Blue Ox Festival Boasts Big Lineup for 2026
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In 2026, The Blue Ox Festival features a stacked lineup of country and roots talent, topped off by some of the top live performers of the discipline, some of the greatest live acts in all of music.
Album Review – Kelsey Waldon’s “There’s Always a Song”
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Taking a quick detour from her towering albums of original songs, the “Pearl of Kentucky Country Music” Kelsey Waldon stops down to leave behind some signature versions of her most favored songs.
Saving Country Music Suffers Cyberattack Over Morgan Wallen Article
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In sixteen years of operation, and over 8,500 articles published, an attack of this size and scope has never been experienced by Saving Country Music, and the website has never been unavailable for as long of a period.
Screw Apple Music For Not Including Country in Their Top 100 Albums
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Get pissed. Get mad. Be personally offended as a country music fan that on Apple Music’s recently revealed “Best 100 Albums” of all time, there isn’t a single actual country music album to be found.
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” Slips on Charts, Disappears on Country Radio
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It was supposed to be one of the biggest events in music in 2024, if not one of the biggest in music in the last many years. Most definitely it was going to be the defining moment in country music in 2024, if not in country history.
Red Clay Strays Announce New Album “Made By These Moments”
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The Red Clay Strays are already taking the country and roots world by storm with their throwback Sun Records-inspired sound. Their new album produced by Dave Cobb and backed by RCA Records only promises to up the ante.
Country Music Has a Morgan Wallen Problem. It’s a Complex One
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Country music, Nashville, and the American public doesn’t exactly know what to do with this guy after strings of incidents where Morgan Wallen has embarrassed himself and country music by proxy.
Review – Bo Outlaw & Løiten Twang Depot’s “Bars-Brunettes-Big Rigs”
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If you’re looking for some hard-charging, hard-twangin’, old-fashioned truck drivin’ honky tonk music, Bo Outlaw and Løiten Twang Depot kick in like a handful of truck stop Mini Thins with “Bars – Brunettes – Big Rigs.”
Lainey Wilson Invited to be Next Grand Ole Opry Member
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On the season finale of The Voice Tuesday evening (5-21), Reba McEntire surprised Lainey Wilson with the official invitation. Reba is currently a judge on the show, and Wilson was performing her latest single .
Album Review – The Mavericks – “Moon & Stars”
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There’s not much better than a song from The Mavericks when they really get a hold of one, and do what The Mavericks do. You’re almost apt to forget or overlook them as a country fan, but you shouldn’t.
Tyler Childers to Headline Inaugural “Whizzbangers Ball”
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Tyler Childers will headline it all, with the side project of his backing band called El Dorado playing as well. It comes at a time when Tyler Childers is selling out arenas left and right, but tickets still remain.
Jesse Welles: The Voice of America’s Guilty Conscience
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Jesse Welles has taken to social media, going where even many of the supposed bravest Americana songwriters are unwilling to go after weighing what sharing the honest truth might do to their careers.
George Strait Drops Details, Debut Song from New Album
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George Strait has finally dropped the details and a debut song from his first album in five years, “Cowboys and Dreamers.” And as one of the premier living legends in country music, the album is certainly to be anticipated.