1.0 – What is it about rock & roll that makes people feel good?

For me its the feeling I got when I heard Lou Reed “Walk On The Wild Side” on the radio when i was a boy has never really gone away. It made me love rock so much. I was…

For those who believe real country music has fled Nashville, the recent CMA Awards would do little to ease your notion. Bombast, smoke, lasers and lots of the arena rock are the anti-thesis of steel-soaked, fiddle-laced songs built on melody, submerged in big emotions and turned with hooks that can’t be forgotten.

But for the true believers and in-the-knowers, a handful of insiders and old school players have conjured 45 RPM,  a last Wednesday of every month celebration of classic…

“So here I am on my stool tonight

Yeah, I’m practicing for the afterlife,

Cause when I’m nothing but a pile of bones

I’m gonna come back as a country song.”

“I meet a lot of teenagers,” Alan Jackson says. “It’s surprising how many like real classic country music… They go out and find it, even if they can’t hear it on the radio. They know.”

He pauses for a moment, half- laughs. He’s been here before.

“It’s funny,”…

Marty Stuart's music is everything country should be.

The minute I put his just-released album "Tear the Woodpile Down" into my player, I felt as if I had come home. There's something about the instrumentation -- especially the lush steel guitar, banjo and of course Stuart's crisp, yet twangy emotion-laden vocals, that touched my heart.

I'm not a truck driver, don't regularly have lonely times, and am not searching for love, so why is it that I could easily imagine…

1.Glen Campbell

Carmageddon Songs...



Guy Clark "LA Freeway" "If I could just get off of this LA freeway without gettin' killed or caught..."

The Byrds "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"…

A review of the new Brooklyncountry.com CD sampler by Neville Elder

When I was kid stuck out in a small farming town in Somerset (that’s England y’all ). I discovered country music’s new wave watching ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ on the BBC. It was my own compilation record. I remember watching ‘Lone Justice’, ‘…

10 American songs to celebrate Independence day.

The Fightin' Side of Me by Merle Haggard "If you don't love it leave it."

"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Townes Van Zandt

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I got to my seat a little later than I would have liked for last night’s Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson show. The two legends are on tour together, swapping stories and songs in an intimate stage setting in theaters.



I arrived in the middle of the first song of the night, Kristofferson’s “Shipwrecked in the 80’s”, which he dedicated mid-song to the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what really tripped me up was the quality of Kristofferson’s voice.…