About/Contact
Contact
You can direct emails to cmw |at| countrycalifornia.com. We’d love to hear from you.
If you’d like to send music for possible review (info and caveats), a mailing address is available on request. We also accept digital submissions through ReviewShine, an excellent online distribution service.
About the blog
Country California is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
Established since April 2008, Country California offers a wry survey of the modern country music landscape through a combination of editorials, recommendations, satirical news, and whatever else we can think up. Since we’re basically in it for the love of the music, we have a lot of freedom in terms of what we cover and how we cover it. We’re just trying to write the sort of country music blog that we would want to read. And by we I usually mean I. It’s just sort of comforting to talk about myself as though I were a group of people.
About the creator
This site represents the union of founder and primary author C.M. Wilcox’s three greatest passions: country music, writing, and comedy. A longtime fan and student of country music suffering from a chronic case of irreverence, Wilcox is still surprised to have found an audience for his often peculiar take on all things country. He resides near Sacramento, California – far from the beach, but thanks for asking.
Since October 2008, he has also been contributing to the web’s leading country music blog, The 9513.
Collaborators/Contributors
Trailer (Farce the Music) | Article Archive
As my partner in crime for Fake News, Trailer has been instrumental in keeping the ball rolling on one of the site’s most popular series. The man never runs out of good ideas and it’s a real treat to get to work with him.
What they’re saying…
“I think C.M. Wilcox is, at best, showing signs of an overactive imagination.”
- – Commenter at The 9513.
“insightful and often wickedly funny”
- – Chris Neal in Country Weekly.
“Absolutely terrible review! I spit at its feet, as well as the author.”
- – Commenter at The 9513.
“… like Chicken Soup for the Country Fan’s Soul.”
- – Dan Milliken of Country Universe.
“He is family oriented, which is a good thing. I also loved Mr. Mom too. Families today need good clean music to listen too, and that is what you find in Richie McDonald’s songs. I thought this review was not real fair to Richie!!”
- – Commenter at The 9513.
“I almost fell off my own chair. You are effin’ hilarious.”
- – J.R. Journey of My Kind of Country.
“Your site is stupid and meaningless and isn’t that well done. Have a good day.”
- – Steve vonBrandt, 1998 Big Bass World Champ and Hall of Fame angler.
“[Country California] features a “Fake News” section that has become something like country music’s version of farcical newspaper The Onion, or like an all-country online cousin to The Daily Show.”
- – Peter Cooper in The Tennessean.
“I advise the writer of this review to please grow up for goodness sakes.”
- – Commenter at The 9513.
“Love your site!”
- – Patrick Shields of Bob Kingsley’s Country Top 40 radio program.
“I love Danny Gokey’s voice. [...] By the way, his heart is a lot purer than your dark one.”
- – Danny Gokey fan.
“Full of fake country news, rife with sarcasm, and downright hilarious, Country California is the blog to check out if you’re looking for a laugh.”
- – GoTickets.com’s 15 Top Country Music Blogs.
“Like the mailman, C.M. always delivers.”
- – Commenter Andrew Leprich.
