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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


The Malec Minute: Sugarland Lawsuit Sheds Light on Hall’s Departure

The Malec Minute: Sugarland Lawsuit Sheds Light on Hall’s Departure

Today’s news that former Sugarland member and co-founder Kristen Hall is suing her ex-mates, to the tune of $1.5 million, goes a long way towards providing a bit of context regarding of the Atlanta singer/songwriter’s sudden departure from the group. When Hall left Sugarland in early 2006... Read more




See also

Sugarland - “Already Gone”
Songwriters: Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles, and Bobby Pinson I gotta hand it to Sugarland and their management for knowing how to build up and maintain the hype for their latest album release, Love On...
Album Review:  Sugarland - Love on the Inside
Love on the Inside, the third studio release from rising superstar duo Sugarland, is a good example of an album of significantly less quality than the sum of its parts. With few exceptions, each track...
Sugarland - “All I Want to Do”
I’ll say this much about Sugarland: they’re not afraid to be pioneers. Unfortunately, as much as “Stay,” with its sparse, acoustic and percussion-less arrangement, was an anomalous example of a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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