This Ain’t Your Granddaddy’s Country Music…
There are a lot of country-music families whose members have enjoyed varying degrees of success in the country music scene to date. There is of course the legendary Carter family and the more contemporary Cyrus clan. And then there are the “Hanks,” Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. A third generation Hank, Hank III, has [...]
Kenny Chesney is Hitting the Charts Once Again
Kenny Chesney’s single I’m Alive from his latest album, Lucky Old Sun, peaked at No.8 on Billboards Hot Country Song Chart as of November 14, 2009. Prior to this, the single spent a week at No.55 on the chart. It also peaked at No.48 at US Billboard Hot 100 and No.6 in the Canadian Radio [...]
Taylor Swift’s SNL Sketch, A Hilarious Success
Is there anything this young country superstar cannot do? She is a chart-topping, critically acclaimed, and multi-awarded country artist. She is also fashion designer, a fashion icon, and a top-earning endorser. Just recently, you may also add “comedienne” to her list of titles. No one absolutely knew what to expect regarding Taylor Swift’s much anticipated [...]
Kenny Chesney: Possibly the Hottest Male Crossover Artist in Country Music Today
For any country artist, achieving crossover success could be quite a tricky process—you could gain a wider fan base BUT end up losing original ones by experimenting and straying far from their country roots. This was a lesson Faith Hill learned the hard way when she released two albums, “Faith” and “Breathe,” that the critics [...]
Move Over Girls, The Lady is Back!
The recent years have seen an upsurge in the popularity of young female country singers whose powerful pipes and good looks helped pave their way to success; and, although their songs still talked about the heartaches and pains of losing a lover, they do so now with maturity and such confidence. However, before the Taylor [...]
Country Music Artists: From Selling Songs to Selling Brands
Over the years, various brands—from beer, cosmetics, apparel, and others—have fallen all over themselves trying to get the biggest country acts to sign up and team with them for effective nationwide marketing campaigns. Some of these partnerships produced the most memorable ad campaigns that we know today. Anyone who understands what marketing is should easily [...]
Country Living with Cooper Boone
A talented country artist, clinical psychologist, country store owner, chicken farmer and an online cooking show host, Cooper Boone can certainly be dubbed country music’s newest “Renaissance Man.” Hollywood Music Awards’ Best Country Artist last year, Boone is certainly a busy man. According to the practicing psychotherapist, “I think most people are a lot of [...]
Meet Colbie Caillat, Country Music’s Freshest Catch
Colbie Caillat (full name: Colbie Marie Ashely Caillat) has proven she’s not just a Myspace fluke, the social networking site which helped introduce her to mainstream listeners via her breezy, put-a-smile-on-your face single “Bubbly.” “Breakthrough,” Caillat’s sophomore offering, is currently Number 1 on this week’s Billboard 220, with its carrier single “Fallin for You” reaching [...]