Album Review: Clint Black –‘D’lectrified’
Clint Black’s swan song for RCA was the first album he produced by himself and arguably his most ambitious. As the title suggests, D’lectrified was recorded entirely with acoustic instruments, but rest...
View ArticleClassic Rewind – Clint Black –‘Tuckered Out’
From the 1993 CMA Awards, which Black co-hosted with Vince Gill: Filed under: Classic Rewind, Spotlight Artist
View ArticleAlbum Review – Clint Black –‘Spend My Time’
The early 2000s brought a sea of change in Clint Black’s career. After the massive success of “When I Said I Do,” Black took three years away from the business to raise his daughter, who was born in...
View ArticleClassic Rewind: Clint Black ft Skip Ewing –‘Something That We Do’
Filed under: Classic Rewind, Spotlight Artist
View ArticleAlbum Review: Clint Black –‘Drinkin’ Songs & Other Logic’
Clint’s second album for Equity was to be his last full length album to date. It was a return to form, and to more traditional sounds. However, it was not very successful commercially, with none of the...
View ArticleEP Review: Clint Black –‘The Long Cool EP’
By the mid-2000s, the pressures of parenthood and running his own label had taken their toll on Clint’s recording career and songwriting, and his own musical output decreased considerably. In 2008 he...
View ArticleClassic Rewind: Clint Black ft Steve Wariner –‘Nothin’ But the Taillights’
Filed under: Classic Rewind, Spotlight Artist
View ArticleAlbum Review: Aaron Tippin –‘Lookin’ Back At Myself’
Like his labelmate Clint Black, Aaron Tippin had a hand in writing most of the songs he recorded, and also like Black, after a few albums it became apparent that he was starting to run out of good...
View ArticleClassic Rewind: Clint Black and Skip Ewing –‘Something That We Do’
This was a #2 hit for Clint in 1999:Filed under: Classic Rewind
View ArticleSpotlight Artist: Lorrie Morgan
During Monday night’s broadcast of An Intimate Evening with Eddy Stubbs featuring Vince Gill and Paul Franklin, Gill said: “Our very earliest memories of why we love country music so deeply is because...
View ArticleWeek ending 5/10/14: #1 singles this week in country music history
1954 (Sales): Slowly – Webb Pierce (Decca) 1954 (Jukebox): Slowly – Webb Pierce (Decca) 1954 (Disc Jockeys): Slowly – Webb Pierce (Decca) 1964: Understand Your Man — Johnny Cash (Columbia) 1974: Things...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Miranda Lambert –‘Platinum’
Midway through Miranda Lambert’s new album Platinum comes a jarring exception to the rule as daring as the twin fiddles that opened Lee Ann Womack’s There’s More Where That Came From nine years ago....
View ArticleA look back at 1989: Part 1 – George Jones
The year 1989 saw the debuts and/or emergence of a fine crop of new artists that would continue the neo-traditionalist movement that flickered in the early 1980s with the arrival of Ricky Skaggs and...
View ArticleA look back at 1989: Part 2 – Buck Owens
The year 1989 saw the debuts and/or emergence of a fine crop of new artists that would continue the neo-traditionalist movement that flickered in the early 1980s with the arrival of Ricky Skaggs and...
View ArticleWeek ending 6/6/15: #1 singles this week in country music history
1955 (Sales): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Jukebox): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Disc Jockeys): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1965: What’s He Doing...
View ArticleWeek ending 6/13/15: #1 singles this week in country music history
1955 (Sales): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Jukebox): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Disc Jockeys): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1965: What’s He Doing...
View ArticleWeek ending 6/20/15: #1 singles this week in country music history
1955 (Sales): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Jukebox): In The Jailhouse Now — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1955 (Disc Jockeys): Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young — Faron Young (Capitol) 1965:...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Jo Dee Messina –‘Jo Dee Messina’
This album is one of those that has stuck with me over the years, even thou the herself artist didn’t. That’s not usual in that many artists have one great album or perhaps a few great songs in them or...
View ArticleSingle Review: William Michael Morgan –‘I Met a Girl’
For those of us who long for country music to return to a more traditional sound, the debut single from Vicksburg, Mississippi and Warner Bros. recording artist William Michael Morgan seems to be, on...
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