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July 2026

July 17, 2026

Top of the Country: Don’t Tell on Me

In this week's Top of the Country we take a look at Jason Aldean's song...

July 10, 2026

Top of the Country: Hate How You Look

In this week's Top of the Country a new voice (for this blog, anyway) rises...

June 2026

June 19, 2026

Top of the Country: I Knew It I Knew You

In this week's Top of the Country Taylor Swift returns to her long-running spot with...

June 12, 2026

Top of the Country: Be Her

This Top of the Country series blogs through the Country hits of the year, focusing...

June 05, 2026

Top of the Country: Brunette

This Top of the Country series blogs through the Country hits of the year, focusing...

May 2026

May 29, 2026

Top of the Country: The Fall

This Top of the Country series blogs through the Country hits of the year, focusing...

May 15, 2026

Top of the Country: With Heaven on Top (Album)

Unless a new album or song breaks into the number 1 spot on the Billboard...

May 08, 2026

Ella Langley’s Dandelion Review: Top of the Country

Top of the Country: Dandelion (Album) This week's review in the "top of the Country"...

May 01, 2026

Top of the Country: Cloud 9 (Album)

This review of Megan Moroney's Cloud 9 is part of the ongoing "top of the country"...

April 2026

April 24, 2026

Top of the Country: The Way I Am (Album)

This week's Top of the Country post steps into Luke Combs' new album The Way I...

April 17, 2026

Top of the Country: Sleepless in a Hotel Room

This week's Top of the Country post examines Luke Combs' hit "Sleepless in a Hotel...

April 10, 2026

Top of the Country: Time’s Ticking

We've got a new Top of the Country this week with "Time's Ticking" by Justin...

April 03, 2026

Top of the Country: I’m the Problem (Album)

It took me a while, but as part of this series on Billboard's top of...

March 2026

March 27, 2026

Top of the Country: Amen

Another week, and we have another hit on the Billboard Country Charts for review in...

March 20, 2026

Top of the Country: What I heard out West

I am still listening through the Top Country songs, but since Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas"...

March 13, 2026

Top of the Country: 20 Cigarettes

This blog is part of a series through the top Billboard Country songs. At the...

March 06, 2026

Top of the Country 5: How Far Does a Goodbye Go?

Always at the top of the blogging curve, I finally realized that perhaps I ought...

February 2026

February 28, 2026

Top of the Country 4

Okay fine, it's a series. Apparently I'm going to work through the top Country songs...

February 20, 2026

Top of the Country 3

I'm still working my way through the Billboard Country Airplay Charts (not the same thing...

February 13, 2026

Top of the Country 2

While Ella Langley continues to dominate the Country Charts, the Country Airplay list has been...

February 06, 2026

Top of the Country

Every once in a while I pop my head into the world of contemporary Country...

May 2024

May 16, 2024

Tradition Reigns at the ACM Awards

The Academy of Country Music Awards show last night on Amazon was a pageant of...

December 2023

December 15, 2023

Christmas Country Style–2023 version

Review of CMT Country Christmas

December 16, 2022

More Christmas in the Country

Reviews of a handful of new Country Christmas albums

December 09, 2022

Christmas in the Country–2022 Version

Review of CMA Country Christmas

December 24, 2021

More Christmas (listening) in the Country

Music for your Christmas

December 03, 2021

Christmas in the Country?

Review of CMA Country Christmas, Hosted by Carly Pearce and Gabby Barrett

June 2021

June 04, 2021

Country Music–All of it

Audio on the history and politics of Country Music

April 2020

April 10, 2020

That ain’t Country Music!

Review of Bill Malone's "Country Music USA"