At 16 years old, Conner Sweet began songwriting and playing music at local Honky Tonk Bars in Nashville, Tennessee. 7 years prior, Sweet picked up his first guitar igniting his passion for music which would take him to become a professional singer and songwriter. “[Music] was all around me. My granddaddy played Hawaiian Steel at […]
The fifty-three year member of the Grand Ole Opry®, Jeannie Seely will celebrate her 80th birthday with an album release this August. “Miss Country Soul” has dabbled in writing and acting in recent years on top of releasing numerous award-winning hits. Seely’s roots are in Titusville, Pennsylvania- where the world’s first oil well was drilled
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Lori McKenna will be preforming an acoustic livestream concert on Friday, July 24 from Club Passim, a venue in her hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The highly anticipated event features songs from McKenna’s new album, The Balladeer which will be released the same day of the livestream event. The venue, Club Passim is a non-profit organization
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In 1987, Mary Chapin Carpenter signed as a recording artist with Columbia Records, releasing her first album, Hometown Girl that same year. Off of that album, Carpenter had two Top Ten singles on country radio, “Never Had It So Good” and “Quittin’ Time“. Since then, Carpenter has released a total of 14 studio albums, four
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Well, here we are again! The second round up of the very best in full-on new country music releases that have caught my attention in the last few weeks. My radio show The Country Mile concentrates on what I call the ‘proper’ stuff, so no pop mainstream artists are covered in this column. I get
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Welcome to Your Monthly Update of Music You Need to Hear First of all, a massive thank you to Becky for having me along as part of the Country Evolution team. It’s an honour to be here. [Note the spelling of ‘honour’, which will give you a clue that I am from overseas, here in
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Walker Montgomery “Like My Daddy Done It” Jon Wolfe Live at The Legendary Gruene Hall – Album David Myhre “Disguise” Christie Huff “Love-Ish” (Acoustic) Crawford & Power “Letting You Go” Kree Harrison “Make it Easy“
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