Album Review – Blake Shelton –‘Cheers, It’s Christmas’
On Cheers, It’s Christmas, his foray into holiday music, Blake Shelton is offering up fourteen tracks that mix traditional fare with newly-penned tracks and collaborations with everyone from Kelly...
View ArticlePredictions and analysis: The 55th Annual Grammy Awards
It’s that time of year again, to celebrate music’s biggest night. The 55th Grammy Awards are set to air this Sunday on CBS. In a rather surprising move, it’s the females who’ll be representing our...
View ArticlePredictions for the 48th annual ACM Awards
Now that we’ve turned the clocks forward an hour and our calendars from March to April, it’s time to turn our attention to Las Vegas and the annual Academy of Country Music Awards telecast. CBS is...
View Article2013 CMA Awards predictions – Who should and will win
Here are my predictions for the 47th annual show, airing next Wednesday on ABC. Do you agree/disagree? As always you can check out the nominations, here. ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR A solid list of well...
View ArticleSong Review: Reba McEntire –‘Pray for Peace’
I read a quote once from Emmylou Harris that went something like “People tend to equate emotion in music with how hard the drum hits.” The drums aren’t being pounded in “Pray for Peace”, Reba...
View ArticleSingle Review: Trisha Yearwood ft. Kelly Clarkson –‘PrizeFighter’
Arguably the most exciting news in country music this year was the recent announcement that Trisha Yearwood had inked a deal with RCA and was releasing a new single. “PrizeFighter” is her first single...
View ArticleIt’s that time of year: Predictions for the 48th annual CMA Awards
With Brad Paisley and a pregnant Carrie Underwood set to host for the seventh straight year, and all the usual suspects set to perform, you’d think business would run as normal. But you’re wrong. Not...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Trisha Yearwood –‘PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit’
The initial euphoria I felt upon learning that Trisha Yearwood was finally releasing a new album was tempered slightly by the realization that it would be mostly comprised of her old hits along with...
View ArticleRazor X’s Top 10 singles of 2014
It seems that every year it becomes more and more difficult to compile a list of the year’s ten best singles. I don’t listen to country radio very much (OK – at all) anymore, so when one of my favorite...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Reba McEntire –‘Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope’
Religious albums, like Christmas albums, are sometimes a hard sell to fans because there is inevitably much overlap in song selection with other artists’ Gospel collections. Reba McEntire avoids...
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