and country music. The 91-year-old was forced to cancel multiple shows.
Mile 0 Fest Announces Initial 2025 Lineup of New & Returning Names
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Premier Texas, Red Dirt, and Americana festival Mile 0 Fest in Key West, FL has announced its initial 2025 lineup, and it finds the return of many favored performers for the eighth year of the festival, as well as some new names
UPDATED: More Details Needed in Disturbing War & Treaty Cotton Plant Story
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Heading into the the 4th of July weekend, a disturbing story published in The Hollywood Reporter finds the Black country soul duo The War & Treaty accusing the Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Festival in Austin of racism.
Big Ponderoo: The Small Festival with Big Importance
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For the nonprofit and mostly volunteer-driven SFF Presents, the encroachment and dominance of musical juggernaut Live Nation is not just a hypothetical. The organization is on the front lines of supporting music on a local level.
Tyler Childers-Led Healing Appalachia Sets 2024 Lineup
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Healing Appalachia isn’t just a 3-day concert with a killer lineup, it is a concert for a cause. It’ll be holding its 2024 festivities once again at the State Fair of West Virginia grounds in Lewisburg on September 19-21.
An Ode to Raul Malo of The Mavericks
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Even before he recently announced a diagnosis with what we all hope is a treatable form of Cancer, anyone who asked me to name the best singer of this generation would receive the answer “Raul Malo” back without hesitation.
Big Moments, Cool Collaborations Mark the 2024 Jackalope Jamboree
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In 2024, the Jackalope Jamboree (June 27-29) still had some of the topmost names in independent country like Charley Crockett, Kaitlin Butts, and Silverada. It had legends of Red Dirt like Jason Boland, and The Randy Rogers Band.
Album Review – Kaitlin Butts – “Roadrunner!”
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Uninterested in taking a conventional approach to making an album, rising country star Kaitlin Butts finds inspiration in the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage production about her native state of Oklahoma.
George Strait to Get Hollywood Star, Along with … Keith Urban?!?
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If you want to get Keith Urban on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wait until a year after Strait gets his or something. The organizers of this make it seem like Strait and Urban are equals. It just sort of cheapens the whole thing.
Alan Jackson The SONGWRITER to be Honored
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These days we’re used to songwriting by committee, especially from most mainstream major label country stars. But even in Alan Jackson’s most productive era, an artist writing most of their own songs like Alan was rare.