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SingleTree, "Is It Really Over Now?"

August 25, 2008 Guest Contributor 9

Boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy loses girl. In this pensive ballad by new act SingleTree, a man questions whether his best efforts really mattered at all now that his world has fallen apart

Discussion: Favorite Songs by Favorite Artists

August 24, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 32

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

Jimmy Wayne, Do You Believe Me Now

August 24, 2008 Guest Contributor 11

Jimmy Wayne Do You Believe Me Now Jimmy Wayne is one of the comeback kids of 2008 after a long, hard road to country music success. Once he arrived in Nashville, he had minor songwriting

Webb Pierce, "There Stands the Glass"

August 24, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 7

There Stands the Glass Webb Pierce 1953 Writt en by Audrey Grisham, Russ Hull & Mary Shurtz He was the top country artist of the 1950s, spending 113 weeks at No. 1 that decade. As

Classic Country Singles: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

August 24, 2008 Guest Contributor 7

Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 1978 Written by Ed Bruce & Patsy Bruce Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson collaborated at numerous stages of their careers,

Discussion: Songs You Don’t Like By Artists You Do

August 23, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 30

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

Glen Campbell, “Galveston”

August 23, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 5

Galveston Glen Campbell 1969 Written by Jimmy Webb Everything old becomes new again, especially in country music, which is as predictably cyclical as the rise and fall of the moon and sun. The string-drenched charm of

Harlan Howard

August 23, 2008 Guest Contributor 0

“I like to give artists a song they have to sing the rest of their lives. Songwriting is both my living and my pleasure, so I’m a happy man.” ~ Harlan Howard The dean of

Discussion: Songs You Like By Artists You Don’t

August 22, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 40

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

Review: Darius Rucker, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”

August 22, 2008 Guest Contributor 11

The first country release from Darius Rucker, the former lead singer of popular ’90s pop-rock outfit Hootie & the Blowfish, recently reached the Top Ten on the Billboard singles chart. It’s the lead single of