Ronnie Dunn on the Time He Got in Trouble Over Morgan Wallen
‘Next thing ya know someone is making it look like an act of disrespect…not my intent at all,’ Dunn wrote. Continue reading…
When John Mellencamp Was Johnny Cougar, a Zappa/Beefheart Box, and More
Lacking clout when he entered the music business, John Mellencamp acquiesced to his manager’s insistence that he change his name to the ostensibly more marketable Johnny Cougar. But after he began to score hits, the Indiana native started billing himself as John Cougar Mellencamp before finally reverting to John Mellencamp. A new two-CD set called […]
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New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#176)
Consider this playlist like that cool older brother, crazy aunt or uncle, or papaw who turned you onto an entirely different world of music when you were younger that you otherwise would have never known about.
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Now & Then: Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram and the reach of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Charley Crockett’s Age of the Ram arrives as the third and final entry in his Sagebrush Trilogy, a 20-song, 45-minute set built around the outlaw figure Billy McLane and cut again with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles. The obvious move would be to compare it to some other modern revivalist country record, but Crockett is aiming farther back than that. This album is trying to turn country songs into a movie, or maybe into the memory of one, and that points straight to Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, the 1959 western cornerstone that helped teach later songwriters how to make myth feel personal.
Eric Church Explains How He Broke His Foot
‘Tonight, what I lack in mobility I’m gonna make up in passion,’ Eric Church joked with the crowd as he explained the story behind his broken foot. Continue reading…
‘Duck Dynasty’: Sadie Robertson Reveals Her Baby Daughter Choked
Sadie Robertson Huff is grateful for God and her knowledge of CPR after her infant daughter, Kit, suffered a terrifying choking incident at home. Continue reading…
Ella Langley Bad Haircut Led to Signature Look, Career Moment
The “Choosin’ Texas” singer revealed that a quick haircut before a show didn’t go how she planned — but it ended up sticking in a big way. Continue reading…
Interview: Jenn Grinels “Always on the Run”
Jenn Grinels “Always on the Run” (photo by Rebecca Boyd) Jenn Grinels has a new album coming out later this year with some Western influences and beautiful West Coast imagery, Western Heart. Ahead of the album’s release, Jenn has just released a new song “Always on the Run” with thoughtful lines: “Cobblestones and empty streets, […]
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Watch The Hilarious Moment Eric Church Realizes He Forgot His Signature Sunglasses On Stage In Tampa
I think Chief is ready for a break. Eric Church is wrapping up his 46-date Free the Machine Tour tonight, and he’s already limping to the finish line thanks to a broken foot that he suffered earlier this week after losing a fight with a suitcase. But tonight, on the last show of the tour at Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida, Church walked out on stage with another noticeable difference: He wasn’t wearing his signature shades. Church is well known for […]
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