From France with love for Country Music
2023 was not only an exceptional year for established country artists. If it was such a fantastic year for our genre, it's also due to a lot of young and talented singers and songwriters, who released their first LP record this year. That's why I considered necessary to make a ranking of the best debut... Continue Reading →
2023 will be remembered as an exceptional year for country music, due to the release of an impressive quantity of excellent albums. In this year of fantastic LPs, there were also a lot of excellent EP's, and several artists who released great albums, also released EP's, as did Charles Wesley Godwin, Drayton Farley and Zach... Continue Reading →
Abby Hamilton is a young singer and songwriter from Wilmore, Southwest of Lexington, Kentucky. She was raised in a musical family, with great aunts part of a gospel group named The Hamilton Family, and a brother who's the lead guitarist in her band. Abby Hamilton released two EP's, "Broke Girl", in 2017, and "Afraid of... Continue Reading →
Vinnie Paolizzi is a suburban Philadelphia native singer and songwriter, descending from Italian immigrants, who now lives in Nashville. For years, he hosted there "Revival", a weekly writers round where songwriters shared songs, a place for them to rub shoulders and talk shop. After a 2021 EP, named "Private Sky", Vinnie Paolizi released, on November... Continue Reading →
With such a lot of brilliant country albums released this year, some great records had probably not all the success that they deserved. If 2023 would have been a "normal" year for country music, there's absolutely no doubt that Scott Southworth's new album would have been part of all the talks for best album of... Continue Reading →
Here's the second part of my "gig stories" dedicated to Equiblues festival, a rodeo and country music festival that takes place in a french little town, in August. After a first post about Jesse Daniel's gig (you can read it here), the second post is about Jake Bush's gig. You'll find some videos made during... Continue Reading →
Equiblues is a 5 days summer festival dedicated to rodeo and country music, that takes place in the little town of Saint-Agrève, Ardèche, Southeastern France, in August. It's one of the two main summer country festivals in France, along with "Festival Country Craponne". This year, it celebrated its 24th edition, after a 5 year suspension,... Continue Reading →
If you love quality music, you couldn't miss Joe Stamm Band, this summer. After a brilliant EP, "Fort Smith", released on July 14th, they released a new album, on August 11th, named "Wild Man". Defining their music is a hard task. If you ask them, this Midwestern band from Central Illinois will tell you that... Continue Reading →
I always said and repeated on this blog that country music, even though it's rooted in American South, has no frontiers. I've listened and reviewed excellent and real country music from Rhode Island, Ohio, Washington State, Canada, even from UK or France. The album reviewed on this post was made by an artist from Frederick... Continue Reading →
Austin Gilliam is an artist from South Texas who grew up in Corpus Christi and started on the Texas music scene as a sideman, for artists such as Brandon Jenkins, Drew Kennedy and Matt King, before moving on to frontman of his own band and songwriter. His flagship single, "Strawberry Lemonade", released 10 years ago,... Continue Reading →
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