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Five Questions with Brandy Clark
As sometimes happens with good songwriters breaking through, I was a Brandy Clark fan before I even realized it. "The Day She Got Divorced" by Reba McEntire. "Crazy Women" by LeAnn Rimes. More recently, I've singled out Joanna Smith's "We Can't Be Friends," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart," and The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two" as worthwhile songs on mainstream country radio. When the name Brandy Clark finally crossed my desk and I glanced through her credits to find that she had … [Read More...]
Prime Cuts: January 2013
As my dear old Grandpa used to say, it's not how many times you fall down that matters, but how many times you get back up.* In that spirit, I'll ignore the fact that Prime Cuts came completely off the rails toward the end of last year and kick off 2013 with the greatest optimism, as if there hadn't been a months-long lapse in coverage. Here are the best country album tracks of January 2013, listenable as a quick-and-dirty Amazon sampler (below) or a robust Spotify playlist (bottom of … [Read More...]
10 Current Country Singles That Aren’t Completely Terrible
It's been about half a year since our last roundup of likable country radio singles, which seems to be just enough time for playlists to turn over and a new batch of songs worth mentioning to come along. If you're listening more than once every six months, you're hearing a lot of the same stuff over and over... and it's not necessarily the best stuff, either. If you're still somewhat interested in what's happening on FM radio, this'll catch you up quickly without the corny DJs and hip-hop … [Read More...]
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