From France with love for Country Music
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 →
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 →
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