The 9513 Country Music — Let’s get this out of the way first: Any new music from Charley Pride is cause for celebration. Country music’s biggest African-American star is also among the best pure singers the genre has ever known, one of the few guys to be fully trusted wi... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Let’s get one thing straight, country music today is not country music.  It’s pop music.  Just because you wear a cowboy hat and sing with a twang in your voice does not mean your music is country.  Carrie Underwood has more in common with Nor... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — You can’t listen to this freewheeling Texas singer and songwriter long without becoming thoroughly convinced that he’s a full-blooded relative of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Merle Haggard. Waylon Jennings’ famous observation about Grand Ole ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Record Fiend said... Waylon Jennings - Singer of Sad Songs (way-underrated Lee Hazlewood-produced album from 1970 just before Waylon became an Outlaw...incl. the hit title track along with superb covers of Tom Rush's "No Regrets," Tim Hardin's "If I ... more info

Impose Magazine — The time has come you cheese-head, rust belt, gridiron freaks. In the words of my great grand pappy Hank Williams Jr., "Are you ready for some football?" -- Hank Williams III's unborn son. That's right folks, the Socialist Super Bowl is upon us, and ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — zero said... - African Renaissance - Volume 3 - South Sotoh - Tswana - Massiel - Baladas y canciones de Bertolt Brecht (1977) - African Renaissance - Music From The South African Broadcasting Corporation Archives - Volume 9 - The Weavers - The Reu... more info

The 9513 Country Music — So the boys of Old Crow Medicine Show caught a ride and a smoke from a Philly trucker, Mark Knopfler and James Taylor wrote about the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line in “Sailing to Philadelphia,” and Robert Earl Keen’s Philadelphia stay in “... more info

ContactMusic — The 1964 Pontiac Bonneville KID ROCK drives in his BORN FREE video was custom-made for country music icon HANK WILLIAMS, JR.The Michigan rocker now owns the one-of-a-kind motor, which was styled by tailor to the stars Nudie Cohn in 1968, after pickin... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Any Major Dude said... A HISTORY OF COUNTRY VOL. 6 - 1950/51 1. Eddie Kirk – Sugar Baby 2. Moon Mullican – I’ll Sail My Ship Alone 3. Cotton Thompson – How Long 4. Red Foley – Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 5. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Mr And Mis... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Four Steps From The Blues said... Since the early Seventies, Big Star has been near the top of the list of Pop bands. I bought their first album back then and was less than impressed. The songwriting was very good but the performance was less than aw... more info