New Year's Poem - Saving Country Music

December 3, 2012

2012 Saving Country Music Album of the Year Nominees

2012 was a bumper crop year for great albums in the greater country music world, and that necessitates a bolstered lineup of candidates for Saving Country Music’s coveted Album of the Year. 7 total made the list, with others admittedly getting completely screwed by their absence. I already have a bead of sweat forming across my brow brought on by the impossible decision of who I’m supposed to pick off this list.

100 Proof, Bloody Jug Band, Cabin Fever, Calamity Cubes, Cigarettes & Truckstops, Coffin Up Blood, Corb Lund, Eric Strickland, Goodbye Normal Street, Honky Tonk Till I Die, James Hand, Justin Townes Earle, Kellie Pickler, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Lindi Ortega, Mighty Lonesome Man, New Year's Poem, Olds Sleeper, Rachel Brooke, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Turnpike Troubadours

June 4, 2012

Top Albums of 2012 So Far

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2012 so far has been a remarkable year for top flight albums throughout the country world. That compelled me to tweak my regular mid-year format to not just include any album that has received a positive review (though these are all listed at the bottom), but instead highlight the ones that I think have a serious chance to be considered for Album of the Year.

100 Proof, Goodbye Normal Street, Justin Townes Earle, Kellie Pickler, Marty Stuart, Nashville Vol. 1 - Tear The Woodpile Down, New Year's Poem, Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now, Olds Sleeper, Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Grifter's Hymnal, Turnpike Troubadours

January 9, 2012

Album Review – Olds Sleeper “New Year’s Poem”

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Old’s New Year’s Poem opens up a new chapter in his music, and name’s his most complete album yet; at least of the ones I’ve heard. There’s a great balance between his balls-out fuzz jams and heart-straining ballads, and a good flow from stem to stern. Like anything that good poetry comes from, New Year’s Poem is inspiring.

daniel johnston, New Year's Poem, Olds Sleeper