The 89(+) Dedicated Articles on SCM Featuring POC & LGBT Artists
In the continued and ongoing effort to slander, cancel, and deplatform Saving Country Music based on Jussie Smollett-style fake accusations by rival journalists tied to coverage of the death of Charley Pride, performer Margo Price made some defaming comments about me, Kyle “Trigger” Coroneos, on Saturday evening (12-19).
“it’s encouraging to see lots of people speaking out against the hack blogger Kyle Coroneos,” she said in a tweet. “he’s an uneducated, misogynistic, racist, homophobic bully who has harrassed me and many others for years. anyone still sharing/supporting this small minded man is lost.”
But along with no evidence of this supposed misogyny, racist, and homophobic behavior, what Margo Price and others making these unfounded accusations are overlooking is the reams of positive coverage Saving Country Music publishes every year in a dedicated focus of elevating the voices of minorities and LGBT members in country music.
So as a simple illustration of the support Saving Country Music shows to minorities and LGBT members in country, here is a list of 89 dedicated features covering these artists posted over the last few years to go along with the list of 97 Women SCM Has Featured in 2020 alone.
This is very unlikely all the coverage Saving Country Music has posted for these artists. However, in lieu of going through every article posted on the site, searches for artists were conducted to compile this list for time efficiency. Nonetheless, it should underpin that accusations of being exclusionary to LGBT members and minorities is baseless.
Please appreciate that this is in no way encapsulates all the coverage that LGBT members and minorities have received on Saving Country Music in 2020. For example, this doesn’t include the dozens of playlist updates where featured artists get a write up when they’re added. It also doesn’t include the quarterly “Most Anticipated” posts where upcoming releases from artists are featured. It doesn’t include bands that may have minority members in the lineup, like Mike and the Moonpies. It also doesn’t include recap festival coverage or social media and Instagram posts.
Thanks for reading.
1. Brothers That Bring The Roots
2. Carolina Chocolate Drops: True Diversity in “Leaving Eden”
3. Valerie June Stuns the ACM Awards in Duet with Eric Church
4. Mississippi Blues Legend T Model Ford Suffers Stroke
5. The Mysterious Woman in Red Revealed: Interview with Valerie June
6. Mississippi Blues Legend T Model Ford Dies
7. Valerie June is “Pushin’ Against A Stone” No More
8. Mickey Guyton’s Making Waves with “Better Than You Left Me”
9. Robert Belfour’s Undying Commitment to the Blues
10. Jason Aldean Wore Blackface As Part of His 2015 Halloween Costume
11. Album Review – Rhiannon Giddens’ “Tomorrow Is My Turn
12. Album Review – Aaron Vance’s “Shifting Gears”
13. Watch Out For Rhiannon Giddens
14. Charley Pride and Jimmie Rodgers to Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
15. Album Review – Valerie June’s “The Order of Time”
16. Charley Pride Readies New Album “Music In My Heart”
17. Album Review – Aaron Vance’s “My Own Way”
18. Song Review – Mickey Guyton’s “Nice Things” –
19. Listen to Charley Crockett Reignite Country Classics on His “Honky Tonk Jubilee”
20. African Americans Helping to Keep Country & Roots Music Alive
21. Album Review – Charley Crockett’s “Lonesome As a Shadow”
22. Americana Review – AHI’s “In Our Time”
23. Album Review – Yola’s “Walk Through The Fire”
24. Viral Lil Nas X Twiter Thread Excludes Charley Pride from Country History
25. 20 African American Artists Better For Country Than Lil Nas X
26. Charley Crockett Hits Road After Health Issues, Sets Opry Debut
27. Charley Crockett is a Big Jame Hand Fan, & You Should Be Too
28. Album Review – Rhianon Giddens’ “there is no Other”
29. Rhiannon Giddens On One of the True Causes of “Black Erasure” in Country
30. Beloved Billy Joe Shaver Bass Player Tony Calhoun Has Died
31. Adam Matta Exemplifies Creative Cross-Genre Collaboration
32. Who Is Raising Hell with the Houston Rodeo for Booking Leon Bridges?
33. Charley Pride Manager Says CMA Critics “Crusading to Stir Up Mud”
34. CMAs Issue Statement After Concerns Over the Death of Charley Pride
35. Album Review – Bo DePeña (Self-Titled)
36. Album Review – The Mavericks “En Español”
37. The Mavericks Ready Spanish Language Album ‘En Español’
38. Album Review – The Mavericks “Play The Hits”
39. The Mavericks Launch 30th Anniversary World Tour
40. Raul Malo of The Mavericks Barks Down Aggressive Security at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
41. Album Review – The Mavericks’ “Mono”
42. The Mavericks to Release New Album “Mono”
43. Christmastime in Gruene, TX with The Mavericks
44. The Mavericks “In Time” One of the Best of 2013
45. Suspects Sought After Assault on Mavericks Trumpet Player
46. Saving Country Music’s 2013 Album of the Year (The Mavericks)
47. Album Review – Gabe Lee’s “Honky Tonk Hell”
48. Gabe Lee Gets Loud on New Song “Honky Tonk Hell”
49. Album Review – Gabe Lee’s “Farmland”
50. Charley Crockett Wants You To Call Him At (512) 380-1890
51. Album Review – Charley Crockett’s “Welcome to Hard Times”
52. Charley Crockett Brings Cinematic Vision to “Run Horse Run”
53. Charley Crockett Announces New Album “Welcome To Hard Times”
54. Album Review – Charley Crockett’s “The Valley”
55. Charley Crockett on Upcoming Album ‘The Valley,’ Writing w/ Evan Felker
56. Meet The Dream Rovers: Iran’s Hardcore Traditional Country Band
57. Vintage Album Review – Sarah Shook & The Devil’s “Seven”
58. Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Add 2019 Tour Dates
59. Sarah Shook and the Disarmers Release 7″ – New Tour Dates
60. The Rise of Sarah Shook and the Disarmers
61. Sarah Shook Releases Tons of New Tour Dates – New Video
62. Album Review – Sarah Shook’s “Years”
63. Sarah Shook Announces Sophomore Album “Years”
64. Sarah Shook Signs with Bloodshot Records, Relaunch of “Sidelong” Coming
65. Album Review – “Sidelong” by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
66. Saving Country Music’s 2018 Album of the Year (Sarah Shook)
67. Album Review – Brandy Clark’s “Your Life is a Record”
68. Brandy Clark Announces New Album “Your Life Is A Record”
69. New Brandy Clark Album “Your Life Is A Record” Coming
70. Album Review – Brandy Clark’s “Big Day in a Small Town”
71. Brandy Clark’s New Album “Big Day in a Small Town” Delayed Until June 10th
72. Song Review – Brandy Clark’s “Girl Next Door”
73. Brandy Clark and Steve Earle Talk Saving Country Music
74. Brandy Clark Sees Biggest Sales Spike of All Grammy Performers
75. Why Brandy Clark Was The Best Candidate to Integrate Country
76. Brandy Clark Reveals The Pain Behind The Smile In “12 Stories”
77. Brandi Carlile Caps Off Resurgent 2019 Old Settler’s Music Fest
78. Brandi Carlile Sweeps Americana Category at the 2019 Grammy Awards
79. Brandi Carlile Leads 2019 Country & Roots Grammy Nominations
80. Brandi Carlile Shows Needed Leadership in Launching “Girls Just Wanna” Festival
81. Album Review – Brandi Carlile’s “By The Way, I Forgive You”
82. Brandi Carlile Soars in “The Firewatcher’s Daughter”
83. Album Review – Jaime Wyatt’s “Neon Cross”
84. Jaime Wyatt Reveals New Song & Album, “Neon Cross”
85. Jaime Wyatt Impresses at AmericanaFest 2018
86. Album Review – Jaime Wyatt’s “Felony Blues”
87.Waylon Payne Readies Release of Long-Awaited Album
88. Ty Herndon & Billy Gilman Come Out As Gay Male Country Stars
89. Why Jennifer Nettles Is an Imperfect Advocate for “Equal Play”
90. Album Review – Trixie Mattel’s “One Stone”
December 20, 2020 @ 10:27 am
Another song (a homage Tim Wilson (RIP)
This list is gay
This list is gay
It should hopefully answer to what Margo Price has to say
It’ll have her so worked up she’ll need to go to the YMCA
This list is gay
This list is gay
December 20, 2020 @ 10:33 am
I owe you a huge debt of gratitude for introducing me to Charley Crockett. He’s become a favorite of mine. Thank you, Kyle, for all that you are doing for real country music!
December 20, 2020 @ 10:36 am
Hmmmmm I’m almost starting to suspect her comments are unsubstantiated and “uneducated.” Just kidding, we already knew that.
As brain numbing as it was, I looked at her post and some of the replies. More than one person pointed out that they learned about great (place your identity here) artists through your site. Not all of her followers are buying her rant.
But…but…but you have a nickname! She sure got you there. ????
December 20, 2020 @ 10:57 am
So your saying that Trigger Triggered her! Hah!
December 20, 2020 @ 10:39 am
Well, I could be wrong but I believe that diversity was an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era.
December 20, 2020 @ 4:59 pm
Was also Roy Rogers horse!
December 20, 2020 @ 10:43 am
Ugh, her comment was way over the top. As someone who has frequently criticized your posts about people involved in this as being hyperbolic I find this entirely exasperating. The time you make a valid point in a reasonable way they lose their collective shit and make ridiculous claims.
But there is a problem here I think you fail to understand, acknowledge, and alter at your own peril. Your valid point here has been about them failing to account for the effects of their influence when making public claims. But in your frequently snippy and hyperbolic critiques of them you set off particular kinds of people who do specifically like to harass women. I know this is not your intent but it happens nonetheless. It’s a sloppy effect of sloppy rhetoric about “existential threats to country music” and whatnot. Too many molehills are made into mountains and some of your readers get excited and go after them. They see this as a proxy war and feel justified and doing the same.
I wish everyone would knock it off before it gets uglier. I want to read about music not what upsets you all about each other.
December 20, 2020 @ 11:01 am
Not even sure how it’s possible to “harass” anyone online.
December 20, 2020 @ 11:52 am
…huh?
December 20, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
Well, how do you?
I’ve never heard an accusation of online “harassment” that wasn’t some idiot moaning about being criticised.
December 21, 2020 @ 7:43 pm
Well, then you haven’t been reading much.
Not that any of this happened HERE, but on-line harassment is a huge issue, including threats, revealing personal information, posting nude or compromising photos of the target, all the way up to soliciting strangers to visit a woman and sexually assault her, in order to fulfill her “ra pe fantsay.” All that has happened and been widely reported on.
That’s why the posting by Ms. Price is so pernicious. By not specifying anything, she invites people to speculate that she’s calling out K “T” C for that sort of activity.
December 20, 2020 @ 11:57 am
Yup – I think Trigger’s a doof about a lot of this stuff, but it’s pretty clearly coming from a place of ignorance, rather than malice.
And, unless there’s something going on behind the scenes, his “harassment” of Margo Price over the years boils down to “She’s a great talent who hasn’t managed to translate her sound to the studio.”
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if he *is* causing a brigade of trolls to descend on these women, any time he has a back-and-forth with them, which could very much explain their distaste for him.
December 20, 2020 @ 1:42 pm
I think Margo’s mouth is going off entirely because Marissa Moss and Lorie Liebig are big boosters and friends of her’s. The behind the scenes stuff appears to include private and twitter exchanges that have very much rubbed some people the wrong way. That probably means that Margo is not going to be the last one at that level to do this. I’ve been seeing increasingly vitriolic commentary directed at him from various folks in those circles. Much of it is unfair but some of it is accurate and earned.
December 20, 2020 @ 1:49 pm
I’ll say straight up that I’d never have heard of Margo Price if it weren’t for this site. Honestly, I don’t think she’s that great, despite a few good songs, but I’m glad I got the chance to find out.
What I really respect about you, Trig, is that you welcome everyone that loves country music. Online, you get the left-wing Americana crowd who often seem to want to remake everything in their own image, then you get the people who go “I used to like Willie Nelson till this year when I found out he was a Democrat!!!” I don’t know of any other site that caters for both those groups and the rest of us besides.
They don’t like you because you speak your mind, but you’ve been cancelled by bigger names in the past, so keep on keeping on.
December 20, 2020 @ 2:30 pm
“ you set off particular kinds of people who do specifically like to harass women. I know this is not your intent but it happens nonetheless.”
Any substantial, concrete examples of this?
December 20, 2020 @ 10:48 am
Back in 2011, I went on the Cayamo music cruise. One of the headliners was Brandi Carlile, whose music I didn’t know. So I bought The Story and Give Up the Ghost beforehand to get some familiarity with her music. I liked them OK but did love her big rock voice. I enjoyed her performances on the cruise (which included her set. dueting with John Prine on In Spite of Ourselves, and singing with The Indigo Girls). But I ended up trading in those two albums eventually. I think maybe I thought of them as a bit on the lightweight side from a rock perspective for me personally at the time. But it was your review of The Firewatcher’s Daughter that was the catalyst for me giving her music another look. Bought it and enjoyed it. Bought By the Way, I Forgive You when it came out. Then picked up Bear Creek and even bought The Story again. I’m a Brandi Carlile fan now. And I have you to thank for that.
December 20, 2020 @ 10:55 am
Thanks for reading Jack.
December 23, 2020 @ 5:56 am
I have been a fan of Brandi for a long time. If it wasn’t for itunes recommendation “if you like this artist, you may like..” when I was buying a Patty Griffin record in 2006 – who knows when I would have discovered her. Make sure you get her debut album, it is still her best.
December 20, 2020 @ 11:40 am
If not for SCM Margo would still be a nobody in my world. I wouldn’t have tried Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, and then purchased it and her EP if I hadn’t first encountered her work on this site. The first listen of MFD gave me the notion that we wouldn’t be political friends, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. But, apparently she values strife over tolerance. I’m sorry if I soiled her soul with my filthy money. It won’t happen again.
December 20, 2020 @ 12:39 pm
Um… I don’t quite know what the hell to take of that comment other than she left out sexist… Now I feel compelled to cancel Margo Price from my catalog… I’ll probably simmer down in a week… but what the holy hell is she talking about? And where is she being informed of this nonsense and by whom?
Is she just trying to bring more traffic to your site? Who knows it was end up helping all these artists you talk about in some weird by-product kind of way.
Frankly, you are the only one I know writing intelligently about these topics in regards to country music. And THE ONLY person I’ve found discussing the Mickey Guyton/Highwomen incident, period.
I’m sure you are not worried about being “cancelled” but this is probably not the headache you needed to end 2020 on.
Cheers
December 20, 2020 @ 1:21 pm
Trig,
The more you apologize and and try to prove yourself to them, the worse it’s going to get for you.
I advise you to stop now. Seriously, stop. It’s pathetic.
December 20, 2020 @ 1:33 pm
Yes Trigger. I agree with King Honky. Give her the finger and move on. Or SUE her.
December 20, 2020 @ 2:25 pm
Where did he apologize?
I don’t think he’s trying to get their approval, either. I think he’s appealing to reason with the more open minded people observing this. As he stated elsewhere this insular circle of journalists have barely veiled self-interests. They won’t publicly change course. But, other people reading this exchange will see Trigger being objective and taking the high road. In doing so, he only makes them look more silly. Though I understand your point about apologizing, I don’t think that’s what he’s done here. Escalating the mud slinging would be childish, IMO.
December 20, 2020 @ 4:54 pm
Jake,
You’re right, he didn’t actually apologize in this article. But I remember times in the past where he has apologized for stuff similar to this, and that’s what was in my mind when I was typing my comment. I was lumping together past SJW attacks on trigger with this SJW attack on trigger and his reactions to them.
My point remains though; trying to win these people over, or trying to prove that you’re not what they think you are, is the worst thing you can possibly do. Because unless you align with their views 100%, you ARE what they think you are.
Your options are to cave to them, or, to tweet them a pic of your hairy, bare butthole.
As for the “other people reading” you mention. If Trigger has done nothing that he’s been accused of, and there’s no evidence he has, why should he have to prove that to anyone? If you read a tweet from one of these cringe fringe celebrities about Trigger, and you wonder if it’s true, why don’t you ask him, or take the time to browse his site. Those are the things that rational, reasonable people would do. Anybody who wouldn’t do those things is part of the problem, and the onus is on them to find their own way to reality. Society should not have to be the perpetual victims of the emotional, non-thinking class, by constantly explaining ourselves to them, or apologizing to them for things we didn’t do, or for their misunderstandings of things we did do.
Until Trigger decides to stand up for himself, he’ll stay under attack indefinitely, and it’ll get worse.
By the way, Jake, you’re a pedophile; no I don’t have evidence. Prove me wrong.
December 20, 2020 @ 4:57 pm
P.S. Jake: You’re one of the few people I take seriously enough to spend time responding to. You should be proud.????
December 20, 2020 @ 8:01 pm
Awww look at me, super proud!
I don’t fully disagree with you. There’s a time and a place for being an ass back to someone or for just not caring. But we also have to realize that we are both anonymous posters. This isn’t out living, nor our reputation….so it’s easy for us to say. I do understand what you’re saying though, just don’t agree with your approach in this case, and it’s not like Trigger is groveling or on his knees here. Instead of responding to ad hominem non-sense with emotional BS, he kept his cool and objectively proved her wrong. Despite some “claiming victory,” in the eyes of anyone with half a brain, he’s the bigger person here. Sometimes that goes a lot further, for whatever it’s worth.
December 21, 2020 @ 10:46 am
I agree in the these days it is B&W you can’t be gray on anything. Or you get canceled by one side or the other. I thing to do now that these articles have been posted is to just keep writing reviews and articles and showcasing women (and men) of talent. Keep on trickin’ as it were. That will be the best middle finger.
These cancel culture people will wear themselves out eventually because it’s exhausting be outraged all the time.
December 20, 2020 @ 3:42 pm
If it’s so “pathetic” and you don’t like how he writes his articles, why don’t you go find another site to comment on?
December 20, 2020 @ 2:24 pm
I always wonder why these people lump racists and homophobes into the same category. Isn’t it racist to assume that black people are cool with gays? I bet there are plenty of homophobic meicans or black people or whatever. I bet there are plenty of racist homos as well.
December 21, 2020 @ 10:48 am
As a queer yes, there is a huge problem in the GBTQ with racism. But you start getting into the weeds a and it all gets gray and then you can’t just take these hard lined obnoxious positions without being bullheaded and stupid because those gray areas should be forcing you to think and discuss in ways that don’t allow you to just cancel people.
December 20, 2020 @ 3:43 pm
I get why Trigger wrote this article but for anyone who reads this site with any regularity it is completely unnecessary. Fuck appeasing these sorts
December 20, 2020 @ 5:06 pm
The only reason I posted these articles was to aggregate information into one place, so the next time someone calls me a misogynist, racist, or homophobe, who only promotes white artists, with a quick cut and paste of a URL, I can refute that claim. I didn’t post links to this stuff on Facebook, and if it was easy, I wouldn’t have even put it on the home page. I put it together to post it on Twitter.
December 20, 2020 @ 3:54 pm
I’m not sure whether this non-country musician Margo Price is actually referring to you
or shitty people in comment section.
December 20, 2020 @ 6:07 pm
I saw someone on Twitter reply that Trig has repeatedly made hateful comments about Brandi C.
“Brandi Carlile is exactly the type of strong-willed, vibrant and inventive female artist country music needs” – 2015
“Once again Brandi Carlile has proven why she is a gem of independent roots music, and an asset to the planet.” – 2018
So, so hateful.
I think the only major criticism of her here has been that they called “If She Ever Leaves” the “first gay country song,” which it’s not.
And then Trig got called a COVID denier.
“all mass gatherings should be universally condemned until we can get COVID-19 under control.” – November 10, 2020
“Make no mistake about it, and mincing no words, what Chase Rice did by allowing fans to congregate near the stage was unconscionable, irresponsible, and patently unfair to his fellow performers who have been following protocols in hope for falling COVID-19 numbers so they can resume touring as well. He deserves to be called out publicly.” – June 29, 2020.
“And even though the COVID-19 Public Shame Committee can overreact at times—and destroying people’s lives for minor offenses and never showing forgiveness while professing compassion and open-mindedness has become the new world sport—it’s still not a good look for a guy of Morgan Wallen’s status to be setting such bad examples, and on multiple points.” – October 8, 2020.
Yeah, definitely COVID denying. (Sarcasm)
I think I got dumber reading the Twitter thread,
December 20, 2020 @ 6:22 pm
If moving 470 miles from Illinois into East Nashville, purchasing a house there all the while the gentrification you and others like you caused make it impossible for the African American families of the neighborhood to be able to afford their rent, much less be home owners themselves, and then bragging on Twitter that you had enough money to buy a SECOND home “in the country for Christmas” in 2017, all the while calling other people “racist “ isn’t hypocritical, then I don’t know what is. How you act, and the consequences of your actions, is what actually determines who you are.
December 20, 2020 @ 8:31 pm
Well, perhaps that’s par for the course for a Woke farmer’s daughter. But maybe covering “WAP” bought back some cred..
December 22, 2020 @ 11:39 am
I personally experienced this in Charleston, South Carolina. Over a decade of literally 100+ people moving into town every day from out of State, and you wake up one day living in a shithole apartment paying almost a grand a month in pure rent, nowhere near downtown (where you used to live and where all of the jobs are) and it takes an hour to drive drive six miles to get to work every morning. But Joe Biden and Oprah are able to afford mansions on a local private island, so good for them.
December 20, 2020 @ 6:59 pm
i think margo is taking the anger she must feel not being in the highwomen and displacing it into creating some sort of online beef. i only know this guy from here, so i cannot speak to what he may say elsewhere, but i have not seen anything anti woman or misogynistic. i have not read anything waycist, anti LBGT, or unsupportive of anyone. i actually come here to get turned onto female artists and have been very happy with recommendations/album reviews.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-brit-taylors-real-me/
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-becky-warrens-the-sick-season/
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-alecia-nugents-the-old-side-of-town/
https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-petersens-the-enduring-bluegrass-family-band-gone-viral/
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-lauren-mascittis-god-made-a-woman/
i will concede the comment section can get a little hinky at times, and there may be some stuff in there. anyone who confuses a site owner with the comments randos on the internet post on their site is a goof. i wish people would find a way to get along instead of us finding things to fight about.
this shit popping off end of December shows 2020 is not done with us yet.
December 20, 2020 @ 7:11 pm
Hey Trigger, don’t let the bastards get you down. You have been about the most fair and even-handed journalist I have ever read. You have given negative reviews to those whom you champion and given props to those whose music you normally avoid. This cancel mob is getting out of control. All it takes is one loudmouth popping off with little or no evidence or reason to wreck someone who works hard to bring the truth to the forefront, and there are rarely repercussions. Quality music sites are as scarce as good record stores these days, but when you find one, you gotta support them as much as you can. Thanks for all you do and for depleting my bank account on a regular basis for music that I wouldn’t have heard otherwise.
December 20, 2020 @ 9:18 pm
I feel like this article is unnecessary. Why do you have to prove you like blacks and gay people (I hate the acronym). This won’t change the minds of the “woke” crowd.
December 20, 2020 @ 9:50 pm
This isn’t really an “article.” I just wanted to create a landing page to aggregate this information on so that when bullshit comes up, I’ve got ammunition on deck. I agree, nothing will ever be enough for some people, aside from my destruction.
December 20, 2020 @ 10:31 pm
As well as Grady Smith’s work, SCM is and will always be my definitive source for all things country music. I have so much respect for your work and the level of consideration you have consistently given to be fair and objective in everything you’ve published. You’ve got a lifelong reader here, sir. All the respect to you.
December 21, 2020 @ 12:17 am
Congrats Trig! You know you’re in the right when crazy people gets their panties in a bunch over imagined wrong-think. I’ve NEVER read anything by you that matches those accusation.
If you care, my perspective is this: SCM is trying to be objective. Everything today is politicized, either you’re left or right, and sadly the concencus amongst many of those leaning left is that objectivism is a rightwing dogwhistle. And those to the right considers everything that isn’t clearly leaning to the right, sjw propaganda. In other words the middle road is nowdays considered a social construction.
December 21, 2020 @ 1:13 am
There is no corner of the internet that is safe from the polarizing quagmire known as 2020. I have retreated to SCM repeatedly when I need a break from the divisive narrative that pervades the media. The articles featured here offer multifaceted coverage that allows the reader to consider different perspectives which is evidenced in the discourse in the comment section repeatedly. It is my hope that slanderous accusations like the one addressed here will not result in an edited, watered-down version of SCM in the future.
December 21, 2020 @ 6:55 am
Wow!
Just wait til all the haters come to this site and see you’ve awarded, arguably the most prestigious award, in Country music to an unapologetic young *man* who dresses like a *man*, sounds like a *man*, works like a “man*, lives like a *man* and makes REAL COUNTRY MUSIC, passionately.
The criticism has just begun-
Keep up the righteous effort, Kyle. The good guy always wins- the collective is never remembered- only the Individual.
December 21, 2020 @ 9:11 am
Trigger, I might not say this often but I appreciate you. I might not always agree with you but the fact that you are unafraid to call people out and also praise them is outstanding in this day and age. Keep up the good work
December 21, 2020 @ 9:37 am
Dammit Trigger quit triggering people. Don’t you know if you’re liberal your music is automatically amazing and better than everyone else’s.
December 21, 2020 @ 9:46 am
If Margo Price has a complaint against, Trig or this site, she should say what is is, instead of tweeting out some vague accusation with no evident basis.
“anyone still sharing/supporting this small minded man is lost.”
Tell me WHY, Margo. Am I supposed to stop visiting a site simply because YOU say so?
BTW, the first place I ever heard of you or lots of other Americana artists is here.
I only know Kyle from what he posts on this site. There are a lot of opinions he offers that I tend not to agree with, but on issues of race, gender, LGBTQ diversity, he almost always comes down on the progressive side–certainly when it comes to equality for women artists.
December 21, 2020 @ 6:12 pm
I didn’t know anything about Margo Price except her music does nothing for me. When I’m listening on Amazon music and one of her songs comes on I skip it. She’s a lightweight compared to Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Allison Krause, and the second tier women singer/songwriters. I don’t think she’s even third tier is she? Who cares what she thinks.
December 22, 2020 @ 6:10 am
Fuck Marco Price
December 22, 2020 @ 1:07 pm
LOL, another reason to write off Margo Price, as if I needed one.
December 22, 2020 @ 7:10 pm
I hope Trigger gains some new readers over this unfortunate situation. Major drawback of the internet – it divides people into echo chambers without them even realizing that. Great feature of the internet – it gives anyone who wants it a voice for their passions and interests, and fortunately Trigger has shared his country music knowledge and passion with the rest of us.
December 23, 2020 @ 6:16 am
This is easy. Just read this remarkably in-depth article on Sarah Shook. It is excellent. Thank you Trigger for introducing me to this band and keep doing what you do.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/rise-of-sarah-shook-and-the-disarmers/
December 23, 2020 @ 7:03 pm
Well now, hmn. Wonder how that bee got in her bonnet?
I’ve learned more about country artists of all types that I would never hear on country radio or learn about anywhere else.
I didn’t always like their songs or style, but I’d give ’em a shot.
I can’t imagine anyone who reads this site weekly or monthly seriously even thinking that garbage.
Weird.
From my view Trigger has always been about the musical content, lyrics and performances of songs, albums. Which is how it should be.
Anyway, keep yer head up Trigger.