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Ne-Yo Wants to be Country with New Song. But He’s No Alan Jackson
Ne-Yo has decided the only thing you really have to do to transition to country music is make a declarative statement proclaiming as much, and maybe bury a steel guitar way down in the mix. The post...
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Death Threats and Defections: 2026’s Rock The Country Fest
Where in previous years the Rock The Country announcements came with excitement by many and some eye rolls, this year was proceeded by widespread rebuke and condemnation of the performers. The post...
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Damn. This 2025 FairWell Fest Lineup is Lights Out
Tip your hat to the folks who curated the roster for the 2025 FareWell Fest in Redmond, Oregon, because it might be the best independent country lineup we've seen so far in 2025. Crowned by Tyler...
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2024 Two Step Inn Fest Proves The Future is Country
The rise of the independent country megafestival with support from '90s country stars has been one of the biggest illustrations for how significant, sustainable, and broad-based the resurgence of roots...
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Indie/’90s Country Megafestival “Two Step Inn” Returns for 2024
After 2023 sold out, you knew Two Step Inn would be returning for 2024. Returning it is, and with just as mouthwatering of a lineup as it had in 2023, but sans as many of the hip-hop wild cards. The...
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‘Bitter Southerner’ Posts False Timeline of Lil Nas X Removal
Once again a major periodical has presented a completely false timeline for the removal of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" from the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in an attempt to pin the inspiration...
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Song Review – Carrie Underwood’s “The Champion” ft. Ludacris
Context is everything here, and it's critically-important we regard what the end game with this song is. The impetus for Carrie Underwood's "The Champion" is to be a TV theme song for the Super Bowl on...
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Brad Paisley Rebelling Against Sony Music? My Ass.
Brad Paisley has been making quite the spectacle on Twitter over the last two days, claiming to be leaking bits and pieces of his upcoming album Moonshine In The Trunk against the will of his label...
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Most Embarrassing Moments in Country Music History
When looking at the historical timeline of country music, many times it is big events that set the wheels of change in motion, for the good and the bad. Whether it is intrusion of pop or rap into...
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How Hip-Hop Stole Country Music: The Arrival of the Mono-Genre
All of a sudden hip-hop influences are dominating the top of the country music charts, asserting just as much influence, if not more than indigenous country influences, with a bevy of new country rap...
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Uggh…That Ain’t Country (A Pictorial Revue Vol. 1)
If you've found you're eyeballs affixed to these very words, you've likely found yourself at some point trying to explain that you like country, but not that type of country. Once many artists get to...
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The Destruction of America’s Distinct Musical Dialects
When President Obama won re-election last Tuesday, he said in his speech that what makes America strong is not that it has the greatest wealth in the world, or because it has the strongest military, or...
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Taylor Swift Must Lead, Not Follow with Hip-Hop
It usually takes 6-9 months for the bloated machine of Music Row to realize and catch up on trends, but no doubt that within the next few months, we will begin to see more and more hip-hop infiltration...
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Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” (Review & Roast)
Jason Aldean's country-rap breakthrough hit "Dirt Road Anthem" is climbing the charts, and after the recent release of the video and his performance with Ludacris at the CMT Awards, I suspect it will...
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Country Taking Submissive Role To Rap in Mono-Genre
With Kid Rock hosting the CMT Awards, with country rapper Colt Ford performing, and with Jason Aldean and Ludacris closing the show out with a rap song, you can make the case that 15%-20% of the 2011...
View ArticleThe Descent of SNL, Austin City Limits, & The Rolling Stone (A rant)
So on Saturday night, I get a phone call from a friend who knows I like pop country about as much as getting a splintered board shoved up my ass, telling me that the perfume peddling Timberly McGraw is...
View ArticleBrad Paisley Rebelling Against Sony Music? My Ass.
Brad Paisley has been making quite the spectacle on Twitter over the last two days, claiming to be leaking bits and pieces of his upcoming album Moonshine In The Trunk against the will of his label...
View ArticleMost Embarrassing Moments in Country Music History
When looking at the historical timeline of country music, many times it is big events that set the wheels of change in motion, for the good and the bad. Whether it is intrusion of pop or rap into...
View ArticleHow Hip-Hop Stole Country Music: The Arrival of the Mono-Genre
All of a sudden hip-hop influences are dominating the top of the country music charts, asserting just as much influence, if not more than indigenous country influences, with a bevy of new country rap...
View ArticleUggh…That Ain’t Country (A Pictorial Revue Vol. 1)
If you've found you're eyeballs affixed to these very words, you've likely found yourself at some point trying to explain that you like country, but not that type of country. Once many artists get to...
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