A few thoughts on the CMA awards

We didn’t do too well with our predictions of this year’s CMA Award winners. In part, that’s probably because we gave the CMA way too much credit for artistic integrity. Next year, I’m going to take a look at the nominees and predict the very worst person in each category, and I suspect [...]

Who will win the CMA Awards

We shared our wishlist for this year’s CMA awards with you of last week. Now for the hard part – this is where we go out on a limb and try to predict who will actually walk home with a CMA award this year. We collectively sucked at prediction the last time [...]

Who should win this year’s CMA Awards

This year’s CMA Awards are due to be announced on November 11th. There are bound to be a few surprises, with unexpected winners or losers. We’ll share our best attempts at prediction with you next week, but first we thought we would let you all know not who we expect to win, but [...]

Single Review: Lady Antebellum – ‘Need You Now’

Reading the other day, I was surprised that Lady Antebellum was already promoting a new album- after three hit singles from their debut album. Lady A’s trade mark is slick pop-country, like their most recent hit, “I Run To You” (Read the review here), something that can be good if done right.
Thankfully, their new single [...]

R-r-r-r-remix time!

Remixes are a foreign concept in country music- in my opinion, good country music shouldn’t ever have to be remixed in any other way. A remix makes me think “What, it wasn’t good enough the original way? Why is this better?” Usually country songs, if remixed, will be remixed for pop radio, like Taylor Swift’s [...]

Week ending 7/18/09: #1 this week in country music history

1949: One Kiss Too Many — Eddy Arnold (RCA)
1959: The Battle of New Orleans — Johnny Horton (Columbia)
1969: I Love You More Today — Conway Twitty (Decca)
1979: Shadows In The Moonlight — Anne Murray (Capitol)
1989: In A Letter To You — Eddy Raven (Universal)
1999: Amazed – Lonestar (BNA)
2009: I Run To You – Lady [...]

ACM Predictions

Tomorrow night’s Academy of Country Music awards are on everybody’s minds and lips. Reba will be hosting for the 11th time as the Academy hands out the awards on their 44th annual show.  Here then, is our contribution to the ACM Awards media frenzy.  These are the predictions of the My Kind of Country writing [...]

Single Review: Caitlin & Will – ‘Even Now’

I have to start with saying I love this song and performance.  I don’t think I can put those feelings into words, but I’m sure as hell going to try.  I love this song from the first note to the last. And I’ve lived these lyrics right down to the punctuation … Oh yeah, should [...]

Can You Beat Us? – Grammy Predictions

So finally after all these polls about the Grammys, we’re going to have a little contest using the results! I thought we could see who will guess the most winners! We have the predictions of all the writers here at My Kind Of Country, as well as all of the top choices as voted by [...]

Poll – Grammy For Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

First, two things. I had to mention the group-that-must-not-be-named, but just in the poll, so I guess it’s better. Anyway, I apologize for those who thought that they wouldn’t be mentioned here, but the Grammys made me do it, ok? I didn’t nominate them… Needless to say, they will not be tagged in this [...]

Single Review: Lady Antebellum – ‘I Run To You’

As I usually am when I review singles, I’m really bored. When I posted my poll for the Grammy for Best New Artist (here), I decided to make a playlist on iTunes of the 4 debut albums of the 4 nominees I actually like. Since I was snowed in since Tuesday, I was forced [...]

Poll – Grammy For Best New Artist

Well I know you guys don’t like non-country artists, but I wanted to go along with my recent theme of Grammy categories. If you haven’t noticed, Lady Antebellum is nominated for the Best New Artist against some steep competition and the Jonas Brothers. Now you’re probably wondering “So what?”
Well, the other three competitors in [...]

J.R.’s End of 2008 List: Top 20 Singles

20. Heidi Newfield – Johnny & June
Epic.  That’s the only word to describe this song.  Newfield’s performance is perfection, but the production – a throwback to the Meatloaf power ballads of the 80s – could have easily fallen into cheesy name-dropping semantics.  I am usually the first one to spit at a Johnny Cash or [...]

Chris’s End of 2008 List: Top 30 Singles

This is my 2008 top-30 singles post! First, about my singles list, I attempted to avoid songs that could still impact the charts more, songs like Miranda Lambert’s “More Like Her” or Little Big Town’s “Good Lord Willing”. I made some exceptions as you’ll soon see, but I tried to keep it to songs that [...]

Country Singles Chart Summary – 12/17/08

Yuletide offerings still dot the lower rungs of the Hot Country Songs chart this week, Montgomery Gentry holds steady to the top spot, Carrie Underwood has the Hot Shot Debut, and nothing much changes at the top of the heap.
Steve Holy enters the chart at #60 with ‘What Might Have Been’ and Faith Hill’s ‘Little [...]