Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Ronnie Milsap, “Stranger Things Have Happened” June 8, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 12 Another huge seventies and eighties country star tops the charts for the last time.
Album Review: Kane Brown, Mixtape Vol. 1 April 21, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 10 Kane Brown’s latest release gives renewed hope for what contemporary country music can be.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #250-#241 April 1, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 10 So many classics in this section that the non-classics seem more out of place than usual.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #500-#491 July 27, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 6 As we enter the top 500 of this list, a YouTube playlist of the available entries can now be found at the end of the post.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #580-#571 May 26, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 8 Zack joins the conversation as we work our way through the next ten entries of this purgatory of a list.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #680-#671 February 25, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 14 Two veterans of the Mercury Records Triple Play gambit kick off this batch of entries.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #720-#711 December 1, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 7 A remarkably inessential run of hits, despite the presence of so many essential artists.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #740-#731 November 17, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 10 The greatest country duet of all time arrives as we’re barely past the lowest quarter of entries.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #860-#851 September 2, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 12 On a list where women get the short shrift, this brief section achieves gender parity.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #990-#981 June 4, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 6 The conversation broadens with two more writers joining in.