About
Saving Country Music’s purpose is to promote and disseminate information about REAL country music, the underground country music movement, as well as the underground and DIY movements of roots, rockabilly, bluegrass, blues, and some folk music.
It offers news, opinion, concert and album reviews, artist profiles, music history, and occasional off-color pop country bashing. It also covers ‘Country Hero’ artists of the past, like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and ‘The Outlaws’ like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Tompall Glaser, Bobby Bare, Billy Joe Shaver, Townes van Zandt, Shel Silverstein, Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphy, David Allan Coe, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Hasil Adkins.
Since a lot of lesser-known country and roots artists are ignored by most media outlets, we offer reviews of material that can be used for promotion. If you are an artist and want to have your music reviewed, please contact Kyle ‘The Triggerman’ Coroneos at kylecor42@hotmail.com.
Saving Country Music is especially aligned with the movement to reinstate Hank Williams into the Grand Ole Opry posthumously, otherwise known as Reinstate Hank.
How Saving Country Music Got Started
It all started as a blog on the MySpace site, that was initially called ‘Free Hank III.’ The initial point of Free Hank III and the sister site freehank3.org was to put pressure on Shelton Hank Williams III’s label Curb Records to release his albums. Hank III had been lip locked by a provision in his contract that he could not speak against Curb, so Free Hank III is and was an organization of Hank III fans, DJ’s, podacsters, and other musicians who spoke out against Curb Records in Hank III’s behalf.
In July of 2008, Free Hank III helped win the release of Hank III’s album Damn Right,Rebel Proud. Free Hank III is still operation, and will continue to be until Hank Williams III is fully free of his Curb Records obligations.
