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Review: Steve Azar, “You’re My Life”

August 28, 2008 Guest Contributor 6

Life as a singer-songwriter has run the gamut from major-league success to disappointing failure for Steve Azar. Azar first signed a record deal in 1995, and his most notable single “I Don’t Have To Be

George Strait, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”

August 26, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 12

MCA has decided to release George Strait’s “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” as a digital single. Originally an outtake from the Troubadour sessions, the song is already a top twenty hit for Kenny Chesney.

Mark Chesnutt, “(Come On In) The Whiskey’s Fine”

August 25, 2008 Leeann Ward 5

As has been noted countless times before, Mark Chesnutt has one of the most defined traditional voices in modern country music. He can sing a love song to melt the hardest heart or he can

Sugarland, “Already Gone”

August 25, 2008 Guest Contributor 18

Sugarland, riding the wave of their #1 album Love on the Inside, jumps right back on country radio’s wagon—with a waltz, no less. “Already Gone” seems to be an attempt to cleanse our palates from

SingleTree, "Is It Really Over Now?"

August 25, 2008 Guest Contributor 9

Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy loses girl. In this pensive ballad by new act SingleTree, a man questions whether his best efforts really mattered at all now that his world has fallen apart

Review: Darius Rucker, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”

August 22, 2008 Guest Contributor 11

The first country release from Darius Rucker, the former lead singer of popular ’90s pop-rock outfit Hootie & the Blowfish, recently reached the Top Ten on the Billboard singles chart. It’s the lead single of

Chad Brock, “Put a Redneck in the White House”

August 22, 2008 Guest Contributor 6

In the politically-charged American society that is the year 2008, many country music artists seem to have their own personal political messages spelled out into song. Chad Brock is no different. Brock, who released three

Ricochet, “I Had to Be Me”

August 22, 2008 Guest Contributor 0

Ricochet returns to the radiowaves with “I Had to Be Me”, a song about stubborn resistance and man’s unwillingness to swallow his pride to salvage a relationship. Although the band has experienced changes in their

Chris “Abby” Abbondanza, “Promised Land”

August 22, 2008 Guest Contributor 6

Abbondanza is likely an unfamiliar name in the country ranks, but he first achieved success as a member of the Pennsylvania-based band Povertyneck Hillbillies. With the group taking an indefinite break, Abbondanza attempts to go

John Rich, “Raisin’ McCain”

August 17, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 13

With “Raisin’ McCain”, John Rich has managed to do the seemingly impossible: make the life of Senator John McCain seem terribly uninteresting. Rich’s relentless repetition of a poorly crafted hook and the interference of guitars

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