Features
Wednesday, December 16 2009
The Best Country Music of 2009
Country music purists may be stockpiling vinyl and dry goods for the Swiftocalypse, but all things considered, 2009 was a pretty good year for country music.
Friday, December 14 2007
The Best Country Music of 2007
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.
Friday, December 14 2007
The Best Pop-Country of 2007
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.
Reviews
Friday, June 24 2011
Brad Paisley: This Is Country Music
When folks start calling you the greatest country artist of your generation, you’d better deliver. This Is Country Music does.
Wednesday, December 1 2010
Brad Paisley: Hits Alive
This is part of today's music business model: find ways to give fans more than they're expecting for their dollar. Find new ways to sell old material.
Thursday, August 6 2009
Brad Paisley: American Saturday Night
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.
News
Tuesday, May 24 2011
New from Lady Gaga, Brad Paisley and Joseph Arthur
LADY GAGA "Born This Way" Grade: A-minus Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" album is straight-up crazy. By now, we've all heard the title track that…
Friday, January 15 2010
Brad Paisley gets patriotic on 'Saturday Night'
MINNEAPOLIS — Cold Coronas, Canadian bacon pizza, Beatles music — sounds like somebody's recipe for a party, doesn't it? Those are among the ingredients mentioned…
Tuesday, August 21 2007
With humor and a hot guitar, Paisley stakes his country claim
Stop me if you've heard this: Man walks into a bar, pulls out a guitar and takes the stage. "My wife didn't think this song…
