Album Review – Drayton Farley’s “A Heavy Duty Heart”
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Songwriting with purpose that’s unafraid to grow older and wiser with its audience, clothed in country rock music that’s unafraid to yearn for wide and infectious appeal—this is the experience of ‘A Heavy Duty Heart.’
Zach Top Adds Dates to Sold Out 2025 Tour
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Like a Black Friday feeding frenzy where people are elbowing old ladies in the face for a chance at a door buster deal, folks are falling all over themselves for tickets to Zach Top’s 2025 headliner shows.
Deconstructing Billboard’s “100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time”
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Recently, Billboard published a list of what they believe are the “100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time.” As always with these lists, it has stimulated lots of conversation, and some controversy.
Album Review – “Hayes and the Heathens” (Self-Titled)
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There are few things more titillating than word coming down that two of your favorite performers are teaming up in the studio together. Where sometimes these pairings can be a bit deflating, ‘Hayes and the Heathens’ delivers.
All Songs & Artists Featured on ‘Landman’ Season 1 (Running Tab)
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All the songs and artists featured in the Taylor Sheridan-produced searies “Landman” streaming on Paramount+, including the scenes in which they are featured. Updated each week as new episodes premier.
On The Jokes About Shaboozey at the CMA Awards
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A joke is a joke, and not meant to be taken seriously. And one would hope that we’re finally moving past the era when a predatory media isn’t preoccupied with taking opportunistic pull quotes out-of-context.
The Steel Woods Say Final Farewell
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The Steel Woods show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Friday night (11-22) took on special significance. After nearly 10 years of touring and four critically-acclaimed albums, it was time for them to take their final bow.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#149)
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The last couple of weeks of November have seen a cavalcade of excellent singles being released, from incredible original songs, to some choice covers that rarely make it on this playlist, but are so good they can’t be denied.
Jason Boland & the Stragglers Announce New Album “Last Kings of Babylon”
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“This album is a mirror,” says Boland. “It’s a retrospective, a reflection of everywhere we’ve been and everything we’ve learned over the last 25 years on the road. These songs are about the journey. We were searching for something.”
Ags Connolly Pays Tribute to Mentor James “Slim” Hand
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Whether you’re intimate with the James Hands catalog or not, you’re happy to see an album like this being made, especially knowing Ags Connolly’s story. Ags went from a starry-eyed fan of James Hand to a friend.
Dwight Yoakam Plots 2025 Tour with Cool Openers
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Country music’s King of Cool is hitting the road behind his brand new album ‘Brighter Days’—his first in nearly a decade—and he’s taking some other cool folks along with him: The Mavericks and 49 Winchester.
Toby Keith Deserved More Than a “Toast” at the 2024 CMA Awards
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It sets a bad precedent that when a titan of country music passes, we don’t take anything more than 20 seconds and a box of plastic cups to pay tribute. This is country music, and we honor our past legends.
Brooks & Dunn Shocks The World By Winning 2024 CMA Duo of the Year
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To put it plainly, someone screwed up. The CMA Awards are not here to honor the past legends of the genre with current awards. But despite the odds, Brooks & Dunn is the CMA Vocal Duo of the Year for 2024.