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42nd CMA Awards Predictions

42nd CMA Awards Predictions

Handicapping the CMA Awards this year is a difficult task due the bizarre nominations in categories like Album and New Artist, but the staff has done what they can to predict the outcome. Entertainer of the Year Everyone (other than Ben) seems to agree this is the year Brad Paisley will break through... Read more


Thoughts on the 42nd CMA Awards

Thoughts on the 42nd CMA Awards

It was a dark and stormy night…oh wait, wrong story. If you will, remember back to one year ago when the CMA announced that the Hall of Fame induction ceremony would no longer take place during the televised awards broadcast and that they had no plans to acknowledge the inductees. Their reasoning... Read more


Your Take: Visionary Collaborations

Your Take: Visionary Collaborations

Collaboration between established artists has created some interesting and successful pairings throughout country music’s lifetime. Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, Alan Jackson and George Strait, and with the advent of technology... Read more




See also

Sep 7 Alan Jackson - “Country Boy”
Alan Jackson - “Country Boy”
That little white flag flapping in the wind when “Country Boy” comes on the radio is Alan Jackson surrendering to the mediocrity of contemporary country music. It’s four minutes of triviality...
May 8 Alan Jackson - “Good Time”
Alan Jackson - “Good Time”
I’ve long thought that the preponderance of “list songs” on modern country radio is a consequence of the co-writing epidemic and the general talentlessness of too many Nashville hit-makers. Leave...
Mar 20 Album Review: Alan Jackson - Good Time
Album Review: Alan Jackson - Good Time
In 71 minutes, Alan Jackson’s latest album, Good Time, takes us back four years, to the last batch of his traditional variety of country music, What I Do. It’s good to have him back. That’s not to...
Mar 13 Carrie Underwood - “Last Name”
Carrie Underwood - “Last Name”
Suprise, suprise. Carrie Underwood’s third single, “Last Name,” from Carnival Ride is being released and it’s the third straight co-write by Miss Underwood and she only shares four...
Mar 7 Ride Along For Taylor Swift’s Hendersonville Boy Tour
Ride Along For Taylor Swift’s Hendersonville Boy Tour
Jody Rosen of Blender magazine had a chance to ride around with Taylor Swift in her Lexus and wrote an in-depth article on the teen phenom. Rosen calls the experience “Taylor’s Hendersonville...
Nov 18 Best Songs of October ‘08
Nov 5 Haggard Is In Good Spirits After Sugery to Remove Lung Tumor
Oct 31 Mindy McCready Uses Her ‘Get Out of Jail Early’ Card
Oct 17 In a Former Life, Reba McEntire Was a Man
Oct 14 ASCAP Honors Alan Jackson and Dave Berg with Songwriting Awards
Oct 7 Stonewall Jackson and Opry Settle Lawsuit
Oct 6 Dierks Bentley & Wife Welcome Daughter, Evalyn Day
Sep 29 Kenny Chesney Plans to Expand Personal Brand With A Line of Rum
Sep 18 Billy Joe Shaver Indicted In Shooting
Sep 17 CMA Announces Plans To Build Retirement Community for Musicians
Nov 20 Donnie Vondra - “If I Didn’t Love You”
Donnie Vondra - “If I Didn’t Love You”
Songwriters: Daryl Neil Burgess and Robert W. Terry, Jr. Some of today’s pop-country fare tries very hard to convince listeners of its legitimate country chops: Taking cues from David Allen Coe, some...
Nov 19 Album Review: Hank Williams Sr. - The Unreleased Recordings
Album Review: Hank Williams Sr. - The Unreleased Recordings
The fifteen-disc bootleg of the so-called “Mother’s Best Flour Show” recordings has been floating around the internet for nearly a decade now, while numerous lawsuits were duked out by Hank Jr...
Nov 19 Lance Miller - “Bacon Frying”
Lance Miller - “Bacon Frying”
Songwriters: Chuck Cannon, Gary Nicholson and Paul Overstreet. As contemporary country music seemingly gets wordier by the day, “Bacon Frying” is a charming country song that is beautiful for its simplicity...
Nov 18 Album Review: Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - “Rattlin’ Bones”
Album Review: Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - “Rattlin’ Bones”
Duets have a long and illustrious history in country music, but they are also some of the hardest songs to execute well. For every “Whiskey Lullaby,” there’s a “Barroom Buddie...
Nov 18 Kellie Pickler - “Best Days of Your Life”
Kellie Pickler - “Best Days of Your Life”
There’s a particular theme that runs through the core of Kellie Pickler’s music–it is often, when directed at members of the opposite sex, rather mean. “Best Days of Your Life,” co-written...
Nov 17 John Rich - “Another You”
John Rich - “Another You”
For a guy who is supposed to be a genius songwriter, John Rich sure does seem to be running out of ideas. World/Girl, Do/You, Out/Down–these are the best rhymes a three-time ASCAP Songwriter of the...
Nov 14 George Ducas - “Walk Through This World”
George Ducas - “Walk Through This World”
Songwriters: George Ducas and David Lee Murphy. A lot has changed in country music since George Ducas charted his sole top ten single in 1994. Traditional stalwarts Travis Tritt, the Judds, Clint Black...
Nov 14 Sarah Buxton - “Space”
Sarah Buxton - “Space”
Songwriters: Sarah Buxton, Lari White & Chuck Cannon. Sarah Buxton’s voice, starting off as little more than a whisper, is so intimate and close on “Space” that you can almost feel her breath...
Nov 12 Free DVD: Randy Travis - Christmas on the Pecos
Free DVD: Randy Travis - Christmas on the Pecos
Later tonight some of country music’s biggest names will be bringing home CMA bling. But what about you? Shouldn’t they share the love with you, the die-hard fans who buy records, go to show...

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