Country Songwriter Drifting Towards Homelessness Gets Hand Up
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Beginning in the 00’s, songwriting in country music began to change, and by the early 2010’s, the population of country music songwriters had contracted by as much as 90% by some estimates, as the royalties that helped sustain these writers also began to dry up.
Saving Country Music’s 2021 Song of the Year
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The benchmarks a Song of the Year winner must meet, and the stress test it must endure is more strenuous than any other in music. We’re not looking for some infectious fanny shaker here, or even a song that might stir an emotional moment.
Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#95)
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Out with 2021 and on to 2022, which means getting you ready for the new albums and songs that are about to break out in country music for the new year. What better way than giving the ‘ol Top 25 Current Playlist a refresh with the best stuff to get 2022 started.
Release Radar & Most Anticipated Albums for 2022
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Welcome to 2022, and another (hopefully) exciting year for albums releases in the greater country and roots music world. In the spirit of trying to keep you informed, you can find a detailed list of confirmed album releases for 2022, and the always-exciting “Rumor Mill.”
In Memoriam: Country Music’s Fallen Greats of 2021
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As we look back on 2021 and before we look forward to 2022, it’s important we take the time to pay tribute to these individuals who left a mark on the country and roots music world that will never fade. Here are the performers, players, songwriters, and others we lost in 2021.
Saving Country Music’s 2021 Essential Albums List
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The annual Essential Albums list is Saving Country Music’s most comprehensive guide to the music of a given year. Drawing from the over 100 album reviews published during the year, this is where you come to find what you might have missed in a very busy year for releases.
The Historic Gruene Hall During the Holidays
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There are just some places that are better suited for visiting at certain times of the year—where the magic and the moments are enhanced. The legendary Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, TX, and the greater Gruene historic district is definitely one of those destinations.
Country & Roots Music’s Best Live Performers of 2021
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Live music in 2021 saw its return after the worst moments of the pandemic, but only in fits and starts, with multiple postponements and cancellations wrecking many plans, yet a few important moments still going off in the windows when they could.
Saving Country Music’s 2021 Album of the Year
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This isn’t just about choosing the best album of a given year. This is about choosing the album whose impact will be felt for many years to come; that will sound just as good, if not better in subsequent years than it does now, even to future generations who may not even born yet.
Album Review – Dallas Moore’s “The Rain”
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Dallas Moore’s had to build a career brick by brick over nearly three decades with no help from the mainstream industry, working under the faith that one day it will all add up to something that will withstand the test of time. With ‘The Rain,’ he’s accomplished this.
Saving Country Music’s 2021 Single of the Year
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Why are we such suckers for country songs about country songs? Because country music plays such an elemental part of our lives. Whatever country song happens to be hitting our brains at the time becomes irrevocably tied to that memory forever.
Legendary Bluegrass Pioneer J.D. Crowe Has Died
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Keith Whitley. Ricky Skaggs. Tony Rice and Larry Rice. Doyle Lawson. Jerry Douglas for crying out loud. Phil Ledbetter. These are just some of the many names that studied under bluegrass legend and banjo God J.D. Crowe, and did service time in his transformative band The New South.
Tyler Childers to Play Prestigious Bluegrass Stage in Telluride
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Tyler Childers might not be going bluegrass, but he is going to Telluride as one of the headliners of the 2022 Telluride Bluegrass Festival in beautiful Colorado. Along with Molly Tuttle, Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, and others.