The First Really Good Drinkin’ Song In A Long Time
Let’s not be cliché, but let’s do remember that along with trains, prison and mama etc. drinking is an essential story-line in the Country Music Songbook, and that the really fine drinking songs take a while to emerge. Here’s a brand new one, that’s...
Lipstick: The Good, The Bad, & Just The Right Shade of Red
What to make of Runaway Jane, a new Country-pop “Blond Band”…three gorgeous young women wearing “Daisy Dukes” and cowboy boots, who sound like the Dixie Chicks if the Dixie Chicks were proper young ladies instead of rebels, or Gretchen Wilson, if she was a Tri-Delt...
Couples With Chemistry
The lines between music genres continues to blur, as seen at last week's Grammy Awards, when Country superstars Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood debuted "The Fighter," a high energy, pop leaning, crowd pleasing duet about a guy pledging his devotion, that...
Sturgill Simpson, Music’s Mystery Man
The mystery singer/songwriter of the moment, Sturgill Simpson, just won a Grammy for “Best Country Album” despite the fact that he’s not really Country, and hardly anyone has ever heard of him. Difficult as it is to pinpoint his style, we’re going with...
A Sizzling Country/Pop Blend From Lady Antebellum
Right from the get-go, the trio known as Lady Antebellum have been Country Superstars. They began carving out their new and original sound a decade ago, and now they’ve got a catalog of diverse songs, with brilliant lyrics. Their latest is the up-tempo "You...
Country Star Says “Slow Down!”
An artist can’t go wrong with a song about how quickly time passes, considering that it’s an inevitable part of the human condition. From the Rolling Stones “Time Is On My Side ” to Willie Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away” to Jim Croce’s “Time in A Bottle,”...
What’s With the Tequila?
As long as men drink and dream about pretty women and a life on the beach, there will be a song about it, and odds are it will include tequila. In 1977 Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville” took its rightful place in the zeitgeist. He became a pop culture icon, tequila...
Country Song Is Wishing For A “Better Man”
Little Big Town, who hit it out of the park in 2015 with “Girl Crush,” a song that’s in a league of its own, which went #1 Country, charted on Adult Top 40, and was immediately added to my personal list of all time favorites, has a new song out, “Better Man,”...
Miranda Lambert At Her Most Country
It's not fun when I really like an artist, and s/he releases a song that I don't like at all, for example, "We Should Be Friends," Miranda Lambert's newest. I love Country music--and I really like Miranda Lambert, so I'm sorry that this current single from her album,...