How Hip-Hop Stole Country Music: The Arrival of the Mono-Genre
All of a sudden hip-hop influences are dominating the top of the country music charts, asserting just as much influence, if not more than indigenous country influences, with a bevy of new country rap...
View ArticleThe Most Notorious “Gone Country” Moments
In 2013, stories of entertainers that "go country" are routine occurrences instead of reasons for surprise, intrigue, or outrage, because country music has officially become the default repository for...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Says “That Is Not Country Music, I’m Sorry”
It was looking like Lewis was falling right in line with the procession of other country music outsiders fleeing to the country genre in the twilight of their careers to find commercial strength. But...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Slams Tyler Farr’s “Redneck Crazy” in Alt. Version
On Friday, Jan. 24th, Aaron Lewis was playing a show at the Thirsty Cowboy in Medina, Ohio, and during his set he decided to take the recent #1 song "Redneck Crazy" by Tyler Farr to task. "I fucking...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Stops Concert, Twists Off On “Molesters”
We've seen these moments more and more at concerts, especially country music concerts where an artist has to stop everything down because someone in the crowd is acting completely inappropriate, but...
View ArticleJason Isbell, Jamey Johnson + More to Tribute Lynyrd Skynyrd
On November 12th, artists from across the country and Southern rock world will be coming together to pay tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd in a unique way. Not your typical tribute concert, and not your...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Screws Up Words to World Series National Anthem
Aaron Lewis only had one task Sunday Night, ONE TASK! ... before the upsurging Kansas City Royals took on the San Francisco Giants. And despite the patriotism he crammed down our throats in his first...
View ArticleSong Review – Tyler Farr’s “A Guy Walks Into A Bar”
Last time I was paying attention to Tyler Farr, he was touching off a firestorm for singing about parking his truck in his ex's yard and whipping beer cans at her window. Then Colt Ford and the cast of...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Signs to Big Machine, Releases Protest Song “That Ain’t Country”
Aaron Lewis, the frontman for the emo noise band Staind, whose been dabbling in country music for years now, has just signed to Dot records---a division of the Big Machine Label Group---and will be...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Calls Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt “Mother$%ckers.” Again.
But this is the thing about Aaron Lewis and his anti-country stance: Normally this type of thing would solicit high praise from an outlet like Saving Country Music. And hey, I will give him credit for...
View ArticleAaron Lewis Backpedals / Bobby Bones Disses Saving Country Music
On the Bobby Bones Show Thursday (9-15) morning (listen at the bottom), Bobby spoke to Aaron Lewis after his recent blowup at pop country artists, and what did he do? Aaron backpeddled and admitted he...
View ArticleAlbum Review –“Sinner” by Aaron Lewis
If you want your musical experience in life to be the most fulfilling and enjoyable, then you have to be without prejudice when approaching music. There are many reasons on paper that one might decide...
View ArticleNow With #1 Album, Aaron Lewis Continues to Backpedal From Country Comments
Celebrating the #1 record in country this week with his Big Machine Records debut Sinner responsible for 39,000 copies sold, Aaron Lewis continues to try and walk a difficult line between being a major...
View ArticleWhere Scott Borchetta and Big Machine Records Went Wrong
Despite the rumors and speculation, and Saving Country Music once naming him the "Country Music Antichrist," apparently Scott Borchetta is indeed a mortal after all. We're still trying to sift out what...
View ArticleFate of Dot Records Artists Still Uncertain After Big Machine Officially...
What we know for sure is that Dot Records is no longer a label, at least for now. What we don't know about is the fate of some of the artists that called the label home. Maddie & Tae, Drake White,...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Alex Williams “Better Than Myself”
There is no need to mince words here or parse expectations. Alex Williams debut record Better Than Myself is traditional country music. And if it needs any qualifiers, it would be that it leans more...
View ArticleJason Isbell Says There Aren’t Great Conservative Songwriters
"If it ever gets to be too much for you, there are a lot of great songwriters out there who agree with you politically. Oh wait, no there aren’t," Jason Isbell responded to a Twitter user. But this...
View ArticleRay Wylie Hubbard Signs to Big Machine (Yes, You Read That Right)
Well, if you thought you were already swimming through an upside down world where the NBA and NHL seasons have just been suspended along with pretty much every major music tour and festival to speak of...
View ArticleMerle Haggard Tribute Concert to Finally Be Released
Unless you were there in person, you missed it. But now we'll all get the opportunity to see the tribute concert that transpired on April 6th, 2017, when a hefty list of musical talent all assembled at...
View ArticleOn Aaron Lewis and “Am I The Only One”
The fundamental reason "Am I the Only One" is resonating so widely is because it's tapping into an unfulfilled and voraciously hungry desire for counterpoints in popular American culture. In a very...
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