The Biggest Takeaways from SXSW 2025
You don’t enjoy SXSW—the annual musical gathering in Austin, Texas every mid March. You endure it. You survive it. Here are Saving Country Music’s biggest takeaways from SXSW 2025.
Waxahatchee
Officially Declaring March 22nd a Country Music Holiday
Friday, March 22nd is one of those days where not just the top level of album releases includes monster names, but the volume of big album releases overall constitutes such a monster day of new music.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#134)
You better like COUNTRY music, because this update features plenty of it and in the form of some super traditional country songs, along with country songs from artists we don’t always get country songs from.
Album Review – Plains – “I Walked With You A Ways”
Plains is a passion project in every sense of the word. Forged as a partnership between Katie Crutchfield of the indie group Waxahatchee, and solo artist and songwriter Jess Williamson, it came together through the pair’s shared passion for country music. Since these two women’s primary musical projects…