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- Chuck Wicks: Turning Point
- Green River Ordinance: Fifteen
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- Black Violin: Stereotypes
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- Jonathan McReynolds: Life Music, Stage Two
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- Angaleena Presley: American Middle Class
- Pat McGee: Pat McGee
- John Anderson: Goldmine
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Category Archives: Country
Chuck Wicks: Turning Point
Eight years after his last full-length album and a career that’s branched out into co-hosting TV’s America’s Morning Show with Blair Garner, Chuck Wicks returns with a stunning new record that showcases masterful writing and singing. Turning Point ranges from … Continue reading
Green River Ordinance: Fifteen
Fifteen, the third studio album from Green River Ordinance, is named after the number of years this Texas-based, harmony-rich, alt-country band has been together, and is based on a simple message: hold fast to the things that are true. Fifteen, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fifteen, Green River Ordinance, Residence Music
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John Anderson: Goldmine
John Anderson is a country legend known for his immediately recognizable earthy voice and honest songwriting. Goldmine is his first new music in 9 years and 23rd album. It is filled with evocative, passionately played songs celebrating moments in real … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayou Boys Music Group LLC, Goldmine, John Anderson
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Whitey Morgan: Sonic Ranch
Whitey Morgan is the real deal: a whiskey poet, tele-twanger-banger, road warrior and artist who laughs at it all. On his latest album, Sonic Ranch, this country outlaw bandleader delivers one fantastic song after another about the rough-and-tumble world of … Continue reading
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Lee Ann Womack: The Way I’m Livin’
Grammy-winner Lee Ann Womack returns to the serious country that defines her with a fantastic new album, The Way I’m Livin’. Womack and Frank Liddell, her husband and the album’s producer, present magnificent renditions of 13 songs by some of … Continue reading
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David Nail: I’m A Fire
David Nail’s third recording, I’m A Fire, is an upbeat departure from the Grammy-nominated country singer’s past albums that saw songs of heartbreak emerge as chart-topping hits. After turning around his personal life, Nail recorded a CD of mostly uptempo … Continue reading
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Eric Paslay: Eric Paslay
Eric Paslay’s self-titled CD marks the long-awaited solo debut of one of Nashville’s most accomplished songwriters. Paslay, who has written with or for Lady Antebellum, Eli Young Band, Love and Theft, Jake Owen and Amy Grant, spent several years crafting … Continue reading
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Tagged EMI Records Nashville, Eric Paslay
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Deana Carter: Southern Way Of Life
Country-rock star Deana Carter has her first new album in six years after taking a break to raise her son. Carter’s fans will remember a decade-long string of hits, starting with the multi-platinum international debut, Did I Shave My Legs … Continue reading
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Tagged Deana Carter, Red River Entertainment, Southern Way Of Life
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LeAnn Rimes: Spitfire
LeAnn Rimes has made the most intimate album of her career. Spitfire is her brave response to the public critics of her unruly private life. Everyone knows she can sing. But can she ever write! These unapologetic, brutally honest and … Continue reading