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Your Take: Bad List, Good List?
In an email we received this week, one of our regular readers asked why the use of lists in the lyrics of a couple of recent single reviews was frowned upon. It’s a great question (see the latest mailbag for the other kind of question), so I decided to expand upon it and get feedback […]
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Nick’s Pick: Best Albums of 2006
This post was contributed by Nick Berry.
I know lists are supposed to come in nice numbers like “The Top Ten”, but you’ll have to make due with eight. I’m not sure what it is, but something about the following albums stuck with me and pulled me through the year, making them my personal favorites for […] -
Stocking Stuffers For Any Johnny Cash Fan
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Country Music Grammy Nominations
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)Kerosene
Miranda Lambert
Track from: Kerosene
[Epic]I Still Miss Someone
Martina McBride
[RCA Nashville]
Something’s Gotta Give
LeAnn Rimes
Track from: This Woman
[Curb Records]
Jesus, Take The Wheel
Carrie Underwood
Track from: Some Hearts
[Arista/Arista Nashville/19]
I Don’t Feel Like Loving You Today
Gretchen Wilson
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Brody’s Picks: Best Albums of 2006
I didn’t choose these albums based on guitar riffs or dissection of the lyrics, rythmn, and rhyme, because personally, I don’t know anything about all that stuff. I’m of the philosophy “it’s just good music, if you can feel it in your soul,” and that’s how I chose these albums as my personal favorites of […]
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The All-TIME 100 Albums
TIME magazine put together a list of the all time greatest albums titled the All-TIME 100. These lists are always subjective and everyone will have a different opinion, but they did a pretty good job of recognizing country music. The list includes country music greats like Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Ray […]
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