The nominees again for Group of the Year were:
Randy Rogers Band
Turnpike Troubadours
Blackberry Smoke
Flatland Cavalry
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Today, I announce the second winner in the 2016 Hope For Country Music Awards. This time, I am awarding the 2016 Group of the Year Award:
The nominees again for Group of the Year were: Randy Rogers Band Turnpike Troubadours Blackberry Smoke Flatland Cavalry
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The first category for which I am announcing winners for the Hope For Country Music Awards is:
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR The nominees again for Collaboration of the Year were: Randy Rogers Band & Jamey Johnson – “Actin’ Crazy” Chris and Morgane Stapleton – “You Are My Sunshine” Flatland Cavalry and Kaitlin Butts – “A Life Where We Work Out” David Nail and Lori McKenna – “Home” Posted by: Cobra In past years, I have closed out the year by doing Top 10/Top 15 lists of albums and songs. This year, I’m taking a different approach and doing The Hope For Country Music Awards, where I will in fact award “Best of” awards in varying categories.
I have broken down the awards into seven different categories, and I will announce the winners in the coming days. The seven categories are as follows:
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For quite a while, I struggled to put into actual words what it was about Miranda Lambert’s Platinum that caused me to view it as her worst album. It wasn’t that there weren’t enjoyable moments on the album. In fact, it had a view very strong offerings: I’ll even admit to “Somethin’ Bad” being guilty pleasure song of mine. I finally put my finger on it, though, and realized that a lot of the album came across as, for lack of a better term, a lot of novelty songs. Songs like the title track, “Priscillia,” “Old Sh!t,” “Bathroom Sink,” and especially, “Little Red Wagon,” were either flat out bad or only rose to the level of having a certain “in the moment appeal” with little to no ability to stay with the listener afterwards.
So, The Weight of These Wings had some recovery efforts to do. Being a double album, it would take a long time to go song-by-song through the album in a review, so I’m going to stick on focusing on the highs and lows of the album. |
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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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