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Top Fifty CMA Single of the Year Winners, Part Three: #30-#21

October 25, 2017 Kevin John Coyne 10

All fifty winners of the CMA Single of the Year, ranked. These ten make up the middle of the pack.

Hall Worthy: The Modern Era

May 12, 2017 Kevin John Coyne 15

These are the ten Modern Era artists who are most worthy of induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Single Review: Thomas Rhett featuring Maren Morris, “Craving You”

April 11, 2017 Kevin John Coyne 17

A quick history lesson for today’s country artists.

Album Review: Little Big Town, The Breaker

February 26, 2017 Kevin John Coyne 10

The Breaker is a top-notch collection of songs that yearn for a unifying sound.

A Country Music Conversation, Day 25: “You Gave Me a Mountain” to “You’re Gone”

December 23, 2016 Kevin John Coyne 6

Day 25 concludes the series with tracks from Marty Robbins, Anne Murray, Bobbie Cryner, The Judds, and Diamond Rio.

The Best of 1991: The Ballot

November 18, 2016 Kevin John Coyne 7

1991 is the year that multiple Country Universe writers fell in love with country music. One look at the ballot and it’s easy to see why.

Yesterday’s Songs: October 6, 1990

October 6, 2016 Kevin John Coyne 10

An old feature returns today, as we look back at the top twenty singles on this date in 1990.

Daily Top Five: Songs About Rain

July 31, 2015 Leeann Ward 18

Rain is often associated with gloom or sadness and there’s plenty of that in country music, but it turns out that country music can be surprisingly positive about rain too. These are some of my

The Best Albums of 1993, Part One: #20-#11

July 11, 2015 Kevin John Coyne 9

Today, we kick off our Best of 1993 feature with the first part of our album retrospective. Included in this list are the debut albums of two underrated singer-songwriters, confident projects from the genre’s leading

Daily Top Five: Kentucky Country

June 5, 2015 Ben Foster 11

This week in 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to join the union. It’s also the state that two Country Universe writers – Jonathan Keefe and myself – call home. Kentucky is well known as the