It's almost like the entire music industry has memory holed Oliver Anthony. It was just two short years ago that he took a video of him hollering out in the woods all the way to

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14.06.2025

Beloved Country DJ Jeff Hoag Is Officially Out at WSM - Saving Country Music

Beloved and long-time DJ Jeff Hoag is out at radio station WSM in Nashville. As the weeknight host of "WSM At Night" as well as the Opry warm up show, Jeff Hoag became a familiar and beloved voice...

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14.06.2025

Album Review – Hailey Whitters – “Corn Queen” - Saving Country Music

Hailey Whitters makes for one of the most navigable bridges between the independent and mainstream, and the classic and contemporary. She offers something entertaining and enlightening to just...

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13.06.2025

This Is HUGE: Grammys Add Traditional Country Album Category - Saving Country Music

It's hard to overstate how big this is, both in the present tense, and for what it could mean for the future. The Recording Academy has just announced that for the upcoming season, there will be a...

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13.06.2025

New Tyler Childers Album “Snipe Hunter” is On The Way - Saving Country Music

The latest album from Tyler Childers will be named Snipe Hunter, and it will be produced by legendary music guru Rick Rubin. Childers has also released a studio version of "Nose On The Grindstone."

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12.06.2025

Laci Kaye Booth’s “George F Strait” is No F Good - Saving Country Music

Similar to all the Bro-Country songs that name drop "Cash" and "Hank" yet take no the teachings or sonic inspirations from these titans, this Laci Kaye Booth song is more insult than tribute.

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12.06.2025

Slackeye Slim Latest to Pull Music Amid False Streaming Fraud Notices - Saving Country Music

You can no longer navigate to your favorite DSP of choice (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) and spin any of Slackeye Slim's titles, thanks to yet another pernicious and pervasive issue plaguing the...

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12.06.2025

The Country Music Legacy of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson - Saving Country Music

The entirety of the music world mourns whenever a titan at the level of original Beach Boys member and musical mastermind Brian Wilson makes their exit from the mortal coil, leaving behind a...

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11.06.2025

Best Country and Roots Albums of 2025 So Far - Saving Country Music

As we reach the halfway pole of the musical year, it’s time to reflect back on the best albums that have been released so far. There are some great projects that you should make sure don’t slip...

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10.06.2025

Song Review – Nikki Lane’s “Woodruff City Limit” - Saving Country Music

It's often the greatest songs that are not written for an audience, but for the artist themselves to process through their emotions. But the rest of us can listen in, and often use great songs to...

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10.06.2025

Zach Top Announces New Album “Ain’t In It For My Health” - Saving Country Music

Zach Top has just announced the title and release date for what will immediately become one of the most anticipated albums on 2025. To be called 'Ain’t In It For My Health,' it will be released on...

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10.06.2025

Country Artist Conner Smith Fatally Hits 77-Year-Old Woman - Saving Country Music

Big Machine/Valory Music artist Conner Smith struck a 77-year-old woman as she was crossing the street at a designated crosswalk in Nashville on Sunday evening, June 8th. She later died.

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09.06.2025

Megyn Kelly, Take Your Beyoncé Call Out as a Victory - Saving Country Music

Megyn Kelly. Babe. Take the win. What are you doing acting like an aggrieved party here? Beyoncé's calling you out on the big video boards of her current world tour? Well congratulations then...

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08.06.2025

‘New York Times’ Article Finally Gets Country Music Right - Saving Country Music

The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications have received fair criticism here for missing the moment in country and roots. But a new New York Times article gets it right.

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07.06.2025

Album Review – Jesse Daniel’s “Son of the San Lorenzo” - Saving Country Music

"Son of the San Lorenzo" feels like Jesse Daniel's most complete, involved, and thoughtful work overall, and adds to a growing catalog of high caliber country.

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06.06.2025

Life, Death, Love, and Murder: The Ballad of Johnny Rodriguez - Saving Country Music

Of all the harrowing, tragic, and redemptive stories in the history of country music, pioneering Hispanic country star Johnny Rodriguez might have the rest of the field beat.

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06.06.2025

Album Review – Weldon Henson’s “Stone Cold Country Gold” - Saving Country Music

If you're looking for the real deal in Texas honky tonk music straight from the most iconic dance halls in the state, Weldon Henson is your man, and "Stone Gold Country Gold" is your album.

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05.06.2025

We Need To Talk About Music Journalism and Publicity - Saving Country Music

The idea that print journalism and music media can just trundle forward with business as usual acting like the entire industry isn't in many ways imploding underneath us doesn't make sense for anyone.

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05.06.2025

Album Review – Big City Brian Wright’s “Sky Trucker” - Saving Country Music

Country traditionalist Big City Brian Wright isn't the first to record a country trucker album, and he won't be the last. But he is the first to take a country trucker album, and make it fly.

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04.06.2025

25 Years Ago: Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw Arrested for Stealing a Horse - Saving Country Music

When you think of Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, you don't exactly think of a couple of country music "Outlaws." Horse thievery isn't exactly what comes to mind either, nor does disorderly conduct...

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04.06.2025

Molly Tuttle Announces New Album, New Direction - Saving Country Music

Molly Tuttle will no longer be a bluegrass performer, at least not for this next season of her career. Her new album called "So Long Little Miss Sunshine" is being sold as a departure from her...

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03.06.2025

The Enduring Legacy of Colter Wall’s “Imaginary Appalachia” - Saving Country Music

It's hard to believe that it's been a decade since someone probably mentioned to you that you should check out this really cool, but really obscure EP from a Canadian guy that sounded like he'd...

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03.06.2025

Rodney Crowell Draws Inspiration from Collaborators on Upcoming Album - Saving Country Music

At 74 years old, Crowell is still refusing to pack it in, and still has plenty to say. And for his upcoming album "Airline Highway," he's getting a lot of lift from the collaborators who appear...

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02.06.2025

Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#159) - Saving Country Music

Country music doesn't belong to the suits in Nashville. It belongs to YOU, the actual fans of country, and we're taking it back one song at a time. You can find many of those songs here.

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01.06.2025

New Tyler Childers Album Will Be Produced by Rick Rubin - Saving Country Music

We don't have many more details just yet. But Tyler Childers will have a new album coming out likely in the next few months, and legendary producer and music guru Rick Rubin will be the man in the...

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01.06.2025

Miranda Lambert Named Official “Texas State Musician” for 2025 - Saving Country Music

Lindale, TX native Miranda Lambert is officially the Texas State Musician, Non-Classical" for 2025 according to the The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), and the Texas State Legislature.

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31.05.2025

Album Review – The Castellows – “Homecoming” - Saving Country Music

Their music feels like it springs from a sepia photograph capturing a moment of the past in the era of homesteads, lace, and corduroy, with sister harmonies awaking something both archaic and...

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30.05.2025

Jamey Johnson Reveals New Tour with a Very Meaningful Name - Saving Country Music

Jamey Johnson has just announced the dates for "The Last Honky Tonk Tour" kicking off on June 4th. The 36-date headlining tour will go all across the United States, with more dates to be added in...

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30.05.2025

Sunny Sweeney Gets Ready for a “Rhinestone Requiem” - Saving Country Music

Taking time from touring and recording her shows for SiriusXM's Outlaw channel and Willie's Roadhouse, Sunny Sweeney is readying the release of her latest album "Rhinestone Requiem."

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29.05.2025

Beloved Country Drummer Mark Laws Murdered in Home Shooting - Saving Country Music

Tragic news out of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee as it's been confirmed that beloved country music drummer, bandleader, producer, and studio owner Mark Laws was murdered in a domestic dispute on May 25th.

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29.05.2025

DelFest 2025 Showcases The Best in Bluegrass and Beyond - Saving Country Music

DelFest, held on Memorial day weekend each year in Cumberland, Maryland at the Allegheny County Fairgrounds is now in its 16th year and going strong.

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29.05.2025

Shaboozey’s Right & Wrong to Side Eye Carter Family as Country’s “Inventor” - Saving Country Music

In the teleprompter copy that Megan Moroney read, she also said "...and this award went to The Carter Family, who basically invented country music." This inspired a side-eyed look from Shaboozey.

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28.05.2025

Album Review – Morgan Wallen’s “I’m The Problem” - Saving Country Music

"I'm The Problem" sounds like 37 slightly different versions of the same song over and over. resulting in a grayish goulash of a mono-genre sound for many of these tracks.

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28.05.2025

Garth Brooks Jokes Don’t Land in Tom Segura Comedy Series - Saving Country Music

Through the six episodes, Tom Segura portrays dark characters in “unthinkable situations and fantasies." One such character is a “global country music superstar” who kidnaps his own fans named Rex...

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27.05.2025

Album Review – Sam Stoane’s “Tales Of The Dark West” - Saving Country Music

Even if you weren't a fan of country and Western music previously, after a spin through "Tales Of The Dark West," you'll be wearing out your friends and family about its beauty. Like the feminine...

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26.05.2025

Lainey Wilson Offers Up Her Summer Song, “Somewhere Over Laredo” - Saving Country Music

In the coming weeks, the country music candidates for what will be considered the 2025 "Song of the Summer" will start to align, and Lainey Wilson has offered up a new single that certainly could...

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25.05.2025

Alex Williams to Make Hair Metal Into Country on New Album - Saving Country Music

Bust out the leopard print spandex, grow out the ol' hairdo and kink it out with a curly permanent, and steal your sister's eyeliner and rouge because it's time to fully embrace the hair metal era...

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24.05.2025

Album Review – Ken Pomeroy’s “Cruel Joke” - Saving Country Music

Both Ken Pomeroy and her new album "Cruel Joke" are quickly being offered up by the initiated whenever names are requested for the best new music discoveries.

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23.05.2025

We All Know Where This Gavin Adcock Thing Is Headed - Saving Country Music

It's not necessarily the music of Gavin Adcock that has become so predictable that it veers into the realm of cliché. It's his behavioral pattern that we have seen play out in music ad nauseum.

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23.05.2025

Catalog of Songwriting Legend Mickey Newbury Finally Being Reissued - Saving Country Music

Mickey Newbury is one of the most criminally-overlooked, though critically-important songwriters in American history. Though he's most often associated with country music, his songs and influence...

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Oliver Anthony Proves He’s No One Hit Wonder with “Scornful Woman” - Saving Country Music

Beloved Country DJ Jeff Hoag Is Officially Out at WSM - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Hailey Whitters – “Corn Queen” - Saving Country Music

This Is HUGE: Grammys Add Traditional Country Album Category - Saving Country Music

New Tyler Childers Album “Snipe Hunter” is On The Way - Saving Country Music

Laci Kaye Booth’s “George F****** Strait” is No F****** Good - Saving Country Music

Slackeye Slim Latest to Pull Music Amid False Streaming Fraud Notices - Saving Country Music

The Country Music Legacy of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson - Saving Country Music

Best Country and Roots Albums of 2025 So Far - Saving Country Music

Song Review – Nikki Lane’s “Woodruff City Limit” - Saving Country Music

Zach Top Announces New Album “Ain’t In It For My Health” - Saving Country Music

Country Artist Conner Smith Fatally Hits 77-Year-Old Woman - Saving Country Music

Megyn Kelly, Take Your Beyoncé Call Out as a Victory - Saving Country Music

‘New York Times’ Article Finally Gets Country Music Right - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Jesse Daniel’s “Son of the San Lorenzo” - Saving Country Music

Life, Death, Love, and Murder: The Ballad of Johnny Rodriguez - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Weldon Henson’s “Stone Cold Country Gold” - Saving Country Music

We Need To Talk About Music Journalism and Publicity - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Big City Brian Wright’s “Sky Trucker” - Saving Country Music

25 Years Ago: Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw Arrested for Stealing a Horse - Saving Country Music

Molly Tuttle Announces New Album, New Direction - Saving Country Music

The Enduring Legacy of Colter Wall’s “Imaginary Appalachia” - Saving Country Music

Rodney Crowell Draws Inspiration from Collaborators on Upcoming Album - Saving Country Music

Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#159) - Saving Country Music

New Tyler Childers Album Will Be Produced by Rick Rubin - Saving Country Music

Miranda Lambert Named Official “Texas State Musician” for 2025 - Saving Country Music

Album Review – The Castellows – “Homecoming” - Saving Country Music

Jamey Johnson Reveals New Tour with a Very Meaningful Name - Saving Country Music

Sunny Sweeney Gets Ready for a “Rhinestone Requiem” - Saving Country Music

Beloved Country Drummer Mark Laws Murdered in Home Shooting - Saving Country Music

DelFest 2025 Showcases The Best in Bluegrass and Beyond - Saving Country Music

Shaboozey’s Right & Wrong to Side Eye Carter Family as Country’s “Inventor” - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Morgan Wallen’s “I’m The Problem” - Saving Country Music

Garth Brooks Jokes Don’t Land in Tom Segura Comedy Series - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Sam Stoane’s “Tales Of The Dark West” - Saving Country Music

Lainey Wilson Offers Up Her Summer Song, “Somewhere Over Laredo” - Saving Country Music

Alex Williams to Make Hair Metal Into Country on New Album - Saving Country Music

Album Review – Ken Pomeroy’s “Cruel Joke” - Saving Country Music

We All Know Where This Gavin Adcock Thing Is Headed - Saving Country Music

Catalog of Songwriting Legend Mickey Newbury Finally Being Reissued - Saving Country Music

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