The nominees again for Female Vocalist of the Year are:
Lori McKenna
Lucinda Williams
Aubrie Sellers
Miranda Lambert
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Today, I announce the fourth winner in the 2016 Hope For Country Music Awards. This time, I am awarding the 2016 Female Vocalist of the Year Award:
The nominees again for Female Vocalist of the Year are: Lori McKenna Lucinda Williams Aubrie Sellers Miranda Lambert Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Today, I announce the third winner in the 2016 Hope For Country Music Awards. This time, I am awarding the 2016 Mainstream Single of the Year Award:
The nominees again for Mainstream Single of the Year are: Tim McGraw – “Humble and Kind” Eric Church – “Record Year” Miranda Lambert – “Vice” Jon Pardi – “Head Over Boots”
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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. Posted by: Cobra It was recently revealed that Miranda Lambert’s new album, The Weight of These Wings, due out November 18th, is set to be a double album. While part of me is excited at this prospect, part of me has some concerns as well.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I felt Platinum was a subpar album. It had some decent moments, but it veered way too far from the style that I’ve always loved about Miranda Lambert’s music. As a fan of Lambert, I am hopeful that this will be a return to what makes Lambert so special and that she will put out an album that truly tells the story of what she’s been through over the past eighteen months. Posted by: Cobra Recently, Trigger of Saving Country Music wrote a piece on how Aaron Lewis had some choice words at a concert about Sam Hunt and Luke Bryan and then back-pedaled on those comments as playing to the crowd he was playing for. He went on to question whether Aaron Lewis was the proper person to be sending this message. Aaron Lewis is, after all, the frontman of Staind, and is essentially a rock artist making the move to country. Should it be someone who has made such a transition that is sending the message that country needs to move back to a more traditional sound? Or should it be a country music lifer who is leading the way and standing up for traditionalism?
Posted by: Cobra We will often lament at the lack of quality music that the mainstream has to offer. We’ll lament at the sameness of much of it. We’ll complain about the artists and their inability to put out original or substantive music. We’ll complain about the labels that are putting out the same product over and over again with no regard for the quality of the product they’re selling. We’ll even complain about the fanbase that buys in to the Luke Bryans, Jason Aldeans, and Florida-Georgia Lines.
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This may be the most difficult album review I’ve had to write all year. Not because I had high expectations and then had them let down, but because this album is so damn good that to try to encompass and cover everything in a simple review almost does the album a disservice. Maybe that’s why I’ve kept putting off writing this review: but it’s a review that needs to be written.
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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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