Challenging The Stigma That Good Musicians Can’t Have Day Jobs
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It’s been stigmatized over the years for a performer to have a second job, if not an entirely separate career while pursuing music on the side. Whether it’s fair or not, some perceive that working a second job makes you a second-class musician.
In Memoriam: Country Music’s Fallen Greats of 2024
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Before we look forward to 2025, let’s look back at 2024 and remember the important individuals we lost, from huge superstars, to songwriters and side players. They all contributed to the music we love, and deserve to be remembered.
Saving Country Music’s 2024 Essential Albums List
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Welcome to Saving Country Music’s most comprehensive guide to music in a given year, The Essential Albums List. It includes the “Most Essential” Albums, and then other albums reviewed and deemed worthy.
Willie Nelson, Jimmy Carter, and the Notorious White House Pot Incident
Part of the story that’s rarely told is the cautionary tale portion. While Willie Nelson was puffing away on the roof of the White House, he had a cast on his foot. It happens to be that his weed consumption had something to do with it.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#150)
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Detox from the onslaught of Christmas music with some of the best songs released in late 2024, along with some of the very promising singles released ahead of highly-anticipated albums for 2025.
The 2024 Saving Country Music SINGLE of the Year
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There are few if any other musical outfits who have so consistently shown a gift for unlocking the sheer unmitigated joy in music through a combination of talent and toil.
Album Review – Kiely Connell’s “My Own Company”
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Singer and songwriter Kiely Connell first burst into the music consciousness in 2021 with her excellent debut album “Calumet Queen.” Her voice was so striking, and her songs so emotive and cutting, she made a lasting impression.
Album Review – Hudson Westbrook (Self-Titled)
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Put Hudson Westbrook in your growing list of younger performers finding surprising success with more classic sounds, and helping to set true country music on a promising trajectory.
The Saving Country Music 2024 Artist of the Year
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The Saving Country Music Artist of the Year is someone who rekindles our spirit and hope that country music will be something future generations will also enjoy, and in it’s most genuine form.
Beloved Songwriter, Artist, Comedian John Hadley Has Died
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When it comes to songwriter, actor, painter, poet, writer, comedian, academic, and musician John Hadley, somehow the term “Renaissance Man” doesn’t seem to encapsulate the full breadth of his contributions.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival Announces 2025 Lineup
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There are many music festivals these days, but there’s only one Telluride Bluegrass Festival. As one of the oldest and most prestigious music gatherings in the world, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience each year.
The Saving Country Music 2024 Song of the Year
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Music isn’t just here to fill empty moments of time, and distract us from the mundane actions that make up the majority of our days. The best of music inspires the best of us as people. It rewires our brains.
Marty Stuart Breaks Ground on Final Phase of Congress of Country Music
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The final phase of Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music is finally moving forward, with a groundbreaking ceremony held last week (12-16) in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi.