“Dime Store Cowgirl” is the second song on the album. This is a song about being from a small town and still calling it home, no matter how many big towns or famous places she visits. Despite the fact that thematically, it’s not the most original of songs, but it’s one of the best of its kind in recent years due to Musgraves’ authentic nature and the fact that she makes it into a true country song. One of my favorite lines in this song is “just because it doesn’t cost a lot doesn’t mean that it’s a cheap.”
Posted by: Cobra “High Time” kicks off the album. The style of this song greatly reminds me of George Strait, especially his early material. The production and instrumentation remind me of that early-to-mid-80s feeling of Strait’s music.
“Dime Store Cowgirl” is the second song on the album. This is a song about being from a small town and still calling it home, no matter how many big towns or famous places she visits. Despite the fact that thematically, it’s not the most original of songs, but it’s one of the best of its kind in recent years due to Musgraves’ authentic nature and the fact that she makes it into a true country song. One of my favorite lines in this song is “just because it doesn’t cost a lot doesn’t mean that it’s a cheap.”
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Posted by: Cobra I’ve said before that despite it not being a particularly country song, “Somethin’ Bad” was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoyed the song because personally, I found it to be immensely fun. Quality-wise, no, it was not a good song, but I was able to forgive that because largely, Miranda Lambert had always been an artist I thought pretty highly of (despite a very subpar fifth album). Plus, I feel that I can differentiate between enjoying a song and thinking it has any real quality.
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With all of the terrible music being thrust into the pipeline, it would be very easy to focus on the negatives of country music in 2015. But the truth is, like any other year, there has been a ton of great music released as well. In fact, this year has been exceedingly difficult to narrow down to just ten of the best songs released so far. There’s been that much good music released.
Today, I take a look at what I feel have been some of the best songs released so far this year. As I mentioned, this was incredibly difficult, so to simplify the task slightly, I have limited it to one song eligible per artist (or album, really, since one artist incidentally shows up on their own album and as a guest vocalist on another song listed). So, without further ceremony, here we go…
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There are some things you can count on. Then there are some things you thought you could count on.
We used to be able to count on Keith Urban to put out decent pop-country flair. It wasn’t something traditionalists would flock to, but it wasn’t the bane of our existence either. We could at least rely on it to be relatively listenable, decent beats and melodies, and sometimes, he’d even surprise us with a really, really strong track (“You’ll Think of Me” or “Till Summer Comes Around”). Posted by: Cobra Despite the abysmal output in mainstream country music this year thus far, for real country music, there has been an outpouring of incredible music from amazingly talented artists.
And now we add another one to that list with Courtney Patton’s new album, So This Is Life, a twelve track collection from an incredibly talented woman. I first heard of Patton when she appeared on her husband Jason Eady’s 2014 album Daylight/Dark, and So This is Life was my first experience listening to her as a solo artist, but I will definitely be exploring her previous offerings in the very near future. Posted by: Cobra Well, there’s now two collaborative CDs released this year which are already easily worthy of Top Albums of the Year list praise. While Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen put out an album celebrating a friendship and musical kinship of fifteen years, Merle and Willie have done the same thing, celebrating a friendship and musical kinship that’s about three times that long.
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LINKS
Here are some links to other pop culture websites and blogs worth checking out:
- Saving Country Music - Country Perspective - Farce the Music - Country Exclusive - This Is Country Music - Country Music Minds - Matt Lynn Digital Pop Culture Potpourri Writers
Cobra is a Human Resources professional from the Greater Cleveland Area with a love of good country music and a disdain for pop, rock, and rap mislabeled as country music. His favorite artists include (but are not limited to) Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers Band, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Turnpike Troubadours, Hayes Carll, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Trisha Yearwood, Dwight Yoakam, and Johnny Cash Archives
December 2017
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