Open Thread

While we’re all fans of country music here, many of us enjoy other styles as well, be it rock, rap, jazz, classical or R&B.   Sometimes, the songs from those genres would be perfect fits for

One of our most popular features is Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists, which has one of our writers describe their twenty-five favorite songs by one of their favorite artists. Sometimes, the title just says it

I did a post similar to this last November (“Songs I Hate by Artists I Love”) but readership has grown exponentially since then, and the topic complements yesterday’s perfectly. Since I already hit up the

There really aren’t that many country artists that I don’t like.  Most of them that I don’t enjoy much, like Montgomery Gentry or Brad Paisley, I am usually indifferent to, liking a song every once

Last week’s Recommend a Track got this series off to a great start.   In fact, some readers already flagged songs I was planning on featuring in future weeks:  Sugarland, “Stand Back Up” (Lanibug); Tim

In a previous Open Discussion thread, Kevin asked us to share our Country Convert song. On that thread, a comment by Jim Malec made me think of my very first album purchase. While my parents

At lunch today, a friend of mine mentioned that she doesn’t care for Fleetwood Mac, but loves the way the Dixie Chicks do “Landslide.”   “Better than the original,” she said. To which I thought, “Yes!

The invaluable ggcolumn pointed me to a fascinating interview with Wynonna that ran in The Capitol Times, a newspaper out of Madison, Wisconsin. She’s one of those rare icons who is compelling whether they’re speaking