Merle Haggard Tribute Concert to Finally Be Released
Unless you were there in person, you missed it. But now we'll all get the opportunity to see the tribute concert that transpired on April 6th, 2017, when a hefty list of musical talent all assembled at...
View ArticleLandmark Willie Nelson Tribute Concert to Finally Be Released
A once-in-a-lifetime event happened on January 12th, 2019 when a wide-ranging assemblage of talent from country music and beyond came together at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to pay tribute to...
View ArticleChris Stapleton Adds New Dates, Cool Openers to Tour
Hot off of winning the ACM Album of the Year for his most recent release Starting Over, Chris Stapleton has added dates to his upcoming "All-American Roadshow" tour. Joining Chris Stapleton as always...
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Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Will Be One for the Ages
Not all of us will end up making it to 90. But we're all the beneficiaries of the fact that Willie Nelson (almost) has. On April 29th, Willie will officially turn 90 years old, and on that day and the...
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2024 Buckeye Country Superfest Offers Once-in-a-Lifetime Lineup
So much damn country music talent will be assembled all in one place, it very well my cause a rip in the country music space-time continuum, and Merle Haggard himself might waltz on out and sing "Mama...
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Big Names Coming Together for Keith Gattis Tribute Show
Over his 40 years in the trenches as a songwriter, player, and producer, Keith Gattis became a superstar in country music, if not to fans at large, then to his fellow performers, singers, songwriters,...
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Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Becomes Worthy Television Special (Review)
Many Willie songs were sung, some legendary collaborations ensued, Miranda Lambert's fringe was longer than Snoop Dogg's spliff, and pound for pound, it was more entertaining than any country music...
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Merle Haggard On Kennedy Center Honors / Willie’s Arrest
Tonight the Poet of the Common Man, Merle Haggard will be honored with a Kennedy Center Honors award for his contributions to American music. Well, actually he received the award on December 5th, but...
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Release of Controversial Unfinished Hank Williams Songs
The Rolling Stone has just reported that a long-rumored project pairing Bob Dylan and Jack White together to oversee the recording of an album of Hank Williams songs that were found without music in a...
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Sheryl Crow’s Rendition of Hank Williams’“Angel Mine”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Hank Williams ever recording any drunken sea shantys. I can't remember any Ol' Hank songs featuring trumpets, or classically-styled lilting mandolin parts...
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Album Review – Willie Nelson’s “Heroes”
This album is good both because it is Willie, and because it is good. After years of navigating through a gray area in his career and having to dabble with some record labels probably less able to do a...
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Hank Williams Legacy Recordings Field Guide
For years, the principals of the Hank Williams estate (Hank Jr. and Jett) were warring back and forth, and this kept the treasure trove of Hank Williams' legacy recordings relegated to bootlegs and...
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Sheryl Crow’s Country Move a Trojan Horse for Toilet Paper Stance
Sources close to the Sheryl Crow camp have confided in Saving Country Music that part of Sheryl's country move is politically motivated. Sheryl is a staunch environmentalist, and has championed...
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How Hip-Hop Stole Country Music: The Arrival of the Mono-Genre
All of a sudden hip-hop influences are dominating the top of the country music charts, asserting just as much influence, if not more than indigenous country influences, with a bevy of new country rap...
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Most Embarrassing Moments in Country Music History
When looking at the historical timeline of country music, many times it is big events that set the wheels of change in motion, for the good and the bad. Whether it is intrusion of pop or rap into...
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Sheryl Crow: “Country Is More Pop Than Pop Was When I Came Up”
"The country format is more pop than pop was when I came up two decades ago," Sheryl explained to Reuters late last week when being interviewed about her new album, illustrating the degree of country's...
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Vince Gill & Alan Jackson Show How To Grow Old Gracefully in Country
With 34 CMA Awards, over 20 Grammys, and and some 80 million records sold between the two, they both have seen their share of overwhelming commercial success, public notoriety, and peer recognition....
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Sheryl Crow’s “Feels Like Home” Only Country By Name
It's not that there aren't some token homages to mark her move into the country format, but overall, except for one song that we will get to in due course, there is very, very little contrast between...
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Season of Discontent: A Timeline of Country’s Recent Artist Criticism
Country music in the second half of 2013 is going through some of the most historic changes the format has ever seen. The ever-present erosion of what the term "country" defines has never been greater,...
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There’s Bigger Problems Than Justin Timberlake “Going Country”
Last week pop and R&B superstar Justin Timberlake helped stir the music pot by proposing that he might make a country record. Timberlake told Sirius XM's "The Highway" show: "I just did an...
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