The Best Country Music of 2007

By Roger Holland

Whatever your taste in music, be it Country or Western, 2007 has been something of a disappointment when compared with recent years. You have to look a little harder to find the diamonds in the Van Lear coal-mine that was the year that was, but they're there. [14 December 2007]

The Best Pop-Country of 2007

By Josh Timmermann

Purists may turn up their noses at pop-country, but it produced more top-shelf music this past year than the stricter formal traditions on which it draws.

Brad Paisley: American Saturday Night

By Dave Heaton

That hopeful melody returns at the middle and end of the album, marking this as a concept album about hope, about the past, present, and future and the paths between them. [6 August 2009]

With humor and a hot guitar, Paisley stakes his country claim [21 August 2007]