Travis Tritt, “You Never Take Me Dancing” Good Lord, this is good. I’ve always thought Tritt was trying too hard when he did the southern rock thing, but with age, he’s really grown into the
Sarah Johns, “The One in the Middle” Too long, too drawn out and not nearly clever enough to sustain an entire song. Johns has a nice, twangy voice that is being wasted on this futile
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, “I Need You” Most of the time, these two superstars just take turns singing backup and call it a duet. This is only the second full-fledged collaboration the two have
Jamie Slocum, “Say Hello to Heaven” This is beautiful, a man speaking to his wife who died in a car accident because of a reckless drunk driver. He’s asking for strength to raise the daughter
Gretchen Wilson, “One of the Boys” “Woo hoo hoo.” That’s a catchy little hook there. Wilson sounds more fully engaged in the material here, much more so than anything that was released off of the
One year after the Dixie Chicks popped up on the Time 1oo, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people, their producer Rick Rubin has been included in the 2007 list. It’s only
As album sales tank, the one silver lining in the industry has been the increase in digital sales. Country music consumers have been slow to adapt to the format, but as time has gone on,
The original version of “I’ll Stand By You” by The Pretenders is a love anthem that is part tenderness, part defiance. In covering this standard from the early nineties, Carrie Underwood transforms it into a
Here’s what’s been catching my attention today: Album Reviews City Girl, Country Girl has high praise for the new John Prine & Mac Wiseman release Standard Songs For Average People: The sound of the album
Joe Nichols, “Another Side of You” Nichols is the perfect singer for material like this. The song manages to sing of loving a woman’s weaknesses without condescension and of her daily challenges with quite a
