While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite solid fan-base in that genre already. Thus, it was more surprising that Maren Morris’ GIRL World Tour hit my home…
CMT Next Women of Country, Liverpool (10th May 2019)
On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of Country. The show was headlined by Cassadee Pope. Her latest Album Stages had a really good review on flyctory.com in…
Country Music Concert Summer 2019 in Germany – a small Boom?
Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations – or declared as “Southern State Rock” or similar. However, the very well sold Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin showed that there…
Mrs. Greenbird – Dark Waters (Review)
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates their reputation in the international country music scene – though their music has strong elements of folk and pop as…
Flyctory.com’s Latest Country Picks (06 April 2019)
it’s been quite a while since my last country music picks in late October 2018. While that time, I concentrated on new artists, I this time present a nice mixture of country music matadors and newcomers. Some of them might…
Shallow-ism – One Song in countless Versions
I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet “Shallow” of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper did not hit the very top of the singles chart. The song as well as the…
Lauren Jenkins – Running Out of Road (Short Movie)
Running out of Road is not only a song of Lauren Jenkin’s first album No Saint, it is also a short movie. In some eleven and a half minutes, she is telling a story about her music and about songwriting –…
Maren Morris – GIRL (Album Review)
On 8th March 2019, just when the Country 2 Country festival in London was about to start, Maren Morris released her second album, GIRL. Many magazines did a Day 1 review – I pushed this posting to after Europe’s largest country…