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 [...]

A genre by any other name …

Anyone who reads a country music blog for any length of time, is at some point bound to come across a heated discussion about what country music is and what it is not. There are no cut and dry definitions, and a lot of songs borrow heavily from different styles, and are thus, hard [...]

Week ending 10/17/09: #1 albums this week in country music history

1984: Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans (Sony)
1989: Clint Black – Killin’ Time (RCA)
1994: Brooks & Dunn – Waitin’ On Sundown (Arista)
1999: The Dixie Chicks – Fly (Monument)
2004: Rascal Flatts – Feels Like Today (Lyric Street)
2009: Miranda Lambert – Revolution (Sony)

A swarm of new videos!

Head over to CMT’s website today, and there are 10 music videos that are premiering. Those would be “Southern Voice” by Tim McGraw, “I’m Alive” by Kenny Chesney & Dave Matthews, “White Liar” by Miranda Lambert, “Keep You” by Sugarland, “Consider Me Gone” by Reba McEntire, “That’s How Country Boys Roll” by Billy Currington, “Hit [...]

2009 album recommendations, album previews

2009 has been interesting, a crappy year for mainstream country music overall, but I would say a good year for other genres. Since the year is 75% over, I just wanted to share some of my picks from the year so far (inside country music and out) and a look at a few upcoming albums. [...]

Miranda’s “Revolutionary” EP

Okay, this is pretty cool. Most people already know that Miranda Lambert’s new album, Revolution, comes out in just a few weeks on September 29th. However, this is new: On September 8th (tomorrow), you can go to Best Buy and buy Dead Flowers, a small EP of a few songs:
“Dead Flowers”
“Take It Out on Me”
“I [...]

Album Review: David Nail – ‘I’m About To Come Alive’

Missouri’s David Nail has been on the fringes of success for a while. He first saw chart action back in 2002, when his Mercury single ‘Memphis’ failed to gain traction, faltering outside the top 50, and David was unceremoniously dropped, leaving an unreleased album (produced by Alan Jackson’s producer Keith Stegall) to languish in [...]

Single Review: Miranda Lambert – ‘White Liar’

As of now, Miranda Lambert’s Revolution is one of my most anticipated albums of 2009, a list including the likes of Nelly Furtado’s Mi Plan and Patty Loveless’ Mountain Soul II (Interesting bunch, eh?). “Dead Flowers” was seemingly a step in a new musical direction for Miranda, but “White Liar” is more country and all [...]

Single Review: George Strait – ‘Living For The Night’

Honestly, I’ve never been a big George Strait fan. I’ve known some of his songs, his more recent hits, and on a whim I bought Troubadour this past January. When I got it, there were a few good tracks, but it never caught with me and I stopped listening to it.
However, this new Strait [...]

Test Track – ‘I Wish He’d Been Drinkin’ Whiskey’

So this is a new feature I’ve been wanting to do, mostly because I love being able to recommend music, and this is the perfect vehicle for that. Anyway, I got the idea from my local radio station where they play new singles from artists and get feedback by ratings from people that call in [...]

Single Review: Miranda Lambert – ‘Dead Flowers’

Yesterday, en route home from work, I caught a snippet of radio where the DJ mentioned “‘Dead Flowers’ by Miranda Lambert”. I got excited thinking he was playing the studio version, and right I was  — except he had already played it, so he just played about 30 seconds of it. Disappointed, I got home [...]

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 [...]

Mixtape Time!

I was talking to a friend yesterday morning, and he told me that I need to give him a mixtape so he can “assess my personality”- so I decided to try and make my mixtape to try and encompass all of the music I listen to in just a limited number of tracks, say around [...]

Miranda Lambert’s Next Single Will Be…

Either “Dry Town”, “Desperation” or “Guilty In Here”. I know the link was posted on The 9513, but I wanted to re-emphasize it here! Miranda is having a poll for the next single off of her album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend here! (On the page for the poll you can also listen to the three choices if [...]

Party Time!

Friday night is upon us.  And for lots of us that means a chance to go out and shed some of the stress acquired during the work week.  Well, I know for me it does.  It’s almost taboo to sing about drinking and partying these days in country music.  The songs that do slip through [...]

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 [...]