From France with love for Country Music
This year, I wrote reviews of country artists from Washington State (The Lowdown Drifters) or Rhode Island (Charlie Marie), far from the American South. Today, I want to tell you about another artist from Dayton, Ohio. His name is Mack McKenzie and this year he released his second album, "Kill The Buffalo". If you like country... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Jennyville! Nashville native Jenny Tolman released last friday her debut album, the awaited "There Goes the Neighborhood". It's particularly brilliant and undoubtedly one of the most important releases of this summer. "High Class White Trash", the main single from the album, which was included in Country Music France's spring playlist, is an awesome... Continue Reading →
12 years ago, I was in Boston for a 10 days trip. I didn't want to stay only in Boston and I decided to go South, towards Newport, Rhode Island. An amazing place! On my way back to Massachussets, I decided to make a stop in Providence, the capital city of Rhode Island. As a... Continue Reading →
You think that country music always comes from the South? Then, you got it wrong! On April 19th, Charlie Marie released an amazing EP, one of the best releases of this year. Where is she from? Providence, Rhode Island. The same day, The Lowdown Drifters released an album named "Last call for dreamers". Listening to... Continue Reading →
Jim Jarmush's new movie, named "The dead don't die", was presented at Cannes Film Festival and competes, there, for the main reward, la "Palme d'Or". I was lucky enough to watch this movie before its release in USA, as it was previously released in France on May 14th, due to its presence at the French... Continue Reading →
Country Music France launches today its first playlist. It's a 20 songs playlist, available on Spotify. For those who don't use this streaming platform, you can go to the list at the end of this post and look for the the songs wherever you want. Those songs, that are not in any specific order, were... Continue Reading →
Listening to Ben Jarrell's debut LP album, "Troubled Times", is like taking the DeLorean and time-travelling to this time where country music was born. The 10 songs included in this masterpiece of country music are revealing all the talent of this singer from South Alabama, now living in Nashville. Recorded at Southern Ground Studios, in... Continue Reading →
French singer Dick Rivers died on April 24th, the same day he was born. He was 74. This name won't be known by American people, but he was a true and steady lover of American culture and American music since he was young. Born in Nice, on the French Riviera, in 1945, he had a... Continue Reading →
Waylon Jennings once said, according to his son Terry : "You don't bash the things you hate. You support the things you love". I think Waylon's wise thought summarizes perfectly what Rich O'Toole is telling us with his last song, "Peter and Paul". Houston artist is well known for his excellent songwriting, in the great... Continue Reading →
RJ Chesney released his third studio album, "Amateur Revolution", on April 5th. This new album is quite different from the two previous, particularly for the way it was produced. In 2015, the LA singer, with roots in the South (Macon, Georgia and Biloxi, Mississippi), met Hans Peter Gundersen, a Norwegian artist and producer who was... Continue Reading →
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