More Than Just Miranda Lambert and Anderson East Hooking Up
Forget all the sappy relationship stuff, and how it happened and where it might lead. Miranda Lambert ditching Blake Shelton and ending up with Anderson East might be the perfect illustration of the...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s 2015 Artist of the Year
To be a Saving Country Music Artist of the Year, you can't just be "good." It's not about releasing some great songs or a significant album in a given calendar year. You have to be committed to the...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s 2015 Album of the Year
Too often in music we tend to focus on the here and now, the young and the new. Who are the hot names that are rising up in the ranks? Who's going to make a big splash in music in the coming months and...
View ArticleDave Cobb Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal
Producer, guitar player, and songwriter Dave Cobb has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music. The deal was announced Monday (1-4), and also includes the formation of...
View ArticleNew Sturgill Simpson Album Coming in the Summer of 2016
Sturgill Simpson fans will have to wait patiently for another six months or so for new music for the Kentucky songwriter. But rest assured, new music is on the way. The summer of 2016 seems a long way...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Anderson East’s “Delilah”
The reason an artist like Anderson East works, similarly to Leon Bridges and many others, is because he's got a evocative, old-school coolness about him that reminds folks of a time when music and life...
View Article2016 Could Be 1975 All Over Again in Country Music
The country music Outlaw movement didn't happen overnight either. It took years and years of gnawing away at the obtrusive oligarchy that had set up shop on Music Row to get to the point where many of...
View ArticleSong Review – Dierks Bentley’s “Somewhere on a Beach”
Dierks has been doing this his entire career, and when his new album comes out, it will still be one of the better ones released in mainstream country all year I bet. But for now, he needs a bullet on...
View ArticleShut Up & Be Happy Jason Isbell is Sharing the Stage with Luke Bryan and Sam...
So what in the hell are well-versed country and Americana fans who finds themselves in stiff opposition to folks like Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt supposed to feel about ol' Isbell sharing the stage with...
View ArticleWynonna Judd Joined by Jason Isbell on “Things That I Lean On”
"Things That I Lean On" begins by acquiescing to the frailties of being human, and then singing the praises of the gifts life bestows to overcome them. Written by Travis Meadows and Daniel Sanders, it...
View ArticleChris Stapleton Proves Why Awards Shows Matter
"Awards shows don't matter." This is the bill of goods fans of true country music, and fans of independent music have been forced to sell themselves for years as a consolation prize for continuously...
View ArticleIt Happened in Houston: How The City Is Becoming the Stolen Music Gear...
Along with the frequency of incidents involving bands being burglarized, it's been the brazenness of the thieves, and the high-profile nature of the incidents that has put Houston in people's...
View ArticleGreen River Ordinance Excluded from Billboard Country Charts While Other Acts...
For the last couple of years country fans have been questioning how chart managers for Billboard and other entities could listen to certain songs or performers and consider them country in the...
View ArticleHow Whitey Morgan Is Fulfilling The Promise of Underground Country
Like a slow moving thunder roll, Whitey Morgan continues to tour, night in and night out, delivering crisp, throbbing performances every time that leave crowds embedded with Whitey passion in every...
View ArticleJason Isbell & Sturgill Simpson Share Stage in Tuscaloosa for “Amarillo Highway”
Beyond sharing bills, big rocketing career trajectories, and both employing the services of super producer Dave Cobb, the two artists appear to have a greater kinship off the stage. But for whatever...
View ArticleThe Surprising #1 Albums That Trumped Toby Keith in 2015
"18,700": This is the number of albums Toby Keith sold upon the debut of his new record 35 MPH Town, and it got me to thinking, which artists and bands have beat that number in a year of unprecedented...
View ArticleBack To The Future: 1985 and the Year Country Music Died
So what's to learn from hitching a ride in Marty McFly's time machine and traveling back to 1985? That the problems country music is facing today are virtually the same ones that were being faced 30...
View ArticleDallas Cowboys Face Another “Devastating” Season Setback After Luke Bryan...
In a season that started out so promising for America's Team, including a 2-0 record with key wins against division opponents and a roster that some believed was good enough to make another run at the...
View ArticleHey Tom Petty, So How About That Chris Stapleton Collaboration?
Heading into the final couple of months of 2015, there may not be a hotter name in country music among critics and distinguished listeners than Chris Stapleton. The long wait for his often-rumored and...
View Article“Dallas Observer” Mischaracterizes Merle Haggard Comments in Support of...
It's one thing to mischaracterize my opinions, or the opinions of Chris Stapleton fans, or concerned country music fans in general. It's another thing to use the name and visage of a respected country...
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