Is it just me, or are country albums too bloated these days?   Alan Jackson’s Good Time is a decent album, but at seventeen tracks, it’s too much to listen to in one sitting.     I remember

Alright, ladies and gents. Put your iPod/mp3 player/music library on shuffle and list the first 15 songs it plays.  Blatant honesty’s a must, so don’t skip those embarrassing songs you don’t want to admit you

The media is picking up on Miranda Lambert scoring her first top ten single. In this Reuters article, Lambert herself is quoted as being shocked that a song this dark broke through: The lyrics would

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly, which arrived in my mailbox today, has an interesting three-page feature story on Sugarland. Titled “The Sugarland Express”, the sub-headline proclaims that “With a new album influenced by R.E.M.,

At the end of 2007, the only artists I could think of that had new albums coming out were Kathy Mattea, Alan Jackson and Dolly Parton.  But new albums came along from some of my