I spend a good chunk of my salary on music, and it seems wasteful not to pass it on when I’ve made a particularly worthy purchase. Here are some recent purchases that I think are
How good was 2005 for country albums? Well, any one of the top ten albums this year could’ve been #1 in another year. Provided are some tracks for you to sample if you’re thinking you
Three days later than intended, thanks to a Blogspot glitch, here’s the first of a few year-in-review entries. Given the incessant single listing on this page lately, it seems only right to kcik things off
When your reader base consists of about twenty people, you can honor their requests fairly easily. An anonymous person commented that they would like to see me do a countdown of the best country duets
2005 will soon come to an end, but there’s still time for one more round of single reviews before starting with the inevitable year-in-review lists. For the thirteenth and final time this year, here we
The 400 Best Contemporary Country Singles Part 16: #25-#1 #25 “Dancin’ Circles ‘Round The Sun (Epictetus Speaks)” Rodney Crowell 2005 Peak: did not chart I don’t want to begin quoting lyrics from this song, since
I’m not even going to try to handicap this year’s CMA Awards. It’s been years since I’ve been able to intuitively call these races. But I will be happy to share my preference for each
The 400 Best Contemporary Country Singles Part 15: #50-#26 #50 “Meet In The Middle” Diamond Rio 1991 Peak: #1 Diamond Rio burst on to the country music scene with an ideal showcase of their talents:
The 400 Best Contemporary Country Singles Part 14: #75-#51 #75 “Wrong Side of Memphis” Trisha Yearwood 1992 Peak: #4 Yearwood kicked it into a higher gear with this lead single from her second album, the
The 400 Best Contemporary Country Singles Part 13: #100-#76 #100 “Nobody Wins” Radney Foster 1992 Peak: #2 Pride can be crippling. Sometimes you win the fight but lose the one you love. In the end,