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The Big Cheese Gives Us ‘Everything’

When music is the guide a band can evolve over time to become its best self. Letting this happen organically will create the best results. You can not force good music. Our recent discovery The Big Cheese has developed over a 10 year career to create their own unique style. The group started as a […]

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Check Out Alicia G’s “Shake Down”

Alicia G has flirted with different genres through the years, but with her most recent dabblings in country music, I think she’s found a real center from which to develop some really exciting new material. Her latest single, titled “Shake Down,” is as rhythmic as its title suggests, but it’s not a beat-driven performance by […]

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Phil Hurley Rises From the Ashes With ‘The Firebird Sessions’

There is an amazing power of music to find a way to reach the world exactly when it should, even if that means being delayed by random circumstances. This musical fate has ruled for centuries and has delivered another new set of music in the form of Phil Hurley’s new record The Firebird Sessions. The […]

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B.B. Cole Outdoes Herself With New Album ‘Outgrowing Ourselves’

There’s been a dramatic influx of folk music masquerading as country in the past few years, but when you listen to something that has the pure tonality of an instant classic like B.B. Cole’s new record Outgrowing Ourselves, it’s easy to spot the real thing amongst all of the fakes. Instead of experimenting with a style […]

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Albert Cummings Says “Meet the Man”

If you think there are too many theatrics in mainstream country music, you’re hardly alone. For a number of years now a lot of diehard fans of the country genre have been disenchanted with the considerable indulgence in their favorite style of music, and judging from his new single “Meet the Man,” Albert Cummings is […]

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Joshua Ketchmark Comes Out ‘Covered In Blood’

One of the best parts of being a music writer is getting to hear new music before it gets released to the general public. Yes, I am a music snob. And yes I have listened to more unique songs in the last decade than most people will hear in their life. After reviewing the lead […]

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Glenn Valles Shares “Urban Cowboy”

Despite the retrospective theme of its lyrics, the new single “Urban Cowboy” from Glenn Valles is hardly a depressing country song. On the contrary, there’s something rather optimistic about the sheer size of its string arrangement, the glow of its harmonies, and the energy with which Valles addresses his audience – the likes of which […]

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Travis Watson Starts The Summer with “Bring ‘Em Beer”

In this judgment filled world we currently live in, it is a great power for an artist to not give a crap about any of that. Making music for yourself without caring about how others will react to it is the real power. Our recent discovery Travis Watson holds this power dearly and it is […]