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CU Archives: Linda Ronstadt 25 Aug 2013 | 10:47 am
We at Country Universe were very saddened to hear of Linda Ronstadt’s recent announcement that she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight months ago, and that the disease has resulted in the tot...
A Conversation with Zane Williams 24 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
Country music singer-songwriter Zane Williams had his first taste of mainstream success in 2006 when Jason Michael Carroll took his song “Hurry Home” into the Top 20. Having already made inroads in th...
Single Review: The Band Perry, “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” 23 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
For any other artist, “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” would be just as forgettable as it is for the Band Perry. But given the unhinged creativity they usually show, it’s befuddlingly conventional. Part of...
Single Review: Sara Evans, “Slow Me Down” 18 Aug 2013 | 03:38 am
Sara Evans launches her seventh studio album with the Marv Green-penned “Slow Me Down,” in which a relationship is on the rocks, and Evans’ narrator is just about ready to walk out – but she looks bac...
Single Review: Laura Bell Bundy, “Two Step” 14 Aug 2013 | 04:42 am
Laura Bell Bundy made a distinctly memorable impression when she blew into Nashville fresh off Broadway four years ago. Of all the major label country albums released in 2009, few were more polarizin...
Single Review: Blake Shelton, “Mine Would Be You” 11 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
What a twist! Blake Shelton’s new single is a slow-paced love song that hits all the usual notes, in the omnipresent list format that makes me think that Mad Libs is the most popular game in Nashvill...
In Memoriam: Cowboy Jack Clement, 1931-2013 10 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
The long list of country music greats lost in 2013 continues with the passing of Cowboy Jack Clement, who succumbed to liver cancer yesterday morning at the age of 82. Few have done so much to shape ...
Album Review: Pam Tillis & Lorrie Morgan, Dos Divas 8 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
Pam Tillis & Lorrie Morgan Dos Divas If you have a soft spot for the great country artists of the nineties – particularly the generation of mature, articulate women who ruled the genre for much of th...
Single Review: Danielle Bradbery, “The Heart of Dixie” 7 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
The debut single from The Voice Season 4 winner Danielle Bradbery has one of best productions you’re likely to hear on terrestrial country radio, heavy on the sweet sounds of fiddle and mandolin. ”Th...
Single Review: Carrie Underwood, “See You Again” 7 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
You’d be forgiven if Carrie Underwood’s current hit left you a little underwhelmed. After the one-two murderoo of “Blown Away” and “Two Black Cadillacs,” the releases that announced Underwood’s ascens...
