Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#163)
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Don’t ever find yourself taking for granted that we live in such a fruitful, resurgent time for true country music. It’s a bumper crop of incredible songs coming out each week. This is where you can find the cream of the crop.
Saving Country Music’s 2023 Album of the Year Nominees
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‘Tis the season to go through all the albums released in country music this year, and attempt to asses what we think will withstand the test of time and ultimately define 2023. This isn’t about turning art into competition…
A Country Fan Remembers Shane MacGowan of The Pogues (RIP)
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It’s hard for a country fan to not get a little misty-eyed and reminisce fondly upon this man who contributed grandly to the traditional roots music world, despite his personal struggles.
Album Review – Jaime Wyatt’s “Feel Good”
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Jaime Wyatt is the kickass Outlaw lady of Americana who once robbed her drug dealer and did hard time in the California penitentiary before using country music to turn her life around and tell her story.
Viral Hank Williams Jr. Quote About Garth Brooks Revealed as Fake
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Garth Brooks is once again drawing ire from the public for doing a very Garth-like thing. But a viral quote falsely attributed to Hank Williams Jr. is just the latest canard to make the rounds on social media.
Album Review – Low Water Bridge Band’s “Back to the Valley”
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The Low Water Bridge Band embodies the very kind of roots-based sound and insistence on quality songwriting that has spearheaded the country music insurgency bursting out from country music’s mother land.
Bassist Jimbo Hart Leaves Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit
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One of the long-time members of Jason Isbell’s backing band The 400 Unit has officially left the outfit. Bassist Jimbo Hart has been part of the 400 Unit since the official formation of the band in 2008.
Album Review – The Wilder Blue’s “Super Natural”
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To call The Wilder Blue a “group” that makes “music” just feels a little … inadequate. It doesn’t properly articulate the experience of seeing these guys perform. Even labeling them a “supergroup” still feels inferior…
Wyatt Flores Has The “It” Factor
24 CommentsWyatt Flores has everything many of the other guy don’t, which is a refined ear, a more polished sound, and an actual production sense, while still delivering those cutting lines.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#131)
21 CommentsBefore you get bombarded with Christmas music for the rest of 2023, let’s run down some of the best songs from the latest releases in country and roots music you can be guaranteed mainstream radio won’t play.
The Iconic and Cringe of Dolly Parton’s Thanksgiving Performance
232 Commentss it possible for a performance to feel unquestionably iconic and memorable, and still cringey at the same time? Because that’s how one may feel about Dolly Parton on Thanksgiving, 2023.
Mike and the Moonpies Look to Start a New Thanksgiving Tradition
10 CommentsThere aren’t many songs about Thanksgiving, and even the songs that mention it aren’t really about the Holiday itself as much as something that happened on it. Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” is a good example.
Album Review – Daniel Donato’s “Reflector”
34 CommentsPrepare yourself for one of the most interesting, omnivorous, and immersive experiences that you can discover in music that still claims an allegiance to “country.” It’s Daniel Donato’s “Reflector.”