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Empowered Love Songs Martina McBride’s best-loved songs find strength in softness.

Wrote this little Valentine's Day number on the love songs of Martina McBride, an underrated legend whose best work is sharper and more nuanced than most anything on Today's Country Radio. So-called "music for soccer moms" (a label I resent!) is good, actually!!!
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am indeed screaming

goated xmas album

yes ma'am this is my post-election healing album

Meanwhile Whiskey Riff runs an article calling Shaboozey a "borderline-country-artist" and saying how disrespectful his performance was... to Toby Keith

shameful stuff
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Another rough night for people who think cancel culture is real

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

He may not have won best new artist but Bailey Zimmerman is a lock for the Dwight Yoakam lifetime achievement award for tiniest male waist

Post Malone doing his best Megan Moroney impression

Love them both though 😬

Kacey doing her best Megan Moroney impression

LOL I LITERALLY JUST SENT THIS TO SOMEONE 😭

All my favorite singers can’t sing vibe lol

Crazy night for me to come out as a Megan Moroney fan

“Country’s Cool Again” Featuring twelve classic hits from the archive and three new essays, this collection brings country music’s past and present together to consider why country’s cool again (and again).

Me & the good folks at Southern Cultures have been working hard on a country music studies reader in anticipation of the special issue I’m guest editing. Proud of how it’s come together! It includes 12 essays from the archive & 3 new ones.

Check it out: www.southerncultures.org/reader/count...

Turn It Up - Special Post-Election Edition Songs to keep on pushing

At No Fences Review, we keep on pushing and working on a world w/ a post-election "gospel impulse" Turn It Up (w/ @charleshughes2.bsky.social ) Please share, please subscribe

'Try That in a Small Town' One Year Later: Looking for Truth at a Jason Aldean Concert On the ground at a Jason Aldean concert in Nevada, where we gauge the meaning of 'Try That in a Small Town' more than a year after its release.

Hello to my new followers! Here’s my report from a Jason Aldean concert in Nevada last month, which unfortunately now reads as a series of warning signs

there were so many of these guys at the jason aldean concert lol

thank you!!

A fantastic read here, including some textbook cognitive dissonance from songwriter Kelley Lovelace, who believes he's being silenced while writing a song that literally won an industry award a week ago.

'Try That in a Small Town' One Year Later: Looking for Truth at a Jason Aldean Concert On the ground at a Jason Aldean concert in Nevada, where we gauge the meaning of 'Try That in a Small Town' more than a year after its release.

Jason Aldean spoke at a Trump rally last night so I am once again plugging my Rolling Stone report on a recent Aldean concert, where I saw firsthand how "Try That in a Small Town" remains a powerful (and surprisingly adaptable) conservative rallying cry www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Kris Kristofferson, 1936 - 2024 David Cantwell on the singer-songwriter's legacy

Today at No Fences Review: @cantkill.bsky.social on Kris Kristofferson. Don't miss it. Please share and subscribe.

The one where Don’t Rock the Inbox takes on the Try That in a Small Town Industrial Complex

they just don’t make three-song runs like this anymore

will went into the belly of the beast

He didn’t go quite that far but it was implied… and Tucker Carlson of course went there for him

'Try That in a Small Town' One Year Later: Looking for Truth at a Jason Aldean Concert On the ground at a Jason Aldean concert in Nevada, where we gauge the meaning of 'Try That in a Small Town' more than a year after its release.

I wrote about the stubborn persistence of “Try That in a Small Town,” the strange industrial complex that’s cropped up around the song and the surprising mutability of its meaning. (Aldean recently said it’s about trans people?)

My first for @RollingStone www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

'Try That in a Small Town' One Year Later: Looking for Truth at a Jason Aldean Concert On the ground at a Jason Aldean concert in Nevada, where we gauge the meaning of 'Try That in a Small Town' more than a year after its release.

I went to a Jason Aldean concert last month in hopes of discerning the true nature of the “Try That in a Small Town” phenomenon. Here’s my report on that experience: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...