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New Single Roundup: February 21, 2022

February 21, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 2

Our team round robins six more new singles.

100 Greatest Women, #12: Patty Loveless

September 15, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 5

The last of the great mountain singers, Patty Loveless fused country, rock, and bluegrass into her own unique sound.

100 Greatest Women, #18: Tanya Tucker

September 6, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 5

Tanya Tucker hit the scene as a teenager, and went on to have hits over the course of three decades.

Sunday Selections: January 15, 2017

January 15, 2017 Jonathan Keefe 11

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Single Review: LeAnn Rimes, “How to Kiss a Boy”

October 28, 2016 Kevin John Coyne 6

This song is absolutely gorgeous, and so is LeAnn Rimes’ tender and vulnerable reading of it.

Sunday Selections: September 18, 2016

September 18, 2016 Jonathan Keefe 7

This week, we had to type the word, “songwriterly,” because some country stars are bad at talking and having opinions.

Daily Top Five: Gender Swap

June 30, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 19

Some of the most interesting country covers are ones where the artist doing the cover is of a different gender than the artist that recorded the original. What are your five favorite “gender swap” covers?

The Twenty Best Albums of 1994

December 26, 2014 Kevin John Coyne 5

The twenty best albums of 1994.

100 Greatest Men: #11. Waylon Jennings

August 13, 2014 Kevin John Coyne 5

100 Greatest Men: The Complete List Waylon Jennings was the very embodiment of the country music outlaw movement in the seventies, demonstrating that legendary music can be made if artists are liberated to create it

100 Greatest Men: #59. John Anderson

March 18, 2012 Kevin John Coyne 16

100 Greatest Men: The Complete List

As one of the finest new traditionalists of the eighties and nineties, John Anderson pushed the boundaries of country music without sacrificing its distinctive heritage.