Release Radar, Most Anticipated New Albums for Final Portion of 2026
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We’re heading into the home stretch of 2026, and we very well could still see some of the best albums released in country and roots music coming out in the impending months. This list is intended to keep you informed.
Alan Jackson Receives Major, Unexpected Honor at ACM Awards
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Alan Jackson was the inaugural recipient of the ACM Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Annual ACM Awards in Dallas (Frisco), TX. Announced right before he took the stage.
The 2025 ACM Awards LIVE Blog
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2025 ACM Awards LIVE Blog! As the event transpires, we’ll be following along in real time, razzing on folks for poor performances and life choices, and giving credit where it is due.
Why Backing Tracks Are Frowned Upon in Country Music
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Country music is unlike most other popular music genres. It’s humans impressing fingers on wood and wire, and singing from the gut and soul in the beautiful imperfection of authentic expression.
Zach Bryan Gets His … And Then Some
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So much for releasing only one more major label album, mostly stepping away from music, or outright retiring altogether, all of which Zach Bryan has flirted with or overtly promised over the last year or two.
50 Years Ago: Willie Nelson Drops the “Greatest Country Album of All Time”
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It wasn’t just a country album. It was the country album. It ended one era in country music, and began a new one, while going on to define the era it founded, and to define country music for generations.
Release Radar & Most Anticipated Albums for 2nd Half of 2025
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No rest for independent country music fans in the second half of 2025. Some excellent country music projects will be coming at you, and this is your updating guide too get you through it all.
10 Years Ago: Chris Stapleton Revolutionizes Country with Landmark Album
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There are just a few landmark records that you can point back to in the history of country music and legitimately claim they revolutionized the genre in fundamental ways.
Album Review – Christopher Seymore’s “King of Nothing”
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It’s ten kick ass, easy-to-love country songs that sound just like country music always has, and always should. But if you want to delve a little bit deeper, you’ll also discover its quiet genius.
Mark Chesnutt Comes Clean About Battles with Alcohol
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We almost lost Mark Chesnutt, and a couple of times, and for multiple reasons. And that would have been a devastating loss for country music. Mark Chesnutt a ’90s country hero up there with some of the best of the era.
Album Review – Eric Church’s “Evangeline vs. The Machine”
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Congratulations Eric Church fans, this is what you waited four years for—seven new songs and a Tom Waits cover spectacularly overproduced by Jay Joyce. “Evangeline vs. The Machine” is right…
Opry’s 100th Anniversary Book Doesn’t Shy Away from Controversy
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Would we only get a wine and roses portrayal of the Opry, especially through the modern era? Or would it be willing to present the accurate history, warts and all? Luckily, the latter is the case.
Album Review – Mason Via (Self-Titled)
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Combining adept flat-picking with top-caliber songwriting and a voice perfectly tooled for bluegrass, Mason Via brings an accessibility and immediacy to the bluegrass discipline.