![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
Articles by Jonathan Keefe
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
Single Review: Lee Ann Womack, “The Way I’m Livin'”
It’s always fascinating to see how a recording artist responds once her days as a consistent hit-maker have passed: While some chase the latest trends in an effort to remain commercially relevant, others embrace their newfound creative freedom and challenge themselves to add something meaningful to both their own artistic legacy and to the country genre itself.
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
Single Review: Chase Rice, “Ready Set Roll”
He may have been the runner-up on one of the weakest seasons of Survivor (finishing second to
this strategic powerhouse), but Chase Rice has beaten tough competition from the likes of Jason Aldean’s “1994,” Parmalee’s “Carolina,” Ashton Shepherd’s “This is America,” Blake Shelton’s “Boys Round Here,” Krystal Keith’s “Daddy Dance with Me,” and Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night” for the title of 2013’s worst country single.
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)
Single Review: Lady Antebellum, "Downtown"
Credit where credit is due: After a run of two full albums’ worth of singles that were each exponentially more tepid than the last, Lady Antebellum realized the urgent need for a course correction. “Downtown,” the lead single for the trio’s fourth album, may not be a return to the roots-rock sound of their promising debut, but it’s a definite, deliberate shift in style from the somnolent lite-AC pap that had become their signature. Lady A needed to do something different, and “Downtown” certainly is.
![No Picture](https://www.countryuniverse.net/wp-content/themes/mh-magazine/images/placeholder-medium.png)