From France with love for Country Music
20 years ago, Joel and Ethan Coen released one of their most famous movies, "O Brother, Where Art Thou". I was a big fan of their movies, particularly Fargo, Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing and of course the iconic big Lebowski, so I watched it in my movie theater as soon as it was released. I... Continue Reading →
All Saints Day is the day to remember about the artists who passed away this year. For country music genre, it has been a tragic year, with the loss of a lot of legends. It's time to remember, particularly, seven artists who left us, two of them because of the coronavirus. 2020 has not ended... Continue Reading →
Country Music France Top 30 Spotify playlist includes the blog's current 30 favorite songs. Together with the albums, EP's and song reviews, this playlist is an important way for this blog to share actual songs that belong to country music, red dirt, americana or southern rock genres. I just updated it for the 6th time,... Continue Reading →
Rich O' Toole released on June 26th his 7th studio album, named "New York", by way of Average Joe's Entertainment and its imprint Buffalo Roam Records, three years after "American Kid", his previous LP. The Houston native artist wrote all songs, except "Coke", a great Flickerstick's song that he sings with Brandin Lea, lead singer... Continue Reading →
Summer is here and it's time to think about country and red dirt albums that were released this year so far. I propose you a list of 10 albums particularly impressive and brilliant in country music or red dirt genre. It's not a classification and there's no particular order between them. I chose 10 albums... Continue Reading →
Donovan Howard is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in a small town of South-East Kentucky. After performing in several bands, he began a solo career and released two LP albums in 2018, "Made in the USA" and "This Old Guitar & Me" and a great single, "Sinner & Saint", in 2019. Two years after... Continue Reading →
One year ago, The Lowdown Drifters released its sophomore album, the acclaimed "Last Call For Dreamers". This brilliant LP, reviewed by Country Music France (https://countrymusicfrance.fr/2019/06/10/album-review-the-lowdown-drifters-last-call-for-dreamers/), is a reference for red dirt music lovers. The country rock band from Stanwood, Washington State, released last week a new song, "Alright", produced by Tim allen, that is absolutely... Continue Reading →
Country Music France Top 30 Spotify playlist was created 6 months ago. It includes the blog's current 30 favorite songs. Together with the albums, EP's and song reviews, this playlist is an important way for this blog to share actual songs that belong to country music, red dirt, americana or southern rock genres. I just... Continue Reading →
It's finally released! "Lamentations", the brand new album of American Aquarium, so awaited, is finally here. Two years after the excellent "Things Change", that Country Music France had ranked #4 in its 2018 Top 10 albums, and fifteen years after the debut album of the band, "Antique Hearts", we have a new LP from the... Continue Reading →
"Lost in the city lights", the new album of Johnny Falstaff, was released on February 28th. It's the 8th album of the Texan artist, six years after his last one, "Metro Billy". Six years is a long time, but it was worth the wait: the new album, a bunch of honky tonk songs, is awesome!... Continue Reading →
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