January 2009 – Page 6 – Country Universe

Review: John Michael Montgomery, “Forever”

January 7, 2009 Kevin John Coyne 3

Hear It Again For the First Time

January 6, 2009 Kevin John Coyne 48

Yesterday while driving, “Maybe it Was Memphis” came on the radio. Pam Tillis gets decent rotation on XM, as do all of the nineties stars. It was that song that got me into country music

Single Review: Tim McGraw, “Nothin’ to Die For”

January 5, 2009 Guest Contributor 0

Country music history is littered with stormy relationships. Hank and Audrey. George and Tammy. Tim McGraw and Curb Records. With the seventh (!) single from his 2007 album, Let It Go, Curb is milking the

Single Review: Jimmy Wayne, “I Will”

January 5, 2009 Guest Contributor 16

Miley Cyrus’ boyfriend, Justin Gaston, survived two rounds of NBC’s Nashville Star this past summer; the L.A. underwear model failed to turn his golden-boy good looks into a John Rich recording session. If Gaston’s sniffing

Single Review: Keith Anderson, “She Could’ve Been Mine”

January 5, 2009 Guest Contributor 7

A slow-tempo song rehashing an old romance, “She Could’ve Been Mine” is an exhibition of Keith Anderson’s range; his falsettos that accompany its final fade are impressive, if superfluous. But a little dollop will do

Recommend A Track

January 4, 2009 Leeann Ward 23

Being someone who really doesn’t appreciate instrumental albums as much as I probably should, Brad Paisley’s latest instrumental project really hasn’t left a deep impression on me. I don’t hate it, but I don’t especially like

iPod Check: They Call it Country

January 3, 2009 Kevin John Coyne 32

We’re making iPod Check a weekly discussion feature this year, with a bit of a different spin each week. This week, check out the “Country” genre on your music list and post the first ten

Who Should We Discover in 2009?

January 2, 2009 Kevin John Coyne 25

Recommend an artist for us to discover in the early weeks of 2009, when releases are weak and resolutions are strong. I recommend Kim Richey: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvOyCr5wYo

It’s Not You. It’s Me.

January 2, 2009 Kevin John Coyne 7

Sort of how I’m feeling about html and css right now. Enjoy. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHK_HttgkmU

Discussion: New Year’s Resolutioning

January 1, 2009 Guest Contributor 13

Is the art of the New Year’s resolution still alive and well? Do these January 1 dreams ever come true? Questions that I won’t answer for you, but I know that quite many CU readers