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Revisiting this year’s headlines
2010 began on a slow news beat, as the top story in January was the buzz surround the Grammy’s at the end of the month. While Taylor Swift continued to define the term superstar, several more months...
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J.R. Journey’s Top 10 Singles and Tracks of 2010
Country radio must be getting better. My favorites list this year include more actual radio hits than ever before. Of the ten songs below, two were #1 hits, five more (including my top pick) hit the...
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J.R. Journey’s Top 10 Albums of 2010
So many of my perennial favorites released new material this year that no room was left on the top 10 for new faces. It wouldn’t have been hard to double this list as I bought twice as much music as...
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Album Review: Diamond Rio –‘One More Day’
Diamond Rio’s sixth studio album was released nearly three full years after Unbelievable had dropped at retail stores. To bridge the gap between the projects, the lead single “Stuff” was released in...
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Favorite country songs of the 1970s: Part 3
The 1970s were not my favorite decade for country music but it was the decade in which I did my largest amount of listening to country radio, having the good fortune to have such country giants as WSUN...
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You didn’t have a good time: songs about struggling with alcohol
The recent unfortunate news of Randy Travis’s apparently alcohol-fuelled decline has prompted me to bring together these songs about people struggling to give up alcohol. Randy’s own recording of ‘You...
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Classic Rewind: Dolly Parton & Friends –‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’
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By 2003, Clay Walker’s popularity with country radio was on the wane. A Few Questions, his first and only album for RCA was somewhat successful in helping him reversing the trend, with the first two of...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Lisa McHugh –‘#country’
Lisa McHugh’s most recent album was released just about a year ago. While its predecessors were heavily reliant on cover versions of other artists’ hits, none of the tracks on #country are originals....
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