Tom's Country View

"When you see me, you don’t get it initially — then you meet me, and hear the story and hear the music. I just feel like I represent the guy who looks at himself in the mirror every day and goes, ‘Yeah, guys like me don’t make it.’ "   (Jelly Roll / billboard.com, December 8, 2022)

"When I first came in, with how I look — tattoos, biracial, all that stuff — I was already getting perceived as a rapper, and it kept going on for years. [So] I might as well just take on that role." (Kane Brown / nytimes.com, September 4, 2022)

"Don't want no diamonds, no furs, no Versace purse. I'll take a man with calloused hands and mud on his spurs. I know he's out there looking for me, I just wanna wake up with him under the tree." (Cowboy For Christmas / Jennifer Wayne, Nathalie Stovall, Paul Sikes, Stevie Woodward)

"Black people already love country music. Kacey Musgraves and Chris Stapleton, [Black people] love them regardless of genre, because we know their music — with its strings of R&B, gospel and soul apparent in it — is some of the best music out there. That's the flawless standard I'm approaching." (Madeline Edwards / tennessean.com, Juni, 23 2022)

"There is no doubt that this chapter of my life has been the hardest.  But I firmly believe you go through things so you can really grow. If you keep your faith, it can grow you in ways that you won’t believe."   (Tucker Beathard / americansongwriter.com, August 21, 2020)

"It isn't about being an actual cowboy. It’s about a lifestyle, a way of living and a way of treating people. It’s a song about respect, honesty and hard work – and a nod to women that there are still a few good guys left in the world."   (Ben Gallaher / bengallaher.com, 26. August 2022)

"Of course, we gravitated the conversation to Andrew [Dorff] and Alex [LeVasseur/Steele], and being that we're both in this hideous club that no parent should ever be in. We were talking about it, and then came a shrug of the shoulders, 'Who knows why?'" (Steve Dorff / people.com, September 24, 2022)

"As a director I am drawn to people who have something to say and feel what they present as an artist. When I first heard Night 1 and 2 from Morgan, I was captivated by the raw honesty she was singing about. When we started coming up with the concepts for the two videos, I knew that it had to be about her journey, what she went through and how she got to where she is now."   (P.R. Brown /  sonymusicnashville.com, November 11, 2022)

"Kid gets a guitar, catches a bug, writes a few songs. Next thing he knows is, he's headed to Nashville with a dream in his head and a fire in his heart. Puts out a few songs, finds out the music industry is a big machine that doesn't give a damn about him."   (Matt Jordan / YouTube, Oktober 14, 2022)

"Little Big Town have always excelled at depicting human, messy situations, from the jealousy of “Girl Crush” to the yearning in “Your Side of the Bed.” This time, they perfectly capture adult sadness and disappointment in “One More Song,” in which Fairchild and Westbrook (who are married in real life) play a couple who’ve decided to go their separate ways but still come together for one last night of intimacy." (Jon Freeman / Rolling Stone Country, September 16, 2022)

"HARDY has never been just one thing; not just country, not just rock. Not just a songwriter, not just an artist. He’s a myriad talent with a gift for “synthesizing biography with imagination to create real storytelling” (Rolling Stone)".  (hardyofficial.com / Oktober 10, 2022)

"Well, my label [Big Loud] just sent me the ‘You Proof’ video and they wanna wait til Monday to drop the video, but I really don’t, so here’s the link [ unlisted youtube-link on the day before the official video release]." (Morgan Wallen / Instagram-Story, September 9, 2022)

"It was kind of a blind leap, just blind faith. I went out to Hollywood by myself. I auditioned when I was seventeen, I turned eighteen when I got accepted on the show and I did it all on my own."   (Josiah Siska / countrymusicnewsinternational.com, April 17, 2021)

"Seated at a piano onstage, Evans delivered a heartbreaking performance with lyrics that set a scene of a man blindsided by his lover’s decision to end the relationship. Evans made no personal comments before or after the song."   ( Jessica Nicholson / billboard.com, September 26, 2022)

"Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful and rapidly intensifying storms to hit the United States, delivered days of misery and destruction — from the time it made landfall in Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to the torrential rains that pummeled the Northeast." (Sevil Omer / worldvision.org, September 22, 2021)

"This song is a demonstration of the power of a lust that cannot be fulfilled and an imagination so vivid that the lines of reality and fantasy are blurred. Moore’s rich vocals evoke an addictive, trance-like state as he considers the option to act on his desires." (Madeleine O'Connell / countrynow.com, August 26, 2022)

"So finally we are getting to see each other, shake hands. I tell you this: it was supposed to start the comeback tour. If there is a blessing in the curse, I can't think of a better way to end the comeback tour and the stadium tour than play in the greatest place on earth." (Garth Brooks / Press Conference Dublin, September 8, 2022)

"The idea for Country Goes Reggae came on a trip to Negril, Jamaica in 2019, when producers The Berman Brothers  were sitting at sunset at a beach bar listening to Reggae classics as a car passed by blasting U.S. country songs. they knew the two worlds, with the blend of different styles and cultures, would work perfectly together." (Laurie Hollabaugh / musicrow.com, July 8, 2022)

" At first glance this tiny community in south-central Colorado appears but a bump in the road. The northern gateway to the ancient San Luis Valley, Villa Grove is surrounded by national forests and massive peaks to the east. The town was founded by Civil War veterans in 1863 and became a lively stop for the area's narrow gauge railroad."   (www.colorado.com/cities-and-towns/villa-grove)

"But it is our job as artists to sing about things that people are [sometimes] scared to talk about. Domestic abuse is a fragile subject, but I hope this song brings light to a situation that is more common than we’d like to admit. For the abusers, I hope this song haunts them. For the victims, I hope they know they’re not alone."   (Lainey Wilson / tennessean.com, August 26, 2022)

You can find your future Run into your past You can look for answers At the bottom of a glass You can make a best friend And never know their name . (At The End Of A Bar / Chris Young, Mitchell Tenpenny, Chris DeStefano)

"We’ve done so many different genres and people for the longest time didn’t know what genre to call us. For once in our career we were like, ‘hey, let’s change that for this record or this timestamp in our career moving forward, let’s be a damn country band’". (Charlie Muncaster of Muscadine Bloodline / entertainment-focus.com, October 23, 2021)

"So glad you asked, because nobody does ask. And the problem is, at the time we didn't wanna talk about what was going on internally. Or I should take that back. BK [Brian Kelley] did not wanna talk about what was going on. I wanted to talk about the shifts that were happening, the decisions that were being made and the conversations that were being had. But I also wanted to respect BKs desire not to talk about it. He is the one that initiated the whole solo thing in the first place. So basically nothing got said." (Tyler Hubbard / Bobbycast, July 29, 2022) 

" ‘Whiskey on You’ is a ballsy, bombastic track driven by thumping drums and a rock guitar line that really leaps out of your speakers. If you like your Country with a bit of meat behind it, ‘Whiskey on You’ will be a delight."   (James Daykin / entertainment-focus.com, May 18, 2022)

"In 1981, after several failed attempts at a recording contract, the group made one last trip to Music City, resolving, 'If it doesn't happen this time, it will be our last try.' By year's end, George Strait would make his major label debut with the release of Strait Country." ('Damn Strait' / youtube.com, February 9, 2022)