EXCLUSIVE: Whiskey & Co. “Rust Colors” album stream, plus interview
Here at Country Music Pride, we appreciate the finer things in life. We love whiskey, and we love good company. So naturally, we’d love a band called Whiskey & Company. And it turns out Whiskey & Co. loves us –– so much in fact that Country Music Pride is exclusively streaming their new album, Rust […]
High Sierra Reaches New Heights
Got big 4th of July weekend plans? Instead of getting wasted and shooting off fireworks, how about doing something slightly less damaging to your health. CountryMusicPride.com, with their infinite wisdom of all things awesome, has caught wind of the 20th Annual High Sierra Music Festival in California over 4th of July weekend. This year’s lineup […]
Q&A: Blackberry Smoke
The faint aroma of incense eased through the air of Nashville’s Mercy Lounge as the five longhaired, Skynyrd-esque rockers of Blackberry Smoke took the stage. Often cited as “Too Country for Rock, Too Rock for Country”, Blackberry Smoke delivered a foot stompin’, lighter-wavin’, ‘hell yeah’ of a good time that fully lived up to the […]
Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams and Beck Bring New Music to ‘True Blood’
“Who isn’t a fan of nakedness and vampirism?” Elvis Costello jokes when asked to sum up the appeal ofTrue Blood. Hopefully, more rock fans will soon be too. For the third season of HBO’s hit drama, the show’s producers have lined up an impressive roster of artists to contribute to an eclectic soundtrack. Beck, Robbie […]
Husky, Sherrill inducted into the County Music Hall of Fame
Ferlin Husky and record producer Billy Sherrill were sworn in as new members of the County Music Hall on May 23. Ferlin is most known for the No. 1 hit song “Gone,” which spent 10 weeks at the top spot in 1957, and “Wings of a Dove,” which also spent 10 weeks at No. 1. […]
Alan Jackson honors fallen miners
Alan Jackson over the weekend kicked off his Freight Train Tour by performing a benefit concert for the fallen West Virginian miners and rescue workers of the Upper Big Branch mining disaster, which happened in April. The 27 families affected, and the two whose family members survived the tragedy, received free tickets to the show […]
MBird, A Fine Artist Indeed
MBird is singer/songwriter Megan Birdsall, a gifted musician who was born in Motown, grew up in the home of jump jazz, and lives part time in Music City. Her haunting melodies and evocative lyrics rest on a bed of traditional country instruments playing anything but traditional country. Influenced by a diverse array of writers such […]
Truth & Salvage Co.
Every so often you come across a band whose music sort of reaches out and shakes hands with your soul. That’s just what the music of LA’s own Truth & Salvage Co. did to me. It’s a nice feeling, too, considering the vastly diluted pool of modern Americana rock bands fending for a spot on […]
Declan McGarry – Self-Titled Debut – (LT Records)
Declan McGarry is obsessed with summertime and being seventeen again. That’s what you might think on on the opening “Summer Heat” and subsequent songs like “Seventeen” and “Summers of My Life.” But hold on. This 25-year-old Canadian who hails from Winnipeg — hometown of the legendary Neil Young and an early influence — has much […]
Dave Matthews joins Nashville stars in rallying against mountaintop removal mining
“Having this show at the Ryman has special meaning,” Emmylou Harris said as she summed up the feelings behind the Music Saves Mountains benefit concert held Wednesday night (May 19) at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. “If the Ryman is the mother church of country music, then the Appalachian Mountains are its sacred ground. We […]
