Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Lorrie Morgan, “Five Minutes” June 9, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 7 A second generation country star scores her first No. 1 hit.
Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Paul Overstreet, “Seein’ My Father in Me” June 4, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 8 For a few years, an unassuming songwriter became a chart-topping country artist.
Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Keith Whitley, “It Ain’t Nothin'” May 25, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 7 Keith Whitley scores a posthumous No. 1 hit on both sides of the decade turnover.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #320-#311 February 18, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 13 A stretch of the list that has caused enough saltiness on Kevin’s part to put Morton’s out of business.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #710-#701 December 10, 2019 Jonathan Keefe 7 Two of the very best songs from the eighties New Traditionalist movement make disappointingly low appearances.
In Memoriam: Earl Thomas Conley (1941-2019) April 11, 2019 Kevin John Coyne 2 Earl Thomas Conley, an eighties country music hitmaker who enjoyed 18 #1 hits, has passed away.
100 Greatest Women, #8: Trisha Yearwood September 24, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 15 Trisha Yearwood was the genre’s most consistently excellent recording artist during the boom years of the nineties and the decade that followed.
100 Greatest Women, #9: Alison Krauss September 19, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 8 This legend in her own time has made an indelible mark on bluegrass, country, and Americana music.
100 Greatest Women, #34: Lorrie Morgan August 3, 2018 Kevin John Coyne 2 Second generation star Lorrie Morgan had a string of big hits in the nineties.