A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #60-#51 August 9, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 5 950 down, 50 to go.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #160-#151 June 23, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 5 We’re closer to the end than ever. Let’s try to act naturally.
2020 CMA Awards: Picks and Predictions November 9, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 2 Here are our personal picks for each CMA Awards category, as well as our predictions on who will win.
Single Review Roundup: Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, and Clay Walker August 16, 2020 Zackary Kephart 5 Miranda Lambert releases the followup to “Bluebird,” Darius Rucker offers escapism, and Clay Walker returns.
If We Ran the CMA Awards… (2020 Edition) August 9, 2020 Jonathan Keefe 11 Five of the CU crew attempt to find the diamonds in a very rough second ballot of CMA nominees.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #490-#481 July 30, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 15 Two bands who’ve recently changed their names appear in this set of ten. One of them should have dropped their song, too.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #760-#751 October 29, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 7 Early hits from Alabama, Eric Church, and the Dixie Chicks are among this batch of entries.
Worth Watching: Ken Burns, Country Music – Episode 1: The Rub (Beginnings-1933) September 15, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 5 For the next eight weeks, PBS stations across the country will broadcast Country Music, the latest extensive documentary by Ken Burns.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #910-#901 July 25, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 7 Many appeals to sentimentality this time around, some more mawkish than others.
Sunday Selections: January 29, 2017 January 29, 2017 Jonathan Keefe 3 Could it be we’re finally hearing what we’ve been hoping for?