From France with love for Country Music
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 →
Herrick is a Nashville-based husband and wife duo from Spokane, Washington. They released, last September, their third studio album, named "Sunderland Road", five year after "Cottonfields" (released on April of 2016 and nine years after their debut LP "New Dance" (released on April of 2012). One week after the release, the band received the "Entertainer... Continue Reading →
Hunter Thomas is a rising artist from Oklahoma, who will release his debut album in 2022 via Thirty Tigers. Meanwhile, his single, named "Go For A Drive", is available on all digital platforms, since July 30th, and y'all should give it a listen because it's absolutely awesome! Written by Hunter Thomas and coproduced by Hunter... Continue Reading →
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