Don Gibson – Country Universe

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #140-#131

July 4, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 8

Help us make it through the rest of this list.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #300-#291

February 25, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 12

It’ll take ten rounds with Jose Cuervo and two piña coladas to cope with the absolute travesty at #297.

A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #840-#831

September 9, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 7

It’s easy to get musical whiplash during this section of the list!

100 Greatest Women, #24: Dottie West

August 24, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 3

This year’s Hall of Fame inductee impacted country music as a singer, songwriter, and mentor to younger artists.

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.

Sunday Selections: August 13, 2016

August 14, 2016 Jonathan Keefe 15

Country radio needs to be “Fix”ed.

Sunday Selections: July 10, 2016

July 10, 2016 Jonathan Keefe 1

With so much to get caught up on, there’s no time for a snarky one-liner.

The Best Singles of 2014, Part 2: #20-#1

December 30, 2014 Kevin John Coyne 15

The countdown concludes with our top twenty singles of 2014. Check out the first twenty entries here, and look for our countdown of the year’s twenty best albums tomorrow. #20 “The Devil is All Around”

Single Review: Mandy Barnett featuring Alison Krauss, “Blue Blue Day”

February 21, 2014 Ben Foster 9

The awesomeness of this release has a definite air of inevitability. If Don Gibson wrote it, and Mandy Barnett and Alison Krauss sing it, it’s pretty hard to imagine it not being great.

100 Greatest Men: #60. Don Gibson

March 12, 2012 Kevin John Coyne 5

100 Greatest Men: The Complete List

The writer of several timeless country standards, Don Gibson put down his pen often enough to maintain a remarkable, decades-long career as a singer and performer.