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Hey Justin Timberlake, How About Putting Chris Stapleton on Your Super Bowl...
Give it some thought Timberlake, if the wheels aren't already in motion. Give the fans of true country and good music in general a reason to tune into the Super Bowl halftime show in 2018, even if it's...
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The Biggest Takeaways from Sturgill Simpson’s Busking Set at the 2017 CMA Awards
As the CMA Awards were transpiring Wednesday (11-8) night inside the Bridgestone Arena, Sturgill Simpson decided to take his guitar, his Grammy for Album of the Year from 2016, and do a busking set in...
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Cody Jinks Performs for Veterans & Sutherland Springs Hero Ahead of Recording...
Veteran's Day 2017 (11-11) saw Cody Jinks in Boerne, TX near San Antonio, playing to a capacity crowd at The Roundup, with a special tribute to veterans, and for a hero who recently made national...
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2018 Will Be The Year of Cody Jinks in Country
Cody Jinks will release a new record in 2018. It will be named Lifers and it will be delivered in "no later than June." And we also know it will be Cody Jinks, because that is who he is, and what he...
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Cody Jinks Planning “Loud and Heavy” Festival in August
Country revivalist Cody Jinks and his management are planning to launch a new festival this August that will be curated by Jinks himself. The news comes out of the announcement earlier this week that...
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Jason Isbell Explains Why It’s Important to Criticize Bad Music
It comes up so often in the realm of music criticism: "If you don't like something, just don't listen." But they're missing the point. The point is not just about what music you like or you don't like....
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Cody Jinks Announces Lineup for Inaugural Loud & Heavy Fest
Hold on to your asses, because it's going to get loud, heavy, twangy, country, and crunchy when Cody Jinks circles the wagons in his native Ft. Worth and puts on one hell of a party he's dubbing the...
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Whitey Morgan to Play The Mother Church of Country Music
Joining artists such as Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, and Cody Jinks, now Michigan native, California convert, and hard-charging traditional country artist Whitey Morgan and his backing...
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Whiskey Myers Receives Massive Boost After “Yellowstone” Appearance
Fans of the Texas Music Southern Rock band Whiskey Myers had fair warning they would be featured prominently in the most recent episode of the Paramount Network's original series Yellowstone starring...
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Album Review –“Lifers” By Cody Jinks
True country fans don't need to be told that trying to hold onto the roots of the music has been a war of attrition over the last 20 years or so. As more legends and oldtimers pass away or get put out...
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Cody Jinks: “F**k Nashville, We’ll Start Our Own Damn Club”
If you wanted to know just how committed he is to doing things his own way, how inspired he is by the oldtimers and Outlaws that came before him and the camaraderie they showed towards each other, well...
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Whitey Morgan Announces New Album “Hard Times and White Lines”
Mark it down on your calendar, then underline it, circle it, hang pulsating string lights around it, train a spotlight on that son-of-a-bitch, tell your boss it's a national country music holiday and...
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Whitey Morgan Releases New Song “Honky Tonk Hell”
As the first song off the just-announced fourth studio album Hard Times and White Lines, "Honky Tonk Hell" finds Whitey Morgan and the 78's singing about what they know best. Slow and plodding like a...
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Cody Jinks’ Loud and Heavy Fest Announces Lineup & Schedule
The inaugural Loud and Heavy Fest curated by Cody Jinks is about to be unleashed on Ft. Worth, Texas this Saturday, August 18th, and they've released the lineup and time schedule for the event. Loud...
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Album Review – Whitey Morgan’s “Hard Times and White Lines”
Screw it all. You want to save country music? Put it on the back of the Buick City Badass Whitey Morgan along with his backing band The 78's, and let them carry the whole damn genre. Whitey Morgan is...
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Album Review- Ward Davis’s “Asunder” EP
On the three-bearded hydra that is Cody Jinks, Whitey Morgan, and Ward Davis, Ward is the one you turn to when you're looking for something more thoughtful, more introspective, and where the...
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Saving Country Music’s 2018 Artist of the Year
Music is just one of the many factors to weigh when naming the Artist of the Year. Unlike Album of the Year nominees, and Song of the Year nominees, this is not a distinction that is put up for a vote...
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Cody Jinks Shaves Off His Iconic Beard
For years Cody's huge beard has been a signature feature of the Ft. Worth-based singer and traditional country artist. It was just one of many bushy faces sported by a fraternity of performers that...
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The Stagecoach Festival Jumped The Shark in 2019
As the alternative to the bigger, two-weekend all-genre gathering called Coachella, The Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California every April is supposed to give country music its turn on the famous...
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Album / Movie Review – Sturgill Simpson’s “Sound & Fury”
Add Sturgill Simpson to the list of things in society that are extremely polarizing, right up there with politics, religion, LeBron James, pumpkin spice, and whatever else people get worked up about,...
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Sheriff Has Person of Interest in Cody Jinks Threat, Show Rescheduled
On October 26th, the Cody Jinks show at the Nacogdoches County Expo Center was canceled on the day of the performance after an unidentified individual called the venue and left a threat against the...
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Tumbleweed & Wild Hare Country Festivals Won’t Happen in 2020
Two important independent festivals that are working hard to support and expand Texas, Red Dirt, Americana, and independent country music beyond its traditional borders will not be happening in 2020....
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Loretta Lynn Is Fighting Mad About Country Music Dying
"I think that they’re completely losing it. And I think that’s a sad situation because we should never let country music die. I think that every type of music should be saved, and country is one of the...
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Larry Campbell “Sicker Than He’s Ever Been” with the Coronavirus
Well-respected country and roots multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell is "sicker than he’s ever been in his life” after contracting the Coronavirus, according the Campbell's wife and frequent...
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Whiskey Myers Curated Firewater Festival Announces Lineup
Texas-based Southern rock band Whiskey Myers is set to launch their own personally-curated festival and annual gathering for their fans called the Firewater Festival, and they have just announced the...
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Billy Joe Shaver Wasn’t Just a Legend. He Was a Hero.
Billy Joe Shaver wasn't just a musical legend and icon, or an "Outlaw" as we like to call the artists who work outside of the Nashville system. He was a hero, in both music, and in life. What is a...
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Album/Video Review – Midland’s “The Sonic Ranch”
I listened to the entirety of 'The Sonic Ranch' album by Midland and watched all of the 45-minute documentary so you don't have to. It's not that it's terrible, or in any way offensive. For what it is,...
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10 Badass Cody Jinks Moments
That's right, Saving Country Music is brushing off this old feature, and featuring another name from the modern era of country music badasses in Cody Jinks after his recent run over the last few years...
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Cody Jinks Officially Forms Own Record Label, Preps New Albums
Cody Jinks has officially formed his own record label called Late August Records, and looks to be prepping the release of not one, but two new albums in late 2021---one as his latest effort in the...
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Born & Raised Fest 2022 Offers INSANE Lineup
Even if you have to sell an internal organ to swing it, you still may want to consider how to get your ass to the Born & Raised Festival on September 16th, 17th, and 18th in Pryor, Oklahoma, just...
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Nikki Lane Readies New Album “Denim & Diamonds”
Writing and performing songs is just one of the many ways Nikki Lane contributes, and instead of just jotting down a few ditties to satisfy some arbitrary release timeline, she decided to savor and...
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Born & Raised Fest 2022 Featured Top Flight of Independent Country
Held on the same grounds as the massive Rocklahoma gathering, Born & Raised boasted one of the best lineups all year on an incredibly crowded weekend. Just the Friday night lineup alone was worth...
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Whitey Morgan Sets 2024 Tour, Grand Ole Opry Debut
Fans of the staunch country music Outlaw will have ample opportunities to see him in 2024 as Whitey will be hitting the road hard and heavy this spring and summer, including opening some big shows for...
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Album Review – Tony Martinez’s “Everywhere West”
It was a mixture of surprise, astonishment, and supreme happiness when someone reached out and said that Tony Martinez was finally releasing his debut album. Truth be told, Tony should probably be...
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Whitey Morgan Releases First New Music in Six Years
Though we don't have a proper release date on any new album just yet, we do have a badass new cut called "Let Me Roll" chronicling Whitey's road dog mentality that has been a calling card of his...
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Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#146)
The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist is built to keep you informed on all the best songs and albums coming out right here, right now in country and roots music. It’s available on most all streaming...
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Hero: The Many Deaths of Billy Joe Shaver
From suffering a heart attack mid performance on stage, to playing Russian roulette with an automatic pistol, these are the many times Outlaw country legend Billy Joe Shaver cheated death, and lived to...
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What “Authenticity” Is in Country Music, and Why It Matters
What is "authenticity" in country music, and why is it so important? And should it be? This is a question many love to ask, but the answer isn't simple. The authenticity question is intertwined with...
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