As you all probably know by now, I am constantly looking for today’s hot new up and coming country acts. I do this by searching the internet, listening to new music that is out long before it hits country radio, and by conversations between other country music fans around the United States. Here is my…
Pop Country VS. Classic Country In the late 1960’s country artists became upset with the fact they couldn’t write their own music, let alone pick out their own band members. Artists like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and many more stood up for their rights as musicians and pursued to put an end to…
Christmas music is always a fun and festive way to ring in the holiday season with friends and family. Whether it is around the fire at your Christmas party or with the kids opening presents on Christmas day, you are bound to find some fun traditional Christmas songs to add to your Christmas season this…
I will admit, I am not the most festive during the Christmas season. I guess that comes as you get older. Christmas isn’t the same as when I was a kid. I remember every Christmas waiting for my parents to wake up, open our doors and tell us, “It’s time!” We would run out to…
I am really not sure where the time went, seems like we were just getting used to the hot summer before we were broadsided with Thanksgiving! Now it’s the Christmas season, time to put up the Christmas tree, hang the stockings and put the presents under the tree. Well if you have a country music…
I have been listening to country music for so long, that I have seen country music singers come and go. Some come in super fast, rise to quick stardom then fizzle out like yesterdays news or you have the ones that come in with a hit song and stick around awhile. Times have sure changed…
With my favorite holiday quickly approaching this Thursday, the only thing that seems to be on my mind is food – and knowing me I am always country dreaming! Mix the two together and you have yourself a Country Dreaming Thanksgiving! Here are some of today’s hottest country music stars favorite Thanksgiving recipe’s from their…
Last week as I was looking for new up and coming artists that are trying to bring back the “country” to country music, immediately I come across Sturgill Simpson. Sturgill Simpson is a quiet, solemn-faced man that speaks very little but when he opens his mouth it sounds like he’s singing straight from the Heavens;…
Hank Williams Jr. and Eric Church It was the performance I was waiting for as Bocephus ( if you’re a true Hank Jr. fan you know this is his nickname) and Eric Church are two of my favorite country singing men. Not only was I excited to see Bocephus play on stage but to hear…
Country music’s hottest newcomer Mo Pitney is taking country music by the horns and reminding all of us die hard country music fans that traditional country music is far from dead. In fact, Pitney who performed “Clean Up on Isle Five,” at The Grand Ole Opry received a hard to achieve standing ovation. At 23…