CMA Flashback: Horizon Award and New Artist (2024 Edition) November 12, 2024 Kevin John Coyne 0 The complete history of the CMA award for Horizon/New Artist, including a look at this year’s nominees.
Every #1 Country Single of the Eighties: Highway 101, “(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes” July 30, 2024 Kevin John Coyne 3 Highway 101 makes a hit out of a PSA.
Every #1 Country Single of the Eighties: Highway 101, “Cry, Cry, Cry” July 6, 2024 Kevin John Coyne 3 Linda Ronstadt’s generational impact kicks in.
Every #1 Country Single of the Eighties: Highway 101, “Somewhere Tonight” June 10, 2024 Kevin John Coyne 3 A pivotal band steps into the spotlight.
CMA Flashback: Horizon Award and New Artist (2022 Edition) November 10, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 9 The complete history of the CMA award for Horizon/New Artist, including a look at this year’s nominees.
Pam Tillis Ranked: #25 – #1 June 22, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 0 Our inaugural edition of Ranked concludes with the top 25 records to date from the legendary Pam Tillis.
Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Highway 101, “Who’s Lonely Now” May 24, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 6 The first No. 1 hit of the nineties comes from a key band of the late eighties.
A Trisha Yearwood Retrospective, Part One: 1991-1992 August 16, 2019 Jonathan Keefe 7 As she prepares the release of her first country album in twelve years, Country Universe looks back on the distinguished career of Trisha Yearwood.
100 Greatest Women, #33: Pam Tillis August 3, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 3 Pam Tillis found commercial success as well as critical acclaim throughout the nineties.
100 Greatest Women, #76: Paulette Carlson (Highway 101) May 1, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 5 Few vocalists better illustrate the transition from the new traditionalist revival of the mid-eighties to the country boom in the early nineties than Paulette Carlson.