The 60 Best Songs of 2018
The year in song reflected the state of the world around us. Here are the 60 songs that spoke to us this year.
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The 10 Best Country Albums of 2018
As our 2018 list demonstrates, women continue to make some of today's most spectacular country music, regardless of what gets played on the radio.
Kacey Musgraves Creates a Radical Musical Landscape on ‘Golden Hour’
Kacey Musgraves centers Golden Hour on her individuality and creates a radical musical landscape.
‘Woman Walk the Line’ Is a Love Letter to Country Music Past
Where female pop musicians tend to age out of the field, country musicians tend to possess a greater reverence for their predecessors, lionizing their greatness and proclaiming their influence at each and every opportunity.
Buddy Miller and Friends: Cayamo Sessions at Sea
Buddy Miller is a born collaborator, always managing to get brilliant performances out of the musicians he works with. This collection, which finds him dipping into the bag of country classics, is no exception.
Why Country Music Really Needs Kacey Musgraves
At a time when mainstream country music is perceived as too pop, Musgraves has the potential to bring it back to the basics -- and in a progressive fashion, too.
Cayamo 2015 Is a True Journey Through Song
The start of 2015 found a bevy of roots music's best artists taking to the open ocean for a week of concerts, social gatherings, and hi-jinks. (Spoiler: watch out for Kacey Musgraves if she's on a scooter.)
Dierks Bentley: Riser
A stripped down version of this overwrought and over-weighted album could have provided a way out of Nashville's doldrums.
Justin Moore: Off the Beaten Path
Moore gives us a bunch of fun-loving, good-timey tunes with some great guitar licks along with...well...a couple songs that are wince-worthy.