From France with love for Country Music
We had a lot of excellent debut albums this year, with Kashus Culpepper's "Act I", the Kruse Brothers' "Heartbreak and Honky Tonk", Clay Stray Unit's "Sin and Squalor" or Preston McCabe's "Heading West". For red dirt music, specifically, we had two wonderful debut albums, both released in April by Oklahoman artists, Krislyn Arturs' "Honky Tonk... Continue Reading →
Ben Jarrell is a key artist for traditional country music lovers. His debut album, "Troubled Times", released seven years ago and reviewed here was a killer record and that put him instantly in a very strong position on the country music scene. Recently, we could also appreciate his talent as a producer, particularly with the... Continue Reading →
April 24th is a very busy release day for country music, but if you love red dirt music, you should consider putting very high on your list of records to listen to "Honky Tonk PhD", the debut album of Krislyn Arthurs, produced by LG Hamilton and Steven Jeffrey. Krislyn Arthurs is a young and talented... Continue Reading →
Chicago Farmer, the moniker for Cody Diekhoff, released his fifth album, "Homeaid", on March 6th, via Lohi Records. Produced by Hard Working Americans' Chad Staehly, it was recorded at Pachyderm studios, Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Six years after the brilliant "Flyover Country", this new record brilliantly blends folk, country, roots rock and americana. Todd Snider once... Continue Reading →
This post, about the best songs of the past year, is the last part of the 2025 recap. You'll find the ranking, and at the end of the post, a Spotify playlist including all the songs. As a reminder, this is a recap of the songs of the year since the creation of this blog:... Continue Reading →
As part of the 2025 recap, Country Music France publishes, for the first time, a ranking of the best Live Albums released last year. In my opinion, live albums are not enough appreciated and valued, compared to studio albums. That's why I wanted to launch this new ranking, that I will keep on carrying out... Continue Reading →
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 →
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