Nashville Country: Voices From the Trenches

I read quite a few country music blogs and lately I’ve seen a lot of posts that complain about the current state of country music coming out of Nashville.  I’ve written quite a bit about this myself and more often than not the subject has come up in interviews I’ve conducted with different bands and [...]

5 Songs That Ruined Country Music

Many times you don’t notice something when you’re right in the middle of it.  Who knew back in the 1990′s when everyone was enjoying all those silly line dances that we were actually witnessing the demise of country music?  I sure didn’t, I actually moved to Nashville in 1995 because I wanted to be closer [...]

CMT Missed a Few Great Ones

There are many Saturday mornings where I’ll put the TV on CMT for background noise while I putter around the house doing this and that.  I turned it on and if there had been a decent video playing I would have watched but I saw that it was Sugarland so I winced in pain and [...]