From France with love for Country Music
As always, writing this kind of post is very difficult, because picking 20 albums also means taht you have to eliminate from the list a lot of excellent ones. That's why you'll also find, at the end of this ranking, a list of excellent additional albums that were also a great part of this year.... Continue Reading →
Every year, since its creation, Country Music France has designated an Artist of the Year. In addition to the Top Albums, Top EPs and Top songs, it's an important way to reward an artist who standed out particularly all along the year on the country music scene. This is a recap of Country Music France's... Continue Reading →
Rich O'Toole released, one month ago, on November 21th, his new album, "God is A Gentleman", via PTO Records, produced by Taylor Tatsch. As we can suppose, seeing the artist's Mom on the album cover, it's a very personal LP, wonderfully written, with a lot of relatable songs about love, despair, religion, and life in... Continue Reading →
I'm starting, with this post, the recap of 2025. As always, you'll have a Top Albums, a Top Songs, a post about Country Music France's Artist of the year and a novelty, this year : a Top Live albums. But for the moment, let's start with another important category: the EP's. Since I created this... Continue Reading →
After his brilliant self-titled album, released earlier this year, and reviewed on this blog here, Dustin Brown released a new single, today, named "Ballerina", via New Usual Records. Produced by Ben Hussey, who also coproduced Dustin Brown's self-titled album, this single was cowritten by Dustin Brown and Billy Hartman and features both artists, along with... Continue Reading →
Leon Majcen released his new album, "Making a Livin' (not a killin')" on October 17th, via Cloverdale records, some months after "Better Days", released earlier this year, and one year after his self-titled album, that was reviewed here on this blog. With this new record, brilliantly produced by Patrick Lyons, Leon Majcen keeps on increasing... Continue Reading →
The legendary band from Oklahoma Red Dirt Rangers released their new album, "Red Dirt Town", on October 10th, produced by Jared Tyler, seven years after their last record, "Blue Door Nights". This is the 11th album of a band that has been spreading red dirt music since 1988. And after 37 years of existence, their... Continue Reading →
Joe Stamm Band released last month, on July 11th, one of the most awaited albums of the year, "Little Crosses", two years after the acclaimed "Wild Man" (that I reviewed there). Produced by AI Torrence, who works as guitarist for The Allegheny High, Charles Wesley Godwin's band, and recorded at Music Garden Studios, New Brighton,... Continue Reading →
Five years after her wonderful EP "Making It Up" (you can read my review here), native Texan artist Kathryn Legendre released her new LP, "Here's your Honky Tonk", on June 27th. This album, recorded at Signal Hill Studio in Austin, Tx, was produced by Kathryn Legendre, Brian Broussard, drummer Patrick Herzfeld and bassist Will Walden.... Continue Reading →
California native artist Sam Stoane released her debut album, "Tales of the Dark West", on May 23th, via Cloverdale Records. It was produced by Patrick Lyons, who is well-known for his work with Colter Wall, Vincent Neil Emerson, Noeline Hofmann or Josh Meloy. "Tales of the Dark West" is an authentic western style album, full... Continue Reading →
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