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Friday, February 3 2012

The Barbaric (and Poetic) Yawp of Shelby Lynne

By George Russell

Shelby Lynne performs live for you on 6 February 2012.


Thursday, October 6 2011

High Flying: Pop Goes Country

By Dave Heaton

1991 was a significant, even historic year, for country music, giving a strong indication of the direction it would take from then on to now.


Tuesday, June 28 2011

A Thousand Ways to Love, a Thousand Ways to be Hurt: The Legacy of Lefty Frizzell

By David Ensminger

Like others of his honky-tonk ilk, Lefty Frizzell embodies the story of wits and perseverance in a time when poverty gripped portions of the South in a steadfast grip.


Thursday, June 16 2011

Ronnie Dunn: Ronnie Dunn

By David Masciotra

“I’ve waited 20 years to make this record,” Ronnie Dunn says in a video on the making of his first solo album. His patience wore out and now he’s clawing at our eyes and screaming in our ears for attention. He wants us to listen, and we should.


Thursday, May 5 2011

A Happy Family from the Land of Oz

By Steve Horowitz


Friday, April 29 2011

Country-music siblings Secret Sisters didn’t stay secret long

By Randy Lewis


Friday, February 18 2011

Loretta Lynn Shines on “Fist City”

By Steve Horowitz


Tuesday, November 16 2010

Dixie Chicks: The Essential Dixie Chicks

By Omar Kholeif

This is an evocative selection that captures a profound recent history not only in the Dixie Chicks’ career, but in the recent history of female country music.


Monday, October 11 2010

Great Big Sea: Safe Upon the Shore

By Zachary Houle

Great Big Sea is, at its heart, a party band, and there is pretty much one thing that its music is a soundtrack to in Canada: drinking your face off.


Thursday, June 17 2010

‘Cigar Box Banjo’  Is a Nice Parting Gift From One of Canada’s Most Talented Writers

By Zachary Houle

Cigar Box Banjo is less a memoir than it is an epitaph: Paul Quarrington wanted to be taken seriously as a bluesman, less so as an author.


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Taylor Swift, Country’s hottest crossover artist (PopWire) [24.Aug.09]
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The Country Music Association Awards, Wednesday on ABC (PopWire) [12.Nov.08]
Golden hair and golden throats are feminizing the country music scene (PopWire) [10.Nov.08]
The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, ed. Chad Berry (Reviews) [2.Oct.08]
Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings (Reviews) [10.Jul.08]
Survival of the Fittest: The Hard Country of John Anderson (Features) [11.Apr.08]
Cross Canadian Ragweed mature as songwriters, performers (PopWire) [4.Dec.07]
Country music pioneer Hank Thompson dies at 82 (PopWire) [8.Nov.07]
Dwight Yoakam: Dwight Sings Buck (Reviews) [2.Nov.07]
Rissi Palmer adds some more color to country music (PopWire) [24.Oct.07]
Country’s Clint Black still works on being an even better man (PopWire) [24.Oct.07]
All-Time Best Songs 20-1 (Features) [20.Sep.07]
All-Time Best Songs 40-21 (Features) [19.Sep.07]
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All-Time Best Songs 100-81 (Features) [13.Sep.07]
Faith Hill’s star dims, but ‘McGraw’s wife’ remains upbeat about future (PopWire) [24.Aug.07]
With humor and a hot guitar, Paisley stakes his country claim (PopWire) [21.Aug.07]
High-energy Big & Rich relishes ‘ride ‘em cowboy’ attitude (PopWire) [17.Aug.07]
Miranda Lambert spurns ‘poppy sounding’ country (PopWire) [25.Jul.07]
Country music road tours are rockin’ (PopWire) [25.Jul.07]
‘Upfront’ Teddy Thompson pines for pure country (PopWire) [17.Jul.07]
The Sunny Side and More: An Interview With John Carter Cash (Features) [16.Jul.07]
The Last Cowboy in Town: Chris LeDoux (Features) [13.Jul.07]
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill mark 10 years of their duet (PopWire) [9.Jul.07]
Growing Up Hurts: Dolly Parton’s Albums of “Independence” (Features) [17.May.07]
Miranda Lambert succeeds on talent, grit (PopWire) [7.May.07]
Facing the music about a Florida town’s racism in the ‘50s (PopWire) [2.May.07]
Dale Watson: From the Cradle to the Grave (Reviews) [30.Apr.07]
Country Music Hall of Famer collaborates with a new generation (PopWire) [17.Apr.07]
Charlie Louvin: Charlie Louvin (Reviews) [17.Apr.07]
Tim McGraw: Let It Go (Reviews) [11.Apr.07]
Shut Up & Sing (Reviews) [20.Nov.06]
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