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Picking the CMA Nominees: Male Vocalist of the Year
If turnover has been slow in the Entertainer category, it’s been nothing less than glacial in the Male Vocalist race. Over the past ten years, only eleven men have received nominations. Four of those...
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Crunching the Numbers: January 2011
Feel that chill in the air? It’s not just climate change, friends. The music industry is suffering through historic lows in record sales, the worst since SoundScan started tallying them in 1991. How...
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Single Review: Josh Turner, “I Wouldn’t Be a Man”
I wouldn’t be a man if I didn’t feel like this I wouldn’t be a man if a woman like you Was anything I could resist I’d have to be from another planet Where love doesn’t exist I wouldn’t be a man if I...
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Single Review: Scotty McCreery, “I Love You This Big”
A preface for the Scottyfolk: I didn’t watch this season of American Idol, so this single is my first exposure to its winner – no backstory, no jilted favorite of mine he beat. The only metric I’m...
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Album Review: Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day
Scotty McCreery Clear as Day In listening to American Idol winner Scotty McCreery’s debut album, it becomes all too clear that either McCreery is being carefully reared by the unabashedly...
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Single Review: Josh Turner, “Time is Love”
Remember the first time that you heard Josh Turner? You must have been in awe of that baritone. Here’s a guy who can sing deeper than the rest without sacrificing tone and nuance. Turner’s had plenty...
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Single Review: Clay Walker, “Like We Never Said Goodbye”
As the title suggests, Clay Walker’s latest single plays out like the alternate ending to Faith Hill and Tim McGraw’s fiery “Like We Never Loved At All.” Whereas the latter finds the woman agonizing...
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We Need to Have a Little Talk about Randy Travis
In a year that has already brought the deaths of immortal talents like George Jones, Slim Whitman, Patti Page, and Jack Greene, not to mention the untimely loss of Mindy McCready, it is understandable...
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Song Talk: Music that Moves Me
My local Public Radio station has a wonderful series called Music that Moves Me, which was conceived and originally produced by the inimitable Suzanne Nance who has now (sadly for us, but happily for...
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Single Review: Josh Turner, “Lay Low”
“Lay Low” Josh Turner Written by Ross Copperman, Tony Martin and Mark Nesler Good for Josh Turner for sticking with his neo-traditional country sound, even though he’s in the oft talked about minority...
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Album Review: Ralph Stanley & Friends, Man of Constant Sorrow
Ralph Stanley & Friends Man of Constant Sorrow Perhaps the uninitiated may have “discovered” Ralph Stanley through his participation in the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack, For those who have...
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Daily Top Five: Better With Time
As we grow older, our tastes change and some would even say that they mature. Such is the case with me, as you’ll see in the list below. There was a time when I did not like these artists (gasp!) and a...
View ArticleDaily Top Five: Favorite Country Name Drop Songs
Ah…Remember the days when a name drop of a country singer actually meant something and made sense within the context of the song? Before Jason Aldean’s gratuitous and inane name checks of Johnny Cash,...
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Sunday Selections: December 13, 2015
This week’s round-up is a bit light on Chris Stapleton news… if only because we already have a post about the Grammy nominations, where he scored a total of 4 nods, including the all-genre Album Of The...
View ArticleSingle Review: Josh Turner, “Hometown Girl”
“Hometown Girl” Josh Turner Written by Marc Beeson and Daniel Tashian In an alternate universe, Josh Turner should be square in the middle of a long string of neo-traditionalist hit songs and albums....
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Sunday Selections: June 12, 2016
What would the Dixie Chicks’ first US tour in a decade be without at least a little bit of controversy? Really, is it any surprise that the trio have declined to make nice as they’ve embarked on their...
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Sunday Selections: September 11, 2016
It’s Trio Collection release week, y’all! So we took last week off for the Labor Day holiday weekend, which means that we didn’t cover Sturgill Simpson’s Facebook posts about the ACM Awards, Merle...
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Sunday Selections: September 25, 2016
Fly high, friend. Country music has lost some true icons in 2016– Merle Haggard, “Doctor” Ralph Stanley, Jean Shepard just earlier today– but there was a death in the country music community this week...
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Sunday Selections: October 16, 2016
We’re only 23 days away from the election, y’all. Presidential politics and country music news don’t intersect all too often, but this week marked a couple of noteworthy exceptions. Republican nominee...
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CMA Flashback: Male Vocalist of the Year
Our CMA Flashback series continues with the Male Vocalist of the Year category. For a look back at the other major categories, visit our CMA Awards page. 2016 Dierks Bentley Eric Church Tim McGraw...
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