Yearly Archives: 2025

Despite topping Billboard’s Country Albums chart, earning her first Grammy award for Album of the Year, and headlining the highest-grossing country tour ever, Cowboy Carter, the country music album by Beyoncé, wasn’t embraced by Nashville.  Both the CMA Awards and the ACM Awards snubbed the album. She has also faced criticism from Oliver Anthony, Hannah Dasher, and, even more infamously, Gavin Adcock. Then […]

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Some of country’s most legendary artists have gone to war against their own record labels. Continue reading…

“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for all the right reasons.  Langley co-wrote the track with Miranda Lambert, Joybeth Taylor, and Luke Dick. It’s about a woman on the losing side of a love triangle, and there are plenty of reasons why it’s a hit. For one, it’s […]

The post This Mash-up of “Choosin’ Texas” With This 80s Holiday Classic Is the Christmas Gift We Didn’t Know We Wanted appeared first on Wide Open Country.

The country legend’s acting resume was surprisingly thin. Continue reading…

Pauline Potter, who rose to fame in the third season of TLC’s My 600-lb Life, has died at the age of 62.  Her son, Dillon, announced in a YouTube video that she died on Thanksgiving Day. This news comes after both Pauline and Dillon were injured in a car accident in January. The incident totaled their car […]

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A representative for the Church of Satan is responding to the controversy. Continue reading…

45 RPM (Reasons to Purchase Music) for 2025 Musically, 2025 stands out for two reasons – 1) the indie country boom and 2) being backloaded as hell. Eight of my top albums came out in the second half of the year, and four of them (plus several of my top songs) could comfortably be categorized […]

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photo of Charlie Peacock with virtuoso bassist Erik Kleven, American River, Sacramento, CA 1981 by Bob Cheevers Charlie Peacock Reflects on The Lifelong Impact of Working with David Kahne on The Kahne Sessions 1980-81 In October of this year, Grammy-winning producer, musician, author, and solo artist Charlie Peacock released The Kahne Sessions 1980-81, a digital-only […]

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Now it’s time to give the WORST offerings in “country” music their fair due. And no, we’re not holding back our feelings at all. We’re rearing back and letting ’em have it.

The post The Worst New “Country” Songs of 2025 first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Last New Year’s Eve, more than a dozen performers took the stage to help ring in a new year. Continue reading…