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A very sweet and romantic song. It was added to the Edge/Album list back last January and I’ve heard it a bunch since thing. It holds up well and I expect will have a nice long run.

I got an advance on this about two months ago and am almost embarrassed to say how much I love the danged thing. Sure nothin’ else quite like it. It’s got it’s groove on and overflowin’ with attitude. I get images of Big Bad John crossed with that guy Steve Earle was telling us about … Read more

There’s absolutely nothing to dislike about this, but for some reason or another I haven’t yet built up any great attraction to it. I’m thinking it’s probably because it strikes me as rather cloying to the audience. Like, we’re all just wonderful, ain’t we? Pro’bly just me. It’s bouncy and hooky and all that good … Read more

This girl should be a star and this record may be the one that puts her on the map. We got a playlist filled with songs for 20-something males, here’s one for a misbehavin’ 20-something female to balance it out a bit. It’s got attitude and style and a killer hook. And here’s something I … Read more

Has anybody seen in graphs displaying mainstream Country P1 25-54 acceptance of rap; even clearly white rap? Driving around Austin, one of the hippest, whitest, upscale cities, I constantly encounter white kids blasting the most gawd-awful rap crap. It amazes me. There’s the generational thing, sure, me being the old coot now, but what I … Read more

It debuted #1 in the album sales charts. I tracked it first time driving the interstate north to Dallas and was really, really pleased. She’s not made a weak album, puts lots of quality into her collections. This one, however, is her most confident, robust aggregation of songs. There are five songs I can hear … Read more

I don’t like this all that much. It’s a ‘showbiz’ record cooked up with the typical Urban formula. Now the remaining really great song on the album is “Come Back To Me”. That would’ve been a much better single than this forgettable bit of ear candy. Not that there’s anything deathly wrong with Name Brand … Read more

Ok, now if Country is the new Rock n’ Roll, then we’re going be having stuff like this in the mix, same as 70’s Top 40 has a Jackson Browne song next to a Bad Company. Because History echoes, you see. This here is the sound of a troubadour in the pure sense. Not a … Read more

This never struck me as much of an outstanding record. Oh, not that there’s anything wrong with it. There’s a niceness about it; it feels comfortable. The hook is modest, but at least there is one. It’s moved into the mid-teens on the airplay charts now and has sold a respectable 236k digitals.

It’s kind’a Bro-Country bubble-gum. Not very filling, just a whole bunch of high fructose corn syrup and other assorted fillers, like the way-too-cute auto-tune opening and closing. But, what the hey? I was around when what was then known as bubble-gum rock was selling bazillions of discs. And I remember when that bubble burst, as … Read more