CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people – I was just overwhelmed! Similar to my country music picks (here is the latest one ) and my favorite songs of the Country 2 Country festivals (2019 and 2018 selection ), I selected 15 songs, which are still in my head, one week after the festival.
I only selected songs which I really saw live on stage in Nashville . Thus, some artists like Dierks Bentley or Carly Pearce are not part of my selection, which would have been part of this list very likely. Hope you enjoy my selection – especially if you are not too much into country music. I feel it is quite a wide range of songs, classic and new tracks, party and melancholic ones. This list does also cover some songs, though, which have not been part of the official program, but of side events.
15. Jo Dee Messina – Heads Carolina, Tails California
Legendary Jo Dee Messina was the first act in Nissan Stadium on Friday evening, after Lindsay Ell’s performance of the US national anthem. She absolutely made me sway and dance – and this patriotic one was just the song I remembered best. Great song, great performer.
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14. Stephanie Quayle – If I Was A Cowboy
Regarding performances, Stephanie Quayle was one of the most memorable ones for me definitely. She even had a small “fanclub” at the Maui Jim Broadway Stage , the linedancers of the nearby Whitehorse saloon. The live on stage version of If I Was A Cowboy was an absolute blast!
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13. Lainey Wilson – Workin’ Overtime
Lainey Wilson was another artists I saw on the Maui Jim Broadway Stage. She was incredibly powerful, dancing all the time in a hippie-like outfit. So much power. Great to see her in Germany soon!
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12. Jarett McAlister – Human Jukebox
You can discuss a long time about the best honky-tonk on Music Row – one of the bars I like is definitely the Nudie’s. Jarett McAlister is one of the residents there – and the people love his originals and covers. I liked his interpretation of Alabama’s If You’re Gonna Play In Texas , but this one is a nice autobiographic one.
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11. Kelsea Ballerini – Legends
I am a huge fan of Kelsea Ballerini and felt so happy to see her again at Nissan Stadium. There are a couple of great songs like Peter Pan , but Legends was my favorite one during the CMA Fest 2019.
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10. Chris Janson – Good Vibes
Chris Janson is just an awesome perfomer. If there wasn’t Luke Bryan, whom I absolutely admire, his thirty minute Nissan Stadium set might be the most memorable of the CMA Fest 2019 to me. While Drunk Girl is a lovely and thoughtful ballad, Good Vibes just did not get out of my head.
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9. Cassadee Pope – If My Heart Had A Heart
Cassadee Pope is an amazingly friendly person and lovely songwriter. I absolutely enjoyed her fan party – not just because I also love her latest album Stages . If My Heart Had A Heart is an awesome ballad she also played in the tiny comedy club. Memorable!
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8. Sarah Darling – Call Me
Languages often contain very special and characteristic words which you cannot really translate to other languages. If I translate the German Ohrwurm to English, the literal translation would be ear-worm. However, this strange animal just means a song, which is so catchy, it just does not go out of your head. You sing it again and again. Sarah Darling wrote this wonderful Ohrwurm to me. It is also the second track of her new Wonderland album.
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7. Luke Bryan – That’s My Kind of Night
Summer 2013, Florida. I somehow decided to switch on the country music channel in the rental car’s radio. There were some songs which just demanded for more. I came back home with some 20 new CDs. One of the most admired artists of that new love was Lukas Bryan – and this song was just my first Luke Bryan love. I saw him live in Nashville for the second time (after the Red, White and Boom in Lexington, KY, two years ago). To me, he is the god of country music onstage. Hope there is some chance to join one of his next tours.
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6. Christina Taylor – Settin’ Myself on Fire
Meeting artists in person, who you just followed on YouTube or Instagram before, was one of my key beloved experiences at the CMA Fest. Even better if I was gifted to see them live on stage. Best, of course, if they do songs like Settin’ Myself on Fire – what a great song by Christina Taylor. She is just an amazing upcoming artist, what I also wrote in more detail in a designated posting .
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5. Lauren Jenkins – Maker’s Mark And You
I just cannot find anything negative about Lauren Jenkins : I love her album No Saint , she is great on stage, she is a lovely person and, finally, she will even play my home town in September. It is even hard to select one of her songs as her best, but I personally go for Maker’s Mark And You . Wow!
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4. Carolyn Miller – What You Can’t Have
I just knew Carolyn Miller from Instagram and followed her, knowing some of her songs a bit. As I wrote in my posting about her and Christina Taylor , I just felt to go to her concert at the BB King’s instead of going to Nissan Stadium. I originally aimed to see Dierks Bentley there after Miller, but Carolyn just impressed me that much, I wanted to have her sound in my head when finishing the day. Wow, this girl is good, this song is good – miss these moments deeply (though I feel I remember any second).
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3. Keith Urban feat. Carrie Underwood – The Fighter
Though I saw Keith Urban three weekends in a row in early 2019, at the NHL Stadium Series , the C2C in Berlin and the C2C in London , I still looked forward to have him at Nissan Stadium. Though Carrie Underwood was just on the screen and not on stage during his performance, I love this powerful duet, which just gets you melted. What a guy, what a song!
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2. Jenn Bostic – Jealous Of The Angels
I did not know Jenn Bostic’s Jealous Of The Angels at all before I was gifted to see her live at the Kenny Foster & Friend Songwriters Round right before the CMA Fest. Not just due to my personal background, but also due to the story she is telling about her father who died when she was ten, this song touched me massively. If you have the chance to see her live, don’t doubt and do it!
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1. Eric Paslay – Friday Night
I could more or less paste the text about That’s My Kind Of Night to my very favorite one, this Eric Paslay classic. In 2013, it was one of the first songs which attracted me to country music. However, I saw Eric Paslay live for the first time at Nashville in 2019 and thus, seeing him at a Songwriters Round in CMA Theater and on Riverfront Stage was just very special to me. So grateful he will visit Germany soon! Thank you Eric for this great song.
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New songs by Jess Moskaluke: one of the big names of the Canadian female country music scene is adding The Demos ...
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Using tennis language, Haley Mae Campbell was some sort of lucky looser of my review selections on 12th February 2021 ...
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Florida Georgia Line is back in the record store - some eight months after they released the 6-Pack EP, their 2021 ...
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A brief debut album from Ontario: Canadian Dustin Bird is releasing Unscripted on 5th February 2021. The eight track debut ...
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Tenille Townes, John Osborne, Vince Gill and Brad Paisley on one record? Oh, and I forgot Kassi Ashton and Brad ...
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Emma Stevens is not only one of the big names of the British country / folk music scene, she is ...
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I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
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Another new country album I ran into on 29th January 2021 was Dead End Town by Daniel Holmes. The album felt ...
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The Memphis-origin project Lucero is a really interesting act. They created their own music and earned a lot of reputation, ...
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While many talent show candidates rather have a tough time in the "real world" in Germany, the US show winners ...
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After being seriously ill, Langhorne Slim feels to be back on track. After he has been publishing music regularly, fans ...
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Brian John Harwood is indeed an interesting artist. Not just only as one part of Kansas Stone, Harwood is a ...
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Still That Kid - the fourth album by Logan Mize was definitely a release I have been looking forward to ...
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Another debut EP on Flyctory.com: while I was checking the new releases as at 22nd January 2021, I ran into ...
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Third studio album or third EP? Especially due to the fact that Tebey's social media was not overwhelmingly active regarding ...
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Black & Blue Heart by Jimmy Weber is another country music album release I just ran into while I scanned ...
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It is almost nine years ago, since Willie Jones stood in front of the The X Factor jury to persuade them ...
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Chelsea Berman is an Australian artist I ran into during 2020. I really enjoyed listening to her singles that year ...
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Even though Scottish Kerri Watt is a quite established act in the British Americana and country music scene, her 2021 ...
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Just a week before Petric released their album Flashbacks on 15th January 2021, I ran into their single Kids and really ...
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Devin Dawson rocketed into the country music scene with his debut single All on Me in 2017. However, it felt that ...
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Whitney Duncan has been an artist on the rise about ten years ago. I did not read too much about ...
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Morgan Wallen has grown during the last years and established as a well-reputed country music artist. He also feels to ...
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Even though the music market was still kind of slow after the holiday season on 8th January 2021, you saw ...
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Aaron Watson feels like the protagonist of a tobacco advertising campaign, like a dressman for American cowboy fashion - or ...
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Writing about the album Greenfields makes me feel very wistful. Robin Gibb is one of my favorite artists - I ...
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Old Fashioned Country Music - that's how Tanner Sparks declares his style of music on his website. On the very ...
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After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...
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I have been a couple of days late for Kiss The Girl, when I checked the new releases as of ...
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Happy Birthday, Halle Kearns - what could be a better way to celebrate your anniversary for a Nashville resident than ...
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The number of new releases, especially in regards of EPs and albums, is definitely decreasing in December. There are still ...
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Carrie Welling is a very interesting folk / Americana artist, who is nowadays living in Nashville. She was born in ...
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With his debut album Yours and the corresponding single, Russell Dickerson won the hearts of country music fans worldwide. The more, ...
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Right at the beginning of the 2020 holiday season, I had a very interesting chat with Tristan Cole. The North ...
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Doing things once is an innovation, doing it the second time makes it turn into a tradition: after I did ...
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Brian Callihan's bio reads like a blueprint for country music artist: growing up on the countryside, doing some hunting, falling ...
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Four ladies doing country music with a touch of rock - this definitely sounds like an interesting piece of music ...
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Here we go again - after Granger Smith released the first part of his Country Things album in September 2020, the ...
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The third edition of my Songs Of My Life is finally about the music genre which is - by far - ...
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Nikita Skogen just released her debut single, Break Your Heart. Nonetheless, the Norwegian country music artist already has gained comparably quite ...
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20th November 2020 is indeed a date many country music fans have been longing for: the genre's legend Garth Brooks ...
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After I had to alter my music review planning for the 20th November 2020, I quite quickly began scanning new ...
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Ward Davis is a great name in the Nashville songwriting scene. Since five years, he is regularly publishing solo music ...
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Lee Brice is amazing in songwriting, but also a top name in the country music scene as an artist. On ...
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I typically aimed to publish my Country Music Picks every six to eight weeks roughly - but after my last edition ...
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Roman Alexander is one of those amazing young Nashville talents, who illustrate the extreme density of musical quality at the ...
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Shenandoah are truly legends of the country music history. For their 2020 album Every Road they gathered a bunch of legendary ...
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Kameron Marlowe indeed made best use of the publicity he gained by participating in The Voice: his debut single, Giving You Up ...
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It is hard to believe that Chris Stapleton's 13th November 2020 release Starting Over is indeed his fourth studio album ...
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Easton Corbin won the musical hearts of Nashville comparably quick after he moved to the city from Florida in 2006 ...
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Caitlyn Shadbolt is a very interesting Australian artist. The 25-year old Queensland country singer gained quite some fans competing at X-Factor, ...
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Debut album after two EP releases, made in Canada - when I scanned the new country music releases as of ...
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I love to present artists on Flyctory.com which are not in the front row of the country music market (and ...
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When I scanned the new releases as of 23rd October 2020, I ran into the debut album by Charlotte Ave, Women ...
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It's been quite a short-term: just three days before the release of their fifth studio album Tabasco and Sweet Tea, ...
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Just ten days before she is releasing her debut album Desert Diamond, I introduced you to the promising German country music ...
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Runaway June's debut album Blue Roses has been much more successful than I expected when I reviewed it in June ...
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Matt Stell seemed to had many options to pursue a professional career, but finally went for country music. Better Than That ...
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I like the way Mira Goto describes her business on her Facebook page: I write songs, and then I sing them ...
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When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
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Late entry: after I had already closed my list of album and EP reviews for the 9th October 2020 releases ...
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When I ran into Be Gentle On Yourself, the new EP by Australian Melinda Schneider, I did not know too much ...
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Ward Thomas are one of the most successful British country music acts. On 9th October, one week after they originally ...
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Playing a major role in the country music scene since a hand-full of years, the Brothers Osborne are likely one ...
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This week, I am gifted to have very interesting interviews again in my Flyctory.com Spotlight section. Just a few days ...
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During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
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When I reviewed her album Lucky in mid September 2020, I felt that the bio information about the country artist ...
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Drew Haley is quite an interesting artist. She even had TV appearance in the past and got a quite solid ...
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Running into Money on You, the debut EP by Jason Nix, was the story which happens about every Friday to me: ...
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It's Christmas time... and while the classic Do They Know it's Christmas? continues with and there's no need to be ...
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Brent Cobb's very own music is rather traditional: while the Georgian origin had some great success as a songwriter and ...
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Don't you feel the urge as well to talk about trees, angels, presents and Santa Clause? While I had four ...
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Dolly Parton is the legend and "mother" of all female country music stars out there - no doubt. But during ...
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I ran into the music of Diana DeMuth some weeks before her debut album release, when I was scanning for ...
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Six albums - no chart placement: when you think about Granger Smith today, you may majorly focus on his last ...
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The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
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After I had a very intense and interesting chat in my Spotlight interview section in May 2020 with him, I ...
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A few weeks ago, I happened to run into the song Land of Y'all. Even though the artists, Smith & Wesley, ...
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The eight track album Lucky by Tori Martin is a classic random find on Flyctory.com. Scanning for new releases as of ...
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For many country music fans, the 18th September 2020 was some sort of day to look out for: The Speed of ...
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Emily Lockett is am impressive young British artist, just at the end of her teen-ages. After I saw her live ...
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Every Friday, I do a second wave of Flyctory.com preparation and scan new releases of various genres which I have ...
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While listening to the Living Instead podcast series by Olivia Lane, Mickey Guyton was one of the most interesting people ...
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Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
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Hardy is quite well-known in the country music scene as a songwriter. Florida Georgia Line, Chris Lane or Morgan Wallen ...
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Already the second EP of the year - while Lauren Alaina gave us her Getting Good in March 2020, she is ...
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Tennesse Jet is a quite amazing act in the country music scene. He is producing very rocking, powerful, but also ...
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I ran into the music of the Tuten Brothers this year as they released quite many new songs. On 28th ...
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On 28th August 2020, I had quite a huge list of releases (so that I had to skip big names ...
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Tiffany Johnson impressed me recently in the Spotlight interview published on 12th August 2020. After a couple of singles, the ...
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Her personal greatest hits - for her 2020 album ... but I'd rather be with you Molly Tuttle is taking a ...
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Writing for Tim McGraw, being married with Kacey Musgraves - even though you might not have actively run into Ruston ...
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Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
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Music marketing made in the US: Courtney Cole had released three songs in the previous times already - at the ...
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When Tucker Beathard supported Dierks Bentley during his UK tour in 2016, I ran into the young artist for the ...
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Surprise! While Kree Harrison's Chosen Family Tree had to be moved multiple times dues to Covid-19, the US country artist ...
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Josh Turner is very successful on the country music side as well as an artist for Christian music. Country State ...
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Here On Earth is the sixteenth studio album by country music legend Tim McGraw. After so many great hits, he ...
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Cayllee Hammack fascinated the German fans with her 2020 C2C appearances in Berlin. On 14th August 2020, she released her ...
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Four years after his last album release - but Mo Pitney Ain't Lookin' Back - at least this is the title of ...
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A perfect illustration how the Nashville country music cash machine nowadays is working: just six weeks after Eric Paslay released ...
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I definitely like the powerful RaeLynn. After one EP and one album, the Texan girl is presented her new EP Baytown ...
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Lindsay Ell is definitely one of the finest Canadian artists in the country music scene. After releasing some of the ...
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I am really gifted to chat with some interesting artists in August 2020 in my Spotlight interview section. Right after I ...
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In my Spotlight category, I am dealing with another interesting artist. Sandra North is originally from Trosa South of Stockholm ...
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I ran into a preview of Mary Chapin Carpenter's 2020 album The Dirt and The Stars just early in the week ...
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After a couple of single releases, Cory Marks is going for the next step: the Canadian released his first album ...
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Not only after I met her at her Nashville fan party at during CMA Fest 2019, I love Cassadee Pope ...
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If you would ask me to name artists which made me listen (modern) country music, Luke Bryan would be definitely ...
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Eight albums since May 2015 - Charley Crockett is definitely not a singer-songwriter who is tired of publishing music. The ...
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If you need any proof how close the country music scene in Nashville is bound to (Christian) religious attitudes, Chris ...
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The Rascal Flatts have been hard by Covid-19. Right when they wanted to celebrate their final year as a band, ...
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I was originally working on a posting about key challenges that Nashville and the country music industry will face in ...
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It's quite a while since I published my latest Spotlight interview episode with Carolyn Miller in mid-June 2020. The more ...
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Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...
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Honestly, you read these phrases quite often in country music PR packages, but Canaan Cox has been characterized very often ...
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One of the really interesting releases of 24th July 2020 was Firecracker by Emilia Quinn. The young artist has received quite ...
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Not just because of some songs The Reklaws already placed in my Country Music Playlist, I really enjoy the straight ...
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Strange times in Nashville: when the Gaslighter album was originally planned to be released, the three legendary country music ladies combo was ...
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I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
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When I scanned all new country albums and EPs on 10th July 2020, I just got stuck at She Drove Me ...
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The German fans loved Jimmie Allen at his Berlin C2C 2020 performances. The more, I looked forward to his second ...
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There were quite a lot of new songs by Brett Eldredge during the last weeks. This feels to be a ...
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Scanning the list of new country music releases, I ran into Hey Girl by Jonny Houlihan. In fact, the EP has ...
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I did not have too many new releases for 3rd July 2020 on my list. The more I felt interested ...
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Willie Nelson is an amazing artist. On 24th April 2020, just some ten months ago since he released his previous ...
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Eric Paslay is one of the biggest secret stars of the country music genre to me. A fantastic songwriter, who ...
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When you ask for promising new country acts, you very often run into the name of Kyle Nix. However, Nix ...
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Call it an appetizer, a preview or whatever you like - Tenille Townes released her EP Road To The Lemonade ...
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One of these new emerging Nashville artists you don't know too much about, but somehow like the music: when I ...
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Gabby Barrett made it well in American Idol and even better with I Hope. The fans were waiting for her debut album, ...
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It's already about a month since my last Country Music Picks in May 2020. Covid-19 has been the dominating topic ...
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Country music rarely makes it to German media - especially the major US acts, which are typically rather unknown in ...
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You were not that wrong if you call Gone West a "country music superband". All artist have quite some experience individually ...
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Meeting Carolyn Miller and seeing her playing live on stage at the BB King was one of the hightlights during ...
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I ran into Hannah White and her band project, The Nordic Connections, for the first time during the British Country Music ...
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I unfortunately did not make it to follow one of the Matt Lang shows during the Country to Country in ...
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When I was scanning songs for my New Country Hits Playlist, I ran into Lightning by the Colorado artist Kimi Most ...
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Five years after the release of his last album, Tyler Farr is back on the virtual and physical CD trays ...
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Kip Moore released quite a series of songs during the last months. This was a strong indicator for... a new ...
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Drug abuse, being jailed for robbery - Jaime Wyatt already had quite some negative experience arriving in Nashville as a ...
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During my preparations for the music reviews as at 29th May 2020, I ran into the self-titled debut EP by ...
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Craig Morgan is a decently big name in the Nashville country music scene. Even though he rarely hit the top ...
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After six studio albums and two EPs, the Canadian country music duo High Valley is back with another EP. Their Grew Up ...
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5 cans, obviously of different kinds of beer (and the six song titles on it), are on the cover of ...
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Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
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After one album release in 2018, Jordan Davis is back in the (virtual and physical) record stores with his very ...
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The Album Part II by Chase Rice is maybe the perfect illustration for the situation in the North American music ...
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I am really glad that my Spotlight interview section is growing and also having some increasing popularity. In this interview, I met ...
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It feels a bit like Ilse deLange wants to push towards the German music market nowadays: the Dutch country and ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Despite having some big songs with multi-million streams already, Beer's Better Cold is really of Travis Denning. The Georgia-origin artist released the ...
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Sara Evans is back with a new album - and the title Copy That can be interpreted quite literally: her tenth ...
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While I ran into similar issues the last weekends already, Friday 8th May 2020 was even special in regards of ...
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I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of ...
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For 1st May 2020, I originally had a list of eight albums and EPs, which I prepared for review. The ...
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There are still so many talented and high quality music acts in Nashville, which I haven't been aware of so ...
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While quite some major country music artists moved their release dates to (hopefully) better times in the future, Kenny Chesney ...
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If you already know five out of ten tracks of an album and just feel to deeply miss the other ...
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Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
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Though he regularly released some songs, the last major recording by Tim Dugger has already been already five years ago ...
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There are various reasons why I select music for review. I did not have Drake White's EP Stars on my list, ...
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Ryan Upchurch is called Upchurch or also Upchurch The Redneck. He is has touched quite a couple of genres through his career. Despite ...
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The Canadian West Coast trio The Washboard Union is quite established in the country music scene of their home country. Though ...
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Lena Stone is already quite well-known to insiders of the Nashville country music scene. After a good debut EP in ...
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Lucinda Williams is quite a big name in the US music business. The 67-year-old, who made it big in folk ...
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I recently saw a feature about British country music, when I ran into the Welsh artist Bob Fitzgerald. I did ...
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Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
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Bree Doster draw some attention her her during the last year already, when she released her Chasing Ghosts. Now, on 17th ...
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Buy her incredible debut album No Saint during the C2C in Berlin in 2019 was maybe one of the events ...
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Famous was a great hit for Adam Doleac, which draw quite a lot of attention on the US country artist. On ...
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Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...
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My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
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Though Liv Austen is originally from Norway, she is an established artist of the British country music scene. On 10th ...
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I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...
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Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...
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In this edition of my Spotlight interviews, I ran into a very interesting - and nice - artists in the British ...
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Rhett Akins once said about Sykamore "I read her name, I was curious...I saw her face, I was intrigued...I heard ...
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The Corona crisis keeps me buzy - and thus, it again took me quite a while to have a new ...
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Ruthie Collins' musical career is one which is so similar at many Nashville artists: she decided to go to Nashville ...
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Hard to imagine - but Sam Hunt's album Southside, which has been released on 3rd April 2020, is just his second ...
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Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...
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Reading the list of songs written by Brett James is like a Who is Who of the country music business ...
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33 studio album just states that you had a massive career so far. Even though Jim Lauderdale was likely more ...
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After More Hearts Than Mine boosted Ingrid Andress country music career to a major level, the US country artist released her ...
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Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
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I ran into Dan Smalley as I ran into many young and upcoming artists: after the CD reviews I wanted ...
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After Delta Rae has been quite successful in the beginning of the 2010's, the band has not been too present ...
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Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...
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On 13th March 2020, there was some sort of national holiday for the British country music community: not only that ...
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After her career with Gloriana, Rachel Reinert decided in 2017 to leave the successful project and go solo. On 13th March 2020, ...
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Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
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The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
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My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
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Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
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C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
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The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
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In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...
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Some five years after his solo debut album, William Prince is back in the list of country music album releases. Reliever has ...
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Going to Hassocks, a village North of Brighton, was a very special moment to me on Saturday, 8th February 2020 ...
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When an artist turns from metalcore to country and folk music - he just has to be an interesting guy ...
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The Cadillac Three are quite popular in Europe as well as in the USA. Not too surprising, the Nashville trio ...
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It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...
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Not just because Tenille Townes will be part of the European Country 2 Country festivals in March 2020, she is ...
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Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...
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I typically do not present reviews of albums, which have been released more than two weeks ago. I just had ...
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Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
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Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
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It's been quite a while since my latest country music picks - especially as the last issue was just concentrating ...
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The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
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Country music from Austria? Seems to be as special as the release date of the solo debut album of Austrian ...
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I got quite a lot into the international - and especially the US - country music scene the last years, ...
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Two and a half year after Current Mood and the amazing single Seein' Red, Dustin Lynch tried to boost himself back into ...
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Her first album release under a record deal - I was very curious about Tenille Arts's second album Love, Heartbreak, & ...
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The likely first major country music album release of the year 2020 is by Brett Kissel. The Canadian published his ...
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While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
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December - Christmas time! Especially after I had so many postings about Christmas markets in here, I felt to add ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
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Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...
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Fans of the legendary band Hootie & The Blowfish had to wait for fourteen years, until the quartet around Darius ...
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An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
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Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...
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While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
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Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...
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I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
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While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...
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During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
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Maddie & Tae released another EP on 18th October 2018. After their career started with a blast, Everywhere I'm Going should ...
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British independent country music artist Vic Allen is not just a lovely person and friend of mine, but also a ...
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The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...
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Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
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Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...
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Blanco Brown gave us The Git Up, which even made it to the German charts. After that fun and party hit ...
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In addition to the Country Music Playlists, I still want to focus on certain songs in the Country Music Picks ...
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You may easily agree that there are more beautiful and less beautiful musicians in the worldl of country music. Nevertheless, ...
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Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...
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If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...
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Typically, I plan the albums and EPs I am going to review some one to two weeks ahead and also ...
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Two years after their last release, the Georgia Zac Brown Band is back in the record stores with their new ...
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At the very latest when I decided to select two songs in parallel for my current edition of the latest ...
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Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
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The final day of the British Country Music Festival differed significantly from the two days before: the program started slightly ...
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After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
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Friday, the 13th - not the most luck-calling date for the first day of the debut of this new country ...
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Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
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The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
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September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
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When my appetite for country music intensified some three years ago, I also ran into the music of Meghan Patrick, ...
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Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
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Trisha Yearwood - definitely one of the very big names in country music business. Nowadays the wife of Garth Brooks, ...
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Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...
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I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
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After taking the first steps into country music and country music concerts in the early Flyctory.com days, the website is ...
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Taylor Swift is back! On 23rd August 2019, the music superstar with country roots released her seventh album, Lover. As she ...
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While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...
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Can Midland top their rock-like rise to the line of fine country music acts? After a massive success of their ...
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After having this category of postings since quite some time, I decided to have more regular country music picks in ...
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If someone is publishing his/her 16th studio album, you must already be quite a constant in the music business. Country ...
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During my visit at the 2019 CMA Fest, I was just overwhelmed of the sheer mass of young talented musicians ...
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The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
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Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...
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For this 21st July 2019 edition of my Country Music Picks, I already had a couple of songs on my ...
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I was very happy when I received a message in June 2019, whether I would like to review the album ...
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After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
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The sheer number of talents in US country music is massive. Some even make it to Europe quite early in ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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Runaway June are a US country music trio. I saw them for the first time at the Country 2 Country ...
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June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...
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Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real are back - while Nelson is regarded as a great songwriter, his band ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
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Wonderland is the fifth studio album of US country singer and songwriter Sarah Darling. Sarah released it on 7th June ...
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Thomas Rhett, who has become one of Nashville finest artists the last years, released his fourth album Center Point Road on ...
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The Ontario-based James Barker Band was one of the crowd's favorite at the 2019 Country 2 Country festivals in London ...
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While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
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On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
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Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
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Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
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it's been quite a while since my last country music picks in late October 2018. While that time, I concentrated ...
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I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
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Running out of Road is not only a song of Lauren Jenkin's first album No Saint, it is also a short ...
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On 8th March 2019, just when the Country 2 Country festival in London was about to start, Maren Morris released ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
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How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
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Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...
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I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
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While I posted album reviews from time to time so far, there were two albums on 15th February 2019 I ...
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In parallel to the Floorball World Cup Qualifications in Trencin, Slovakia, there was also some special moment for my country ...
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As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
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Brett Young's 2017 debut album Brett Young was a lovely piece of country music. I especially loved his successful single "In ...
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It is already some two months ago since I posted the last country picks. After I made up with UK-based ...
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As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
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After posting a list of current country music favourites in June, here is another update on some recent music or ...
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After having seen Catherine McGrath twice at the 2018 Country 2 Country in London, I have become an admiring follower ...
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It is some two months since I posted my latest top country songs - thus, I felt to update you ...
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During my Weird Al Yankovic Tour trip through Georgia and Tennessee, I again listened to the country channels. Here is ...
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Just blogging on music
Here is a list of my Just blogging on music postings on Flyctory.com:
22.4Last week only, I had to cancel or rebook four trip due to Covid-19 related reasons. Three of them included ...
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2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
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Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
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Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
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Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
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Summer feels to be over - Fall 2021 is coming. Finally, I had much more - and better - trips ...
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I studied maths. This almost certainly means that I am weird. Or, at least, that I tend to have weird ...
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I got introduced to Smooth McGroove by a friend some half a year ago. At that time, the YouTube music ...
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At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
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During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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Weird Al Yankovic is not only one of my most favorite artists, who I follow for some twenty years now ...
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Just about one month left until we are facing our very first socially distanced Christmas. Especially after hard times in ...
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During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
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Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
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I was originally working on a posting about key challenges that Nashville and the country music industry will face in ...
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I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
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Country music rarely makes it to German media - especially the major US acts, which are typically rather unknown in ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
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My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
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Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
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My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
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Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
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The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
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Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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Leo Moracchioli sounds very Italian, but in fact, the metal musician and producer is Norwegian citiizen. Despite his Youtube has ...
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Some ten weeks weeks ago, I added another feature to Flyctory.com: the Country Music Playlists on Amazon and Spotify allows ...
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During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
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Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
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I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
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I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
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