As we expand the conversation beyond country music, we share our thoughts on the albums included by Tori Amos, Bangles, Sheryl Crow, Ani DiFranco, Eurythmics, and Whitney Houston.
Close Ties is a dark and harrowing album, full of desperate sorrow and self-loathing regret.
We’re slowly getting back into the swing of things!
They’re still not ready to make nice, but are they ready to get back into the recording studio?
Country radio needs to be “Fix”ed.
Break out the eye-drops, gang, this one’s a longread!
The most obvious points of comparison for singer-songwriter Maren Morris and her single “My Church” are to Sheryl Crow’s self-titled masterpiece and its follow-up, The Globe Sessions. Though Crow spent the 1990s as a pop star, her ties to the country genre were clear. “If It Makes You Happy” was always a honky-tonk anthem waiting to happen, while “The Difficult Kind,” “Home,” and “Mississippi” all sound more recognizably country than do current chart-topping hits by Sam Hunt, Kelsea Ballerini, and Thomas Rhett.
She was one of those artists that my parents listened to in the car. The CD was always Hits: 1979-1989. My dad loved “My Baby Thinks He’s a Train” and my mom, “Tennessee Flat-Top Box.” They both loved “Seven Year Ache.”
But by the time I was listening to country music independently, with CMT as my primary conduit for new music, Cash had already left country music behind. Given that she was never big on making music videos in the first place, I saw the clip for “The Wheel” a few times, and that was it.
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