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Daily Top Five: Favorite Country Name Drop Songs

August 12, 2015 Leeann Ward 34

Ah…Remember the days when a name drop of a country singer actually meant something and made sense within the context of the song? Before Jason Aldean’s gratuitous and inane name checks of Johnny Cash, Alabama

Daily Top Five: Autobiographical Songs

August 10, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 16

Jonathan posted an excellent review of “Dime Store Cowgirl” today, which is an autobiographical song by Kacey Musgraves. Today’s top five asks you to share your favorite autobiographical country songs, the ones where the artist/writer

Daily Top Five: Songs About Sunday

August 6, 2015 Leeann Ward 11

Just as country music corners the market on drinking and cheating songs, it also expertly explores the emotions that often accompany slowing down on Sundays. Iconic classics like “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and even modern

Daily Top Five: One Word Song Titles

August 4, 2015 Leeann Ward 30

Sometimes, just one word is enough to convey a message or intention. When a song has a one-word title, it usually either captures the intent of the song or the most memorable part of the

Daily Top Five: Your Favorite Song from Your Favorite Albums

July 27, 2015 Leeann Ward 17

As if narrowing down your five favorite albums or your five favorite songs isn’t difficult enough, lets make things even more difficult by trying to narrow down our favorite song from our favorite albums. Don’t

Daily Top Five: Palate Cleansers

July 5, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 18

It’s gotten to the point that I can’t listen to more than two country singles in a row without wanting to hurt somebody. So here’s the daily top five. What are some songs that are

Daily Top Five: Murder Monday

June 22, 2015 Leeann Ward 29

Not only is the alliteration kind of fun, Murder Monday seems appropriate, because who doesn’t want to murder Monday? What are some of your favorite murder songs? The murder came as a delicious surprise in

Daily Top Five: Most Essential Albums

May 26, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 27

Suggested by longtime reader and commenter Jonathan Pappalardo: What are the five most essential albums in your collection? I love this question! Here’s my list: Dixie Chicks, Home Reba McEntire, For My Broken Heart Patty

Daily Double Top Five: Best & Worst Cover Songs

May 2, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 23

Again, we play catch up with a daily double top five, and this one focuses on cover songs. So many great songs have been re-recorded over time. Sometimes the new versions are so good that

Album Review: Ralph Stanley & Friends, Man of Constant Sorrow

April 18, 2015 Sam Gazdziak 1

Ralph Stanley & Friends Man of Constant Sorrow Perhaps the uninitiated may have “discovered” Ralph Stanley through his participation in the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack, For those who have spent their lives appreciating