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 [...]

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 Collaboration With Vocals

This is the category I completely forgot about, so I apologize for cramming so many polls in this week, but I promise, I have a plan. Remember, if you haven’t voted for the Duo/Group poll, please do so here! The results of these polls will be used very soon for a special purpose, so make [...]

Single Review: Gloriana – ‘Wild At Heart’

 

I first heard of this group at Roughstock where Matt B. discussed this same single. Since my computer doesn’t do the audio files that Roughstock uses, I couldn’t hear the song. I saw the picture of this group (The same one posted here) and I instantly thought “Little Big Town knock-off.” I was only partially [...]

Single Review: Little Big Town – ‘Good Lord Willing’

So yeah, I know J.R. reviewed the video for this song, and it’s been out for a few weeks, but I thought now was a good time to really review the song itself. Why, you ask? Mostly because now that all the Christmas songs are gone, it has returned to the country charts this [...]

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 [...]

Chris’s End of 2008 List: Top 8 Albums

This is my post for my top albums of 2008! I was looking at the new albums I had bought this year, and I only bought around 12 new country albums, most of which I thought were undeserving of being on my year-end list. So, I narrowed it down to 8 worthy candidates. I’m warning [...]

Video Review: Little Big Town – ‘Good Lord Willing’

Little Big Town’s greatest attribute is their concrete harmonies. ‘Good Lord Willing’ is a perfect showcase of the four-some in their already-signature style. The song takes its hook from the old adage ‘good lord willing and the creek don’t rise’, which I believe was also used on Grand Ole Opry posters way back when a [...]