Tyler Childers Headlines 3-Day Healing Appalachia Fest 2023
Last Thursday through Saturday (Sept. 21-23) over 16,000 thousand people came together at the State Fair Grounds in beautiful Lewisburg, West Virginia to celebrate recovery, raise awareness and promote...
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Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Isbell, CWG Team for Arena Shows
The Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Charles Wesley Godwin have have all released landmark albums in 2023. They've decided to join forces to help kick off 2024. The post...
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The Confounding Dichotomy of Jason Isbell
Most definitely, Jason Isbell and his new album Weathervanes with his backing band The 400 Unit is worthy of Grammy consideration. Most anyone with an objective ear would conclude this. But for some,...
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Bassist Jimbo Hart Leaves Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit
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...
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Saving Country Music’s 2023 Album of the Year Nominees
'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...
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Saving Country Music’s 2023 SONG of the Year Nominees
A Song of the Year nominee needs to be something that can change a life, change someone's perspective, or change the world we live in. Yes, this is all quite a tall order, but this is where a good song...
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The Saving Country Music 2023 Song of the Year
Perhaps the best barometer of how people are doing boils down to one very simple question: Are people living, or are people dying? When it comes to life expectancy in the United States, the answer is...
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The Saving Country Music 2023 Album of the Year
2023 is one of those years when the competition for Album of the Year is so fierce, the only fair way to adjudicate the matter is to count down the top contenders, all of whom could have won it...
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Evan Felker of the Turnpike Troubadours to Play Rare Club Residency
Evan Felker has gone on acoustic tours in the past, including with Rhett Miller of the Old 97s. But the primary songwriter for the Turnpike Troubadours hasn't played a space this intimate in years. The...
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On the Implosion of Pitchfork
If your pastime is crashing nerdy little music websites, then you've probably caught wind about the bloodletting at the indie rock-centric review site Pitchfork this week, and how it's being folded...
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Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandy Clark Early 2024 Grammy Winners
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are once again Grammy winners. So are Grammy favorites Brandi Carlile and Brandy Clark. Chris Stapleton is the king of the country categories so far. And Allison Russel is...
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Jason Isbell Criticized by Justin Townes Earle’s Widow for Song
Ever since the release of Jason Isbell's Grammy award-winning 2023 album Weathervanes, there have been concerns swirling around the song "When We Were Close" that was written as a de facto "tribute" to...
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Justin Townes Earle’s Widow Clarifies Concerns with Jason Isbell Song
On Friday, April 12th, the widow of Americana singer and songwriter Justin Townes Earle took to social media to let her thoughts be known about the song "When We Were Close," written and performed by...
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Zach Bryan Pissed that “Pink Skies” Sent to Pop Radio
On Tuesday, May 28th, it was reported that "Pink Skies" was sent to Top 40 pop radio as a single, and it seems like Zach Bryan is not too happy about it. Zach might not be too happy with his label...
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Ryan Adams Calls Out Jason Isbell at Show in Raleigh
At a show on June 21st at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, NC, Ryan Adams called out Jason Isbell in an impromptu song possibly called "Don't Forget The Laundry...
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The Continuing Mystery of Cory Barron’s Death at a Country Concert
As the concert ended, the friends of Cory Barron couldn't find him. They searched the entire ballpark, hung around to see if he would show up, called friends to confirm he didn't leave with someone...
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Album Review – Adeem The Artist’s “White Trash Revelry”
There was most certainly a time in country music---and even in it's more open-minded and less commercially-concerned cousin of Americana---where not fitting neatly within the gender binary would be a...
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This Zach Bryan vs. Rich O’Toole Thing
On December 18th after Zach Bryan had three of his songs featured on Season 5, Episode 7 of the Paramount series Yellowstone, singer and songwriter Rich O'Toole took to social media to say that Zach's...
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On Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof” Setting Country Radio Record
Over the Christmas/New Year holiday, Morgan Wallen's "You Proof" set a rather landmark achievement by becoming the first radio single in country music history to spend 10 weeks at #1---a record that...
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Get Drayton Farley on Your Radar Ahead of “Twenty On High”
If you can't get enough of that country/rock/roots sound emanating from Alabama and underpinning excellently written songs that cut straight to the heart, you have little to no excuse to not sift...
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