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Friday Five: Boom Boom
Luke Bryan recently taught us, in deep and insightful lyrics, that when a girl makes your “speakers go boom boom,” it means that she makes your heart go a-flutter. It must be love. Evidently, if your significant other has had no effect on your personal stereo system, it could possibly mean that you’re doing it [...]
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Friday Five: Wedding Bell Blues
Love has been in the air recently among the world of country music. Jake Owen recently said “I do.” Carter’s Chord member Becky Robertson just got married last weekend. Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood got married just a couple weeks back, Lee Brice got engaged, and LeAnn Rimes renewed her vows on her first anniversary. Depending [...]
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Friday Five: Horseracing
Tomorrow is the 138th Kentucky Derby. Put on an ostentatious hat and get ready for the Run for the Roses with these songs. (It’s not the Friday Six, but you can’t go wrong with adding Tim O’Brien’s “Hoss Race” to your Derby Day playlist.) 5. Johnny Cash, “Camptown Races” It’s a good thing the Kentucky [...]
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Friday Five: Rabbits
Rabbits: cute, disapproving, and delicious. No wonder they’re featured in so many country and roots songs, including Bob Wills’ “The Bunny with the Powder Puff Tail,” The New Lost City Ramblers’ “Rabbit Chase,” and Lloyd Green’s “Funny Bunny.” So perk up those ears and listen to five more bunny tunes. 5. Bill Carlisle – “Dumb [...]
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Friday Five: Wade Hayes
Wade Hayes, the Oklahoma native celebrating his 42nd birthday today, has found himself making news for all the wrong reasons lately. He was recently diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer and is currently battling the debilitating disease. From 1994 to 1998, few artists were as popular on the charts as Hayes. He charted 11 hits and [...]
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Friday Five: Spaceships
The Space Shuttle Discovery has been acquired by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and is arriving in the DC area on Tuesday. In honor of its arrival, here are five songs about spacecraft. 5. Billy Bragg & Wilco – “My Flying Saucer” This is a cut from Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2, which found Bragg [...]
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Friday Five: Merle Haggard
The great Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Haggard turns 75 today. Amazingly, he’s had four unique career musical storylines. He got his start with The Strangers playing the Bakersfield Sound that he and Buck Owens would make so unique. The Hag then got his major-label start as one of the major Nashville Sound players [...]
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Friday Five: Cindy Walker
Six years ago today, one of the most prolific female country music writers in the history of the genre, Cindy Walker, passed away at the age of 87. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame (class of 1997), the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and CMT’s [...]
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Friday Five: St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is tomorrow, so for this Friday Five, we’re paying tribute to country songs about Ireland. There are countless country songs about, or influenced by, the Emerald Isle, but here are five currently in heavy rotation at my house. 5. Dolly Parton — “We Irish” This is a fun track from 2004′s Live & [...]
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Friday Five: Chris LeDoux
Chris LeDoux passed away on this day in 2005 at the age of 56. Over the course of his career, he recorded three dozen albums, several of which were self-released. Here are five of my favorite LeDoux tunes; what are yours? 5. “Copenhagen Angel” Ladies, if a bucking horse knocks out your teeth, it’s okay, [...]
Current Discussion
- Jonathan Pappalardo: Luke Bryan's latest "Drunk On You," very loosely connected to this theme, comes to mind - "girl you make my ...
- Ben Foster: Nice clever idea for a Friday Five, and a great list. Robert Ellis Orral, "Boom! It Was Over," anyone?
- Rick: Trailer said about the new Lee Bains III album: "Mixing garage rock, country soul and southern swagger into an effortlessly authentic ...
- Jon: Speaking of Bonnie Raitt, Sarah Siskind's going to be opening for her on some upcoming tour dates.
- Jon: Exclusive stream, I suppose, but the track's been out in the wild for about 3 years now, having appeared on ...
- luckyoldsun: I don't know, when I heard that, I felt like I was listening to a guy who was laboring really ...
- Rick: I'm glad this project is on the Rounder label and not some name big name Nashville label trying to cash ...
- Rick: That ranked somewhere between boring and unbearable. Do yourself a favor and don't quit your day job Bob...
- Rick: I think that promo trailer for "Nashville" is pretty darn good. The acting and performances didn't seem over the top, ...
- Angelina Brady: Dig It! Look forward to the release!
