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Album Review: Steve Wariner –‘Super Hits’
Steve Wariner didn’t become a staple at country radio until he signed with MCA in 1984, though he was already a veteran recording artist with six years and 17 charting singles under his belt. Released...
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Week ending 4/9/11: #1 singles this week in country music history
1951: The Rhumba Boogie — Hank Snow (RCA) 1961: Don’t Worry — Marty Robbins (Columbia) 1971: After The Fire Is Gone — Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn (Decca) 1981: Drifter – Sylvia (RCA) 1991: Two Of...
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Razor X’s Top Ten Singles of 2011
It seems like every year it gets more and more difficult to find new single releases that I actually like. There were a few — but only a few — gems this year. Here are some of my favorites: 10....
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Week ending 8/25/12: #1 singles this week in country music history
1952: It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels — Kitty Wells (Decca) 1962: Wolverton Mountain — Claude King (Columbia) 1972: Bless Your Heart — Freddie Hart & The Heartbeats (Capitol) 1982: Nobody...
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Classic Rewind: Sylvia –‘I Never Quite Got Back (From Loving You)’
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Album Review: Johnny Cash –‘Out Among The Stars’
There hasn’t been any shortage of “new” Johnny Cash music in the decade since the Man In Black’s death. But unlike most of those releases, this week’s Out Among The Stars isn’t a reissue, an alternate...
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Favorite Country Songs Of The 80s: Part 7
It seems to me that I never did finish off this series, the last installment being posted on February 11, 2014 (and the installment before that appeared April 9,2013). Here are some more songs from the...
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Classic Rewind: Sylvia –‘The Matador’
This 1981 clip is credited as being country music’s first concept music video Filed under: Classic Rewind
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Album Review: Sylvia –‘It’s All in the Family’
Sylvia Hutton (aka Sylvia) was a hot newcomer when I first became seriously interested in country music in the early 1980s. She enjoyed a string of hits from 1979 through 1987 and then largely...
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Album Review: Janie Fricke –‘Labor of Love’
Like most other veteran acts, Janie Fricke was struggling to remain commercially relevant as the 1980s drew to a close. After scoring her final #1 hit, “Always Have, Always Will” in 1986, she suffered...
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