Single Review: Trace Adkins, "Them Lips (On Mine)"
This will make a great commercial for Pringles potato chips or something.
Just animate the chips to dance and sing. It’ll be the California Raisins all over again.
Year: 2012
100 Greatest Men: #53. Brooks & Dunn
100 Greatest Men: The Complete List
The very definition of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, two struggling solo artists came together in the nineties and became the most c0mmercially successful duo in music history.
“Let There Be Cowgirls” = “Got My Country On,” Part 2
Thank You, Chris Neal
The country music community has lost a true beacon this week with the passing of Chris Neal, a superlative journalist and ally to independent blogs like ours.
As a ten-year staff writer for Country Weekly and a contributor to the Village Voice, Nashville Scene, Performing Songwriter, The 9513, and other publications, Chris helped set the standard for modern country music commentary, combining clear-eyed observations with his trademark acerbic wit. In a decade of confounding change for the genre’s industry and sound, he was a fearless voice of reason, equally comfortable celebrating country’s evolution and – no other word will do – “facepalming” over its less endearing new habits. His recent work as Senior Editor of M Music & Musicians has only broadened his impact, delivering on his passion for all varieties of good music.
Single Review: Hunter Hayes, "Wanted"
With song titles like “Storm Warning” and “Rainy Season,” one might very well wonder if Hunter Hayes had at one time been an aspiring meteorologist. At any rate, the frosty-haired twenty-year-old has been gradually making inroads on country radio with the support of his hordes of cheering female fans.
So far, it’s a familiar story: A strong voice crying out for strong material.
Retro Single Review: Alan Jackson, "Livin' on Love"
1994 | Peak: #1
So catchy, so charming, and so full of little funny details that you can forgive him for ripping off “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane” so blatantly.