2009 December

• Rock Band Simulator Increases Country Track Pack

  For you gamers out there, Harmonix has just announced that the Country Track Pack for its Rock Band simulator has expanded by seven songs. The new tracks include:

  • “Good Time” – Alan Jackson
  • “Cry Lonely” – Cross Canadian Ragweed
  • “She’s Country” – Jason…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Artists / Everything Country / Music

   

• Three Artists Who Kept Me Laughing This Decade

  This is my last blog of the week, the year and the decade. So I have one last chance to look back before I start looking ahead. And this time, I want to go out reflecting with a smile on…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Essential Decision: Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard?

  Roots music authority No Depression may not be in print anymore, but that hasn’t stopped them from asking tough questions and pulling in a lot of reader opinions on their Web site. Like this one, where writer Grant Alden asks, “Whose…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• 10 Longtime Favorites Still Going Strong in 2009

  Many of my top albums from 2009 are by some of my longtime favorite artists. So as we prepare to enter a new decade, I’d like to acknowledge the musicians who have been creating notable music since long before some…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Mickie James Tag Teams Wrestling, Country Music

  How could we even consider ending the year without at least one more outsider announcing her country music intentions? Well, enter Mickie James. The WWE Diva (a fancy name for a female professional wrestler) has a country single coming in…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Zac Brown Band Surrounded by Women in 2009

  Streaming a music video means you are watching it on purpose. It’s a little different than watching it on TV, where you are just watching whatever comes on next. Streaming means you clicked on the play button deliberately. So when…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Three Country Artists Who Blessed My Decade

  Yesterday (Dec. 29), I wrote about the three artists who made my last 10 years very traditionally country. But today I am thinking about the ones who made it meaningful, which pretty much comes down to the artists who made…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Taylor Swift’s "Fearless" Might Just Be My Favorite

  I must just be a hopeless romantic because I can never get enough of songs about being so completely in love that you do crazy things. Like dance in a storm in your best dress. Or songs that capture the…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• Radney Foster Honors Fallen Soldiers’ Final Flight

  Radney Foster’s new video for “Angel Flight” is his solemn way of honoring the brave men and women of America’s armed services, especially those making their final journey home. Featuring backing vocals by Darius Rucker, the song is narrated by…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows

   

• 10 Women Who Made Cool Albums in 2000s

  Approaching the end of this year I compiled a whole bunch of lists, such as indie albums you might have missed, women in country music with Christmas albums and my favorite country albums of the decade. So I figured I’d stir…

  31 Dec 09 / Category: Shows