Trace Adkins Leaves Capitol b/c of Bleve Brushup?
It was announced yesterday that Trace Adkins’ new album Cowboys Back in Town will be released on August 24th. Adkins, who spent his whole 14 year career with Capitol Records Nashville, suddenly decided...
View ArticleTrace Adkins On Capitol Nashville: ‘They’re Broke’
Trace Adkins has ended months of speculation of why he left one of Nashville’s most notorious major labels, that being Capitol Record’s Nashville subsidiary. “They’re broke.” Adkins explained bluntly...
View ArticleTrace Adkins’ Song “Brown Chicken Brown Cow”
I hate predictability. I hate predictability in music, and I hate it in human activity. And so here we are. Trace Adkins has put out yet another dumb gimmick song. I guess then it is my job as a...
View ArticleFowler Sells Out for Colt Ford’s “Hip Hop in a Honky Tonk”
The latest new low is this "duet" by Colt Ford with the aforementioned Kevin Fowler called "Hip Hop in a Honky Tonk." You can probably guess the premise. 2011 might be the year that the two 2...
View ArticleBrothers That Bring The Roots
Even though T Model is solidly blues, like so many other roots-based independent artists, he has turned to the same underground resources that many independent country acts use to get their music to...
View ArticleTrace Adkins Targets Your Kids w/ Sexualized Puppets
When I first roasted this song, a lot of people thought I'd gone too far. That I was tilting at windmills. That I was being some sort of ultra-moralist by pointing out the sexual nature of the song....
View ArticleWill Nashville Be The Next Detroit?
During last week's Super Bowl, one of the most gut-stirring commercials featured rapper Eminem in a spot for Chrysler, showing solidarity with the embattled city of Detroit which has taken the brunt of...
View ArticleYour Opinion: The New Waylon Jennings Tribute Album
I'll level with you folks. I do not like tribute albums. At all. Any of them. Period. No matter who the albums are in tribute to, or who is doing the tributing. I'm not going to give some long-winded...
View ArticleTrace Adkins’“Brown Chicken, Brown Cow” is DEFEATED!
Purity and decency in country music just won a big battle, as Trace Adkins' follow up to "Honky Tonk Badanka Donk" called "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" has been summarily defeated, stalling at #39 in the...
View ArticleTrace Adkins: “I Went to That Well One Too Many Times”
The fallout continues from Trace Adkins' stupid song "Brown Chicken, Brown Cow", as he continues to try to lump blame on others for the song's unpopularity, though finally admitting to some culpability...
View ArticleMichael Jackson Montgomery Releases “Letter B” Demo
About two months ago, Saving Country Music introduced you to a would-be pop country star named Michael Jackson Montgomery in the aftermath of drama between Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Miley....
View ArticleAlbum Review – Justin Moore’s “Outlaws Like Me”
Those previous positive statements I made about Justin? Well it looks like I need to back pedal pretty hard from them, because this album is awful. In my opinion, and I appreciate the gravity and the...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Worst Country Songs of 2011
I can't recall a year with this high caliber of a crop of bad songs. This group can hold their own against the Achy Breaky Hearts and Honky Tonk Bandonka Donk's of the last few decades. And this year...
View ArticleThe 6 Pop Country Archetypes
Have you ever wondered who actually listens to those songs they play on pop country radio? Here are the six primary Archetypes, or as Music Row refers to them, "target demographics", that make up the...
View ArticleSong Review – Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah”
With the first single from the Big Machine Records-era of Tim McGraw, the country music mega-star pulls off the biggest sellout move of his career, and one of the biggest sellout moves ever seen from...
View ArticleOcean Breeze Making Signature Line of Country Douches
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, a feminine products company out of North Carolina called "Ocean Breeze" announced Thursday they are launching a new line of products pandering to the country...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Worst Country Songs of All Time
We all know them and we all hate them, those ubiquitous and ridiculous pop country songs that make us hang our heads in shame, embarrassed to call ourselves country fans, constantly making us having to...
View ArticleDallas Davidson & Country’s Narrowing Songwriting Consortium
In Zac Brown's recent disparaging comments about Luke Bryan's hit "That's My Kind Of Night," Zac went out of his way to lay as little blame as possible on Luke Bryan. Instead it was the song itself,...
View ArticleLeAnn Rimes Redeems ACA Awards with Patsy Cline Tribute
But then here came a Patsy Cline tribute in the last quarter of the show and the whole sad sack theme of the night did a complete 360. There was LeAnn Rimes, singing a medley of Patsy Cline songs, and...
View ArticleGrand Ole Opry’s Newest Members Not Paying Their Dues
Membership to the Grand Ole Opry is seen a one of the most prestigious accolades a country music artist can be bestowed, and the recognition is sought after by performers both big and small, mainstream...
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