They tried this tack before with “You Do Your Thing”, and the same dilemma surfaces. It’s hard to believe that you don’t care what other people think about you if you’re taking the time to
It’s hard to dislike any record that open with a mandolin. It’s damn near impossible to not enjoy a sincere and credible exploration of working-class frustration. A vocal group needs great songs to distinguish them
This is Pam’s first single in eleven years that she’s had a hand in writing, and it’s easily the most personal song she’s ever released. She had referred on record before to the car crash
This is the kind of faceless vocal group radio fodder that has been present ever since Alabama spent the early eighties as the big dogs, the equivalent of the faceless hat act radio fodder that’s
Danielle Peck, “Bad For Me” As with her previous singles, I just can’t shake the feeling that I’ve heard it all before. Peck has a decent voice, and she does her best to sell this
Billy Ray’s quite aware that his daughter’s huge success provides him an opportunity to restart his own musical career. He’s crafted a single that could be heard to his country audience as a plea
Building an entire song around trying to get a girl to show you her tattoo? It wasn’t a great conceit for a song when Gibson/Miller Band did it more than a decade ago, and it
He was one of the better B-list singers of the mid-nineties, so it’s no surprise that Herndon gives a passionate performance here. The song itself, however, is so filled with cliches and lines heard a
No wonder I got into country music in 1991. What an awesome collection of songs. I could actually enjoy country radio if this is what was in the rotation! Sorry this is four days late,
#30: Shania Twain, “You’re Still the One” Sappy, perhaps, but also irresistible, as proven by wedding DJs worldwide. As the perfectly processed Nashville-pop chorus points out, Shania’s still the one that brides love, the only