From France with love for Country Music
Squeezebox Bandits is a tejano and honky-tonk quartet from Fort Worth, Texas. Last May, they released for the "Cinco de Mayo" their third studio album via State Fair Records, named "Check To Check". This record was produced by Matt Hillyer, Eleven Hundred Springs' frontman, and Paul Williams. Abel Casillas, who is a Fort-Worth native, is... Continue Reading →
Eight years have passed since the first record of Virginia-based band 49 Winchester, self-titled, released in 2014, and we can now enjoy their fourth studio album, "Fortune Favors The Bold". Released on May 13th, via New West records, this album is absolutely brilliant and its ten songs are undoubtedly among the best that you will... Continue Reading →
At the final part of 2021, Drew Cooper released a wonderful cover of Charles Brown's "Please Come Home For Christmas", produced by John Lousteau, and featuring Cody Canada and his son Dierks Canada. Four months later, Drew Cooper released, on April 15th, the first part of his new double album, "This Life". John Lousteau, chief... Continue Reading →
I created Country Music France Top 30 Spotify playlist on November 14th of 2019. It includes the blog's current 30 favorite songs and, together with the reviews, it's an important way for this blog to share actual songs that belong to country music, red dirt, americana or southern rock genres. It's not true that there's... Continue Reading →
"If You Want It That Much" is a song that belongs to red dirt music history. Written by Gary Thomason and Scott Melott, who were members of Susan Gibson's band, The Grobees, it was part of The Great Divide's 2002 wonderful album, "Remain". Twenty years after the release of "Remain", Cody Canada and The Departed... Continue Reading →
After Kacey Musgraves (2018), Kylie Rae Harris (2019) and Charley Crockett (2020), Country Music France's 2021 artist of the year is American Aquarium. Those who read me on this blog know that I have a lot of admiration for this fantastic band from Raleigh, North Carolina, leaded by one of the most talented songwriters of... Continue Reading →
2021 was a great year for real country and red dirt music. A lot of brilliants albums were released and when the year comes to an end, it's really difficult to make a choice among such a lot of quality records. As I had to choose only 15 LP's, there are a lot of albums... Continue Reading →
Between the songs or singles and the albums, there's an important category of records, the EP's. Since I created this blog, I also review them and when the year comes to an end, I also consider that it's important to choose the best that were released all along the year, as I do with the... Continue Reading →
It's this time of the year that we think about the year that's ending and choose the best songs that were released in 2021. It's always a difficult choice, but here we are, with 30 great songs. You'll find there real country, red dirt and southern rock songs, included in a Spotify playlist that you'll... Continue Reading →
Almost three years ago, the Texan artist from Odessa Creed Fisher released the excellent album "Life of a Workin' Man", and my review of this LP was one of the first that I wrote on this blog, on January 14th 2019. You can read it here. The prolific artist kept on writing and releasing great... Continue Reading →
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