Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sunday Selections: October 30, 2016
We love the guy, but Sturgill Simpson sure can be a grumpy sumbitch at times.
Sunday Selections: August 13, 2016
Country radio needs to be “Fix”ed.
Sunday Selections: May 15, 2016
Rhiannon Giddens goes Broadway, Kris Kristofferson gets boxed, and Beyoncé survives being Dixie Chicked, all in this week’s Sunday Selections!
Sunday Selections: February 7, 2016
We just kind of can’t with this year’s ACM nominees.
Favorite Females’ Covers of Females’ Songs
We can thank the shortsighted radio consultant Keith Hill for one thing: drawing attention to the women of country music in a year where so many of them are making outstanding music. As their mainstream counterparts cycle through a series of one-note styles and themes, female country artists are putting out diverse and decidedly more progressive music, even as they draw influence from previous generations. That they do so while supporting each other makes it all the more impressive.