Tim McGraw - Here on Earth
Flyctory.com Pros
Very intense and emotional album
A definite statement of McGraws skills
Flyctory.com Cons
Some songs lack catching elements
The album overall tends to become monotonous
Here On Earth is the sixteenth studio album by country music legend Tim McGraw. After so many great hits, he will release sixteen new songs on 21st August 2020. Thereby, Here on Earth is clearly aiming to deal with real people’s stories and a wide range of their emotions.
Tim McGraw – About The Artist
Samuel Timothy McGraw was born on 1st May 1967 in Start in Northern Louisiana. With ten of his fifteen studio albums making it to the very top of the US Country Album Charts, he is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the genre. He first felt to pursue a career in sports and even received a baseball scholarship at the Northeast Louisiana University. During his college years, he also learned to play the guitar. He decided to move to Nashville in 1989 and already received attention by some radio programs and a record company. However, his first single What Room Was the Holiday In was a fail and also received quite bad critics. Three more singles of his self-titled debut album, however, made it at least to lower charts entries. The album was not a commercial success at all.
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However, this drastically changed with his second album, Not a Moment Too Soon , which has been released about one year later, in 1994. The album topped the US, the US Country and the Canadian Country Charts and lead to two chart-toppers in the USA and Canada on the singles side as well: Don’t Take the Girl and Not a Moment Too Soon made him huge. In the 1990’s only, eleven of his singles topped the US singles charts. On the album side, McGraw’s career grew massively as well. The 2002 album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors “just” placed second in the US Country album charts and thus prevented a streak of eleven Number One albums in the states, which finally stopped with Damn Country Music in 2015 (#3).
Tim McGraw – Here on Earth – Track by Track
The 16 track album lasts 62 minutes. In the US, there is a Target special edition with two additional tracks.
1. L.A.
The start of the album rather feels like a terribly mushy 1980’s TV romantic movie soundtrack. Tim McGraw cools you down and lulls you with that song. After you stood the initial confusing (or after the second virus scan stating that your machine is really okay…), the track becomes more and more enjoyable. Romantic.
2. Chevy Spaceship
Chevy Spaceship really starts with a space-radio alike intro, but then turns a slow, but intense track Nice guitar interlude as well. Lovely storytelling and a cool sound.
3. Here On Earth
The third track of the album is the title track – and also the first track which has been published before the album release. A very intense, precise – and thus, very catching track. To me, the strongest song of the album.
It’s like we open our eyes
For the very first time
When we find out why
We’re here on earth
(Here on earth)
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4. Damn Sure Do
If you long for powerful, rocking tracks on Here on Earth , you might slowly getting nervous: Damn Sure Do again clearly aims to touch you on the emotional side. And, yes, it works out – just due to the massive talent and experience of McGraw.
5. Hallelujahville
Don’t call us small town, never have been, never will
It’s a cold beer sundown and we eat what we kill
We marry angels and dance with the devil in a place where time stands still
Can I get an Amen for livin’ in Hallelujahville
Again, this track is on the slow side, but McGraw just this praise of US country life again in a high-class and precise way. I very often don’t like songs which honor country lifestyle too much, but this one is not too pathetic, but describing thoughts and emotions in a lovely way – just as the whole album does.
Baby, this is our town, always has been, always will
Pour it out at sundown, hope someday we get our fill
We ain’t angels and we run from the devil in a place where time stands still
Can I get an Amen, yeah, for livin’ in Hallelujahville
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6. Good Taste In Women
I am very thankful for Good Taste In Women . It is definitely not the country party blast, but it got some rhythm, so it feels like a bit of a relaxation from the deep emotions and intense songs on Here on Earth before.
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7. Hard To Stay Mad At
Hard To Stay Mad At stays on the rhythmic side, but while Good Taste In Women was a nice and welcome change in atmosphere. this track does not sent its message too clearly to me. It just does not touch me as much as other tracks before.
8. Sheryl Crow
Interesting title. Of course, a track called Sheryl Crow always draws some attention. The track is not an homage on the artist, but a love song: You’re like the first time I heard Sheryl Crow on the radio . I like that metaphoric language. A story, which I can follow and relate to much better again. One of my favorites of the album – also because it has a strong country touch.
9. Not From California
This piano ballad is a very, very deep song again. Did I say Sheryl Crow has a strong country touch. These slow and intense tracks like Not From California are lacking that country music feeling a bit. But who cares – finally, it is just a intense musical story at least I enjoy listening to.
10. Hold You Tonight
Of course, it is always a matter of taste and personal preference, but Hold You Tonight does not really get me. It does not take me into the story from the very beginning like Not From California does – and after 1:20 minutes, the track becomes, much more powerful and rhythmic – but has lost me already. Other tracks on Here on Earth are just so much more atmospheric.
11. 7500 OBO
7500 OBO has been released very recently before the album. It has much more of a country radio track touch – could be a nice one for a road trip for example . not too suprising for a song about an Ford F-150 truck…
Shotgun ridin’ down a two-lane road
Just drivin’ around with no place to go
Us singin’ along to “Where The Green Grass Grows”
Hands out the window floatin’ on the breeze
She’s fixin’ her lips in the drop down mirror
That pretty little thing made it hard to steer
I’m never gonna get her outta there
There’s too many memories
Now there’s a “For Sale” sign in the window
Yeah ’cause if I’m gonna let her go, I gotta let it go
Yeah it’s gotta go, so it’s 7500 OBO
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12. If I Was A Cowboy
If I would describe If I Was A Cowboy in one word, it would simply be “nice”. A classic country life love song in a quite straight modern country sound. It is also one of the songs which most strongly features electric guitars. The story might not be super-catchy or not be close to a Nobel Prize, but the overall package you receive with this twelfth track is pretty, pretty solid.
13. I Called Mama
I Called Mama is the last of the songs, which you could listen to before the album release. Not as slow as other songs, but on the slow and intense side again. It is not my favorite one, though.
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14. Gravy
Take a second to stop and smell the daisies
Everything else is gravy
One of the very slow tracks of the album again. It is a nice story, but still the song is lacking to me a certain touch. Matter of taste more than lack of quality, definitely, though.
15. War Of Art
War Of Art is a slow acoustic track. The album finishes with the deep feelings again – and this one is a beauty to me.
16. Doggone
In the very last track of the intense Tim McGraw album, he is even swearing in that album. Doggone is one of these songs, which are definitely somehow nice – but on the other hand, I miss the catching element. It is fine to listen while it is running, but it does not make me play it on repeat.
Tim McGraw – Here on Earth – Spotify
I will add the Spotify widget once the album has been published.
Tim McGraw – Here on Earth – My View
Maybe the best start for my conclusion on Here on Earth is what I wrote about the last song Doggone : the song is nice, it is good, it has a clear message – but do I want to listen about it again? Do I want to really reflect about it? I could also pick out quite a couple of the other songs. I would definitely not call any of the sixteen tracks of this album bad or low quality. They are just a bit of plain. Tim McGraw is aiming to make us think and reflect with his new album – and he definitely makes that… Unfortunately, in quite some of the songs just for the three to five minutes the song is running.
There are songs which stay longer in your mind. It may be a matter of taste, but my favorites – apart from the title track – are Chevy Spaceship, Hallelujahville and Sheryl Crow . Overall, Here on Earth does enter the top rankings to me.
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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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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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Honestly, you read these phrases quite often in country music PR packages, but Canaan Cox has been characterized very often ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Craig Morgan is a decently big name in the Nashville country music scene. Even though he rarely hit the top ...
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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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The Album Part II by Chase Rice is maybe the perfect illustration for the situation in the North American music ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After I enjoyed a great show by Brandy Clark in Amsterdam in January 2020, I was really looking forward to ...
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Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...
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The Secret Sisters siblings had quite quick success after they formed in 2009. Last Friday, on 28th February 2020, they released ...
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"Just" being very talented in producing good music is not sufficient - you just need the piece of luck, meeting ...
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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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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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Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...
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After I finished reviewing the albums by Dustin Lynch and Little Big Town, I ran into several interesting new country ...
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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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When it comes to the best country music vocalists, Little Big Town is always a hot candidate for the title ...
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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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Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...
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Despite it is rather the season for Christmas album and greatest hits, there were some really interesting studio album releases ...
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There were a couple of key songs which made me more and more get into country music. One them was ...
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Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...
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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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Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...
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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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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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The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...
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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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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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While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...
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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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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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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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Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...
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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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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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3rd June 2019 on my trip to Nashville was "Elvis Presley Day". Waking up less than a mile away from ...
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While most of the trip to Nashville was accompanied by magical places of music history, the first highlights of the ...
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16th April, time to leave Atlanta again. At least, there has been plenty of time before to do some sightseeing ...
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Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
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