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Patty Loveless, <em>When Fallen Angels Fly</em>

August 26, 2008 Guest Contributor 12

Patty Loveless When Fallen Angels Fly Patty Loveless returned from potentially career-ending throat surgery with the soulful Only What I Feel in 1993. Its follow-up album When Fallen Angels Fly, is a wonderfully-rendered collection that

Classic Country Singles: Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler”

August 26, 2008 Guest Contributor 3

The Gambler Kenny Rogers 1978 Written by Don Schlitz Although responsible for one of country music’s most famous lines (“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em…”), Don Schlitz’s premier

Monday Discussion: Pop Songs that Country Artists Should Cover

August 25, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 0

While we’re all fans of country music here, many of us enjoy other styles as well, be it rock, rap, jazz, classical or R&B. Sometimes, the songs from those genres would be perfect fits for

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

Discussion: Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists

August 24, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 32

One of our most popular features is Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists, which has one of our writers describe their twenty-five favorite songs by one of their favorite artists. Sometimes, the title just says it

Jimmy Wayne, Do You Believe Me Now

August 24, 2008 Guest Contributor 11

Jimmy Wayne Do You Believe Me Now Jimmy Wayne is one of the comeback kids of 2008 after a long, hard road to country music success. Once he arrived in Nashville, he had minor songwriting

Webb Pierce, "There Stands the Glass"

August 24, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 7

There Stands the Glass Webb Pierce 1953 Writt en by Audrey Grisham, Russ Hull & Mary Shurtz He was the top country artist of the 1950s, spending 113 weeks at No. 1 that decade. As

Classic Country Singles: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

August 24, 2008 Guest Contributor 7

Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 1978 Written by Ed Bruce & Patsy Bruce Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson collaborated at numerous stages of their careers,