Braun Brothers Reunion Unveils Beefy Lineup for 2025
t's a festival. It's a homecoming. It's a family reunion. It's the Braun Brothers Reunion, and it's one of the longest-running traditions in Texas music held in Idaho each summer. 2025 will be no...
View ArticleCorb Lund, Hayes Carll Plan “Bible on the Dash” Tour
No, they won't be flipping a coin each night to choose who the headliner is. Both men will be on stage together. You might have seen Corb and Hayes separately. But this will be an opportunity to truly...
View ArticleUnder The Big Sky Fest Announces Loaded 2025 Lineup
It's as big as Montana. It's independently-owned. And it was the first festival that had the cajones to put on a massive festival with independent artists at the top of a poster. It's Under The Big Sky...
View ArticleColter Wall Adds Select Dates to 2024 Tour
It pretty rare that we get tour dates from the elusive Colter Wall and his Scary Prairie Boys. And when we do, they commonly sell out quite quickly. All you folks in the deep South who've been...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Corb Lund’s “El Viejo”
"El Viejo" doesn't just add to Corb Lund's musical legacy. In many ways, it closes a circle and begins a new era. He may not be "viejo" himself, but they grey hairs are moving in, and he's now the one...
View ArticleAfter Years of Dues Paid, T. Graham Brown Invited as Opry Member
T. Graham Brown is one of the numerous country music legends who's performed on the Grand Ole Opry hundreds of times in his career, but for whatever reason has always evaded a formal invitation as a...
View ArticleNewest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#134)
You better like COUNTRY music, because this update features plenty of it and in the form of some super traditional country songs, along with country songs from artists we don't always get country songs...
View ArticleRelease Radar & Most Anticipated Country Albums for 2024
Welcome to 2024, which we hope will be a prosperous year in country music. As we saw in 2023, the amount of releases coming out early in the year is a little light, but that doesn't mean it won't...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Sean Burns –“Lost Country”
Being a country traditionalist from Canada means Sean Burns runs the same risk as the heroes he toasts on this album of being overlooked by history. But as 'Lost Country' proves, this is where the...
View ArticleCorb Lund Announces All Acoustic New Album “El Viejo”
Just like the crisp Canadian air pouring across the border and signaling the onset of fall, word has come down from Alberta that Corb Lund has a new album on the way called "El Viejo." The post Corb...
View ArticleScenes and Moments from the 2023 Jackalope Jamboree
One of the reasons independent acts have been rising in popularity to rival and even surpass their mainstream counterparts in popularity is due in part to events like the Jackalope Jamboree. The post...
View ArticlePresent & Future of Red Dirt Roots Represented at Mile 0 Fest 2023
Mile 0 Fest has established itself as one of the premier destination events in all of country and roots music, especially if you're into the Texas/Red Dirt side of things. Now after six years, Mile 0...
View Article2022 Was a Historic Year for Grand Ole Opry Debuts
In 2022, something happened at the Grand Ole Opry that is only fair to label as historic. More so than any other year in its nearly 100-year existence, the coveted Grand Ole Opry debut was doled out to...
View ArticleCanadian Country & Folk Pioneer Ian Tyson Has Died
When your music has been covered by the likes of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Judy Collins---and when your legacy is so vast that the folk, country, and Western worlds all vociferously claim...
View ArticleVintage Album Review – Corb Lund’s “Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!”
An treatise on the use of horses in warfare, it's as studied and knowledgeable as it is entertaining, especially for a subject matter that could have come across as dry and dense. But that's the skill...
View ArticleCorb Lund To Toast Peers in New Album “Songs My Friends Wrote”
Like any true country cowboy troubadour, Canada's Corb Lund spends his days herding cattle and bucking hay, and then spends his nights scratching out tunes around the kitchen table in dirty Carhartt's...
View ArticleCorb Lund’s Landmark “Cabin Fever” Gets Deluxe Release
If you've been cooped up in close quarters and are hankering for some new music from one of Canadian country's most iconic contributors, Corb Lund has just released a deluxe edition of his landmark...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Corb Lund’s “Agricultural Tragic”
Taking time between cattle ranching and hanging out in the Canadian Rockies to write songs and perform them for folks when he can, over the last few years Alberta native Corb Lund has gone from the...
View ArticleMost Anticipated Country & Roots Albums for 2nd Half of 2020
Keeping up with all the releases in the country and roots realm is hard enough. COVID-19 has made it even more difficult with numerous delays and postponements on big titles, along with many artists...
View ArticleNo, The New Dixie Chicks & Willie Nelson Albums Aren’t Being Released
Friday, April 24th was supposed to be a big day in country music, with the long-anticipated release of the first Dixie Chicks record in 14 years called 'Gaslighter,' and a much-anticipated new record...
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