by contributing author Matt Rogers
Lee Ann Womack’s highly anticipated sixth album, Call Me Crazy (2008), comes after a nearly three year long, but well-deserved, hiatus. But the absence hasn’t knocked Womack off of Nashville’s radar. The overwhelming success she garnered from her previous record, There’s More Where That Came From, has kept fans and industry […]

by contributing author Matt Rogers
If The Stage on Nashville’s lower Broadway ever lost its Saturday night house band, the boys of River Country could easily fill in without missing a step. This Whitland, IN-based trio – which has opened for acts such as Rascal Flatts, Andy Griggs and Jack Ingram – creates the kind of […]

by contributing author Matt Rogers
Since his passing in 2003, Johnny Cash’s popularity among folks outside of the country genre has spread like wildfire, due especially to the success of the Oscar Award-winning film, Walk the Line, in which actor Joaquin Phoenix portrays the Man in Black with brilliance.

by contributing author Matt Rogers
Cooper Boone is an interesting character. Though a son of America’s heartland, he has spent more than a decade in the Northeast, dividing his time between being a farmhand in Pennsylvania and a psychotherapist in the Big Apple. He’s an ardent environmentalist about to go nationwide with his Small Change Big […]

By Matthew J Rogers
Succeeding as a mainstream country music duo has its obstacles. One might even say that it’s virtually impossible for an unsigned act nowadays to match the resounding success of the genre’s leading twosomes. Needless to say, there’s some stiff competition. Rancho Deluxe is somewhere in between what works and what doesn’t, and […]