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Album Review – Lydia Loveless “Indestructible Machine”
From Columbus, OH, the lovely and talented 21-year-old Lydia Loveless offers up her first album with international aspirations in Indestructable Machine, through the Bloodshot Records imprint. Rest...
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Hip Hop Infiltrates Nashville Through Soundland 2011
Country and folk music have a long history of joining forces to create infrastructure to help support music, principally in festival gatherings. And as the corporate music world continues to crumble...
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Saving Country Music’s Essential Albums for 2011
So here it is, the list of albums Saving Country Music deems essential for 2011 listening. Please note this list only includes albums that have been reviewed so far. And as always, your feedback is...
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Record Store Day 2012 Country Music Field Guide
This Saturday, April 21st with be the 2012 installment of Record Store Day, the annual event started in 2007 to help the struggling independent record store. 2012 will go down as the year when country...
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Lydia Loveless Goes “Boy Crazy” On New EP
Ahead of a new full-length album promised from Lydia in 2014 is a quick little EP called "Boy Crazy." It is a straight ahead power pop album with punkish and country undertones that draws you right in...
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Albums To Look Forward To In 2014
2014 promises to be another great year for music, and the first part of the year might just be one of the busiest seasons for anticipated releases we have seen in quite a while. From a lost Johnny Cash...
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Lydia Loveless –“Somewhere Else”
Her latest album and second LP from Bloodshot Records Somewhere Else is decidedly a more dark project with moments of real depth not seen before in Lydia's young career. Lydia Loveless shows great...
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10 Artists to Check Out Even If You’re Not Going to SXSW
Oh you poor little non-SXSW goers, you're social network feeds are about to get positively inundated with South By Southwest information, riddling your psyche with scores of free music events you're...
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Willie’s Granddaughter Raelyn Nelson Looks to Make Own Name
That's right ladies and gentlemen, the Nelson clan can now field three generations of performers on the stage, and the new generation is about as defiant and ass kicking as you might expect. Rearing...
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Sturgill, John Moreland, DM3, Nikki Lane & More on 2015 Stagecoach
Indio, California's country version of the massive Coachella Festival bucks the trend of most corporate country music festivals by casting independent artists and legacy acts in their lineup right...
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Pokey LaFarge, Rev. Peyton, & Banditos All Sign to Labels
The past 24 hours has seen some big signings by some worthy artists to record labels. The old-school throwback St. Louis singing and strumming song man Pokey LaFarge has signed to the prestigious...
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2014 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
Each year when Saving Country Music sits down to compile the best songs, it's done so with a solemn reverence and understanding that the idea embedded in a song has the power to change a life, and...
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Saving Country Music’s 2014 Song of the Year
Every true music fan craves those moments when a song and story truly disarm you and make rudimentary rubble of your capacity to keep the saline fountains at bay. Fiction can sometimes achieve these...
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Album Review – The Supersuckers “Holdin’ The Bag”
Going back to what the Supersuckers do best, which is come out kicking with a shit eating grin, and then hitting you in between the eyes with something meaningful when you least expect it, this raucous...
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Album Review –“Sidelong” by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
"Sidelong" may find itself in a dark and troubled place much of the time, but it's good old country music at its heart. You know, country music? That stuff they used to make before Music Row lost its...
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Album Review –“Between The Moon & the Midwest” by Austin Lucas
Nobody knows the formula, or how to navigate the whims of music to steady and sustainable employment, or God-forbid a modicum of stardom. But what we do know is Austin Lucas is an artist worthy of...
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The Best Country Songs (& Videos) of 2016 So Far
As was said in reference to the Best Albums of 2016 So Far, it has been fairly slim pickings for the first part of the year for finding music that really touches the heart, and has the fortitude to...
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Album Review –“Real” by Lydia Loveless
Normally, an artist either declaring or just plain evidencing their abandonment of country music, especially one who has contributed worthy music to the genre in the past, would be grounds for...
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2016 Nominees for Saving Country Music’s Song of the Year
A song can change a life, and a song can change the world. And if you're a real music fan, you know this to be true because you've felt it, and seen it yourself. We're not looking for fanciful ditties...
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Saving Country Music’s 2016 Song of the Year
Every year, Saving Country Music goes through the exercise of choosing the "best" song in its humble estimation. In 2016, this winner happens to be a song about losing and defeat. A song like this is...
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Quit Releasing Music Via The Short-Form EP
The only greater disservice an artist or a label can do to the music they've worked so hard on and put so much love into than releasing it on an EP, is to release it on a four-song EP. You want to bury...
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Lydia Loveless Claims Bloodshot Records “Covered Up” Harassment – Co-Owner...
Alt-country singer and songwriter Lydia Loveless has come out with a statement saying that independent, Chicago-based insurgent country label Bloodshot Records did not properly address the behavior of...
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How Do We Regard Bloodshot Records After Lydia Loveless Revelations?
Bloodshot Records was a stepping stone, and a repository for artists who were too ornery to be signed elsewhere. And that was what was cool about them. It was a punk attitude imprinted on country, and...
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Bloodshot Records Co-Owner Nan Warshaw Officially Resigns Amid Harassment...
Blooshot Records co-owner Nan Warshaw is officially out at independent record label Bloodshot Records in the aftermath of a sexual harassment scandal. This is the news coming from the label Saturday...
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Bloodshot Records Artists Warned of Sale & Accounting Issues
On Monday, July 20th, all artists currently signed to independent music label Bloodshot Records received a letter written by the principal employees of the 25-year-old Chicago-based record label...
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Bloodshot Records Co-Owner Nan Warshaw Responds to Accusations
The employees of insurgent country and roots label Bloodshot Records got the attention of many earlier this week when they sent a memo to their artists explaining how the label was up for sale, and...
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Ryan Adams FBI Investigation Closed with No Charges
Alt-country turned rock artist Ryan Adams has been cleared of wrongdoing in an FBI probe for his alleged inappropriate texts to an underage girl. The allegations were first reported in The New York...
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Bloodshot Records In Limbo As Co-Owner Rob Miller Leaves Label
None of this might be happening right now if it wasn't for Bloodshot Records. And when I say "this," I mean this website, you reading it, many of the artists featured here, a.k.a. the independent...
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New Bloodshot Re-Signs Lydia Loveless, Jason Hawk Harris, More
Ever since being officially shuttered in October of 2021, and then being purchased by Exceleration Music on October 23rd, 2021, fans of Bloodshot Records and the artists once signed to the label have...
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