I know his personal life has overshadowed his career and majority of people hate Achy Breaky Heart, but I do find his vocal ability and range very underrated. While he’s not your traditional country artist, I think he’s put out solid music. Some Gave All was a great album overall with “She’s Not Crying Anymore” and “Wher’m I Gonna Live” being my favorites. Even some of his stuff in the 2000s like “Read, Set, Don’t Go” and “Back to Tennessee” were very good.

What’s everyone else’s opinion?

I’m going to see hank williams jr because I like his music but I highly disagree with his outspoken views on trump/conservatism. This raises the question (not even this specific scenario) what are the morals behind giving money to an artist you disagree with (who are outspoken about their views)? Is it not that deep?

I was thinking about some artists that may have been very successful or only mildly successful at country radio, but nevertheless have great catalogues, with a lot of good material and albums you can listen to all the way through. One that comes to mind is Alan Jackson. His album Who I Am is fantastic and all of them have at least a couple of decent deep cuts on them (that's the only one I've listened to in entirety). Also, and I know he gets a lot of hate, but Jason Aldean's old albums have album tracks even better than his radio singles, especially his debut through at least My Kinda Party. Some of his newer ones, which are generally more pop/rock-oriented, are not as good, but most of them even have at least one or two good songs on them (i.e. Too Fast and the title track from Old Boots, New Dirt). Who are some others?

Vincent Neil Emerson - Blue Stars

Benjamin Tod - Vengeance and Grace

Jefferson Ross - Low Country Wedding

Derek W. Dooms - Life's a Game

Cody Webb - Country Is

Darin and Brooke Aldridge - Soul Condition

Matthew Payne - Better Times

Melody Motel - Counting Sand

Shane Guerette - Come Along As One

Bella White - Pink Living Room (EP)

Permanent Moves - We Both Die First

Hannstead - Self-Titled

Owen Riegling - In The Feeling

I’m With Her - Sing Me Alive

The Tall Pines - Tales from the Tall Pines

Dirk Powell - Wake

Dan Penn - Smoke Filled Room

Lewis Pugh - Heretics & Heritage

Reba McEntire - One Night In Tulsa (EP)

Cameron Whitcomb - Deep Water (EP)

Cowboy Simple - Self-Titled

Grey Jacks - INTERgenerational

Benny G - When You Know You Know (EP)

David Coller - When Summer Comes

The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers - Revival

Rymdklang - There She Goes

Banshee Tree - Bad Luck

Todd Thibaud - Alchemy

Souled American - Sanctions

Tori Sparks - Cabinet of Curiosities, Vol.1 (EP)

Ben Chapman - Out in The Country (EP)

The Brudi Brothers - Dark and Stormy (EP)

Thomason - White Van (EP)

Nicole Alexis - Mirrors and Smoke (EP)

Zach Seabaugh - Eastern Time (EP)

Harry Foxton - Fear in Forgiveness

Brooke Lee - Desert Darling (EP)

Luke Bryan - Kill The Lights

Hello everyone, I am a final year university student doing a dissertation on country music. I have a survey here about authenticity in country music. It takes only a couple of minutes to complete and would help me out immensely.

If you have any pointers or anything to add that may be relevant please let me know.

In honor of the legendary songwriter Don Schlitz's death, I want everybody to please listen to The Gambler by Kenny Rogers on Spotify or whatever you stream music on. Tell everyone you know, and even if you don't like it just listen once. Let's see if we can get it to hit the charts.

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Vincent Neil Emerson - Blue Stars

Release Date: April 17th, 2026

Label: La Honda Records

Producer: Patrick Lyons

(all songs written by Vincent Neil Emerson)

1. Livin' in the Past
2. Fishin' Hole
3. The Great Highway
4. Blue Stars
5. Dark Horse
6. Rich Man
7. See My Pony Run
8. Jet Plane
9. Angeline
10. Louisiana Wind
11. Chippin' At The Stone
12. Rising Of The Sage

Leave your thoughts below. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Favorite songs? Least favorite songs? All thoughts welcome

Hopefully the release of new songs like this, Trailblazer and I Can’t will inspire the release of a new album!

It’s a tale as old as time - country duet ballads. We’ve had Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Reba McEntire and Brooks and Dunn etc. More recently we have had a Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean duet.

A key album for me which solidified Reba McEntire as a singer of duets was the Reba: Duets album, which featured Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Vince Gill, amongst others.

What other duets would you like to see?

I’d like to see a Reba McEntire and Martina McBride duet, as they’re both powerhouses.

I think a Deana Carter and Dolly Parton duet would also be nice as they both have soft voices.

She’s one of my absolute favourites, but she hasn’t released an album since 2013 :(

Her first album, and her second one to a lesser extent, did well in the charts, particularly in the UK where I’m from, but her albums since haven’t charted as high.

She did a 25th anniversary edition of her first album which she released in 2021, featuring some renditions of her most popular songs featuring other artists.

Even though she still tours there’s hasn’t been any hint towards new music. Does anyone think Deana will make a return to the studio?

Hello everyone, I just thought I would share a new band that I found based out of Arizona, they are called Hannstead. They have a new album out now, and I thought it was pretty good quality for an up and coming band. It is a country rock band mixed with some grunge. Found it to be a pretty cool sound. Here is the link to their new album on Spotify. Just thought I would share.

They've performed at some small venues in Arizona so they are a very new and up and coming band. This is their first album.

Love Kelly Willis and this song somehow got stuck on repeat this morning. Solid gold!