Shelly's Country Music Blog December 2004 Archive

Each month I spotlight a different country artist. This month's artist is Brad Paisley. Read facts on Brad, view his discography, listen to audio clips of his music, and ... Read More

If you're new to downloading music on the Internet, we've created a tutorial on using the four biggest legal downloading sites. Read the Introduction then the actual Tutorial. Then, after ... Read More

Billboard Magazine has listed their Top 40 Country Singles for 2004, and you can find them here. We've also posted Billboard's Top 40 Country Albums as well. Each list has ... Read More

I'm starting a new area on the site where I will accept nominations for country music websites. You can nominate your own site or someone else's site, as long ... Read More

From the CMA Close Up News Service - Refusing to give in or give up has led the Arista Nashville recording artist to enjoy accolades for his third album, ... Read More

In our Favorite Country Love Song poll, we are up to Round 11, with 20 songs left to vote for. We will remove the five lowest-voted songs until we reach ... Read More

See which songs are topping the charts, and which song I think will be the next No. 1. All chart rankings are based on the song or album's position ... Read More

Read the continually updated country music news from the week of November 1st, and read previous weeks' news in the Country Chatter Archives

View the Top 20 songs based on Billboard's Hot Country Singles charts. List is shown with current chart rank and last week's rank, plus a link to purchase the album ... Read More

Ever hear a song on the radio and want to sing along, but it's new and you don't know the words? Never fear, I'm trying to help by posting the ... Read More

You've heard of the 12 Days of Christmas. We've gone one further and decided to share our 24 favorite Country Christmas albums with you. Find out which albums we spotlighted ... Read More

Lonestar played one of their acoustic "Pickin' on the Porch" dates in Redding, CA, where I attended the concert. Read my review, plus view photos and a slideshow from ... Read More

Everyone has their favorite country artist photos. Have ya ever thought of making stickers or magnets using your photographs? It can be easily done using "The Print Shop." Read my ... Read More

The Favorite Country Male Poll is still ongoing, with a second week of voting before we remove 20 males on the 27th. The Favorite Country Love Song Poll is also ... Read More

The Audio Video Index has clips from several artists, including Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts, Julie Roberts, and now Kenny Chesney. Listen to clips of four of the tracks ... Read More

See which songs are topping the charts, and which song I think will be the next No. 1. All chart rankings are based on the song or album's position ... Read More

From the CMA Close Up News Service - From the opening "Days Go By" - Urban's fifth and latest No. 1 single - and all through the hit-laden set ... Read More

We have two reviews this week. The first is from Ronnie Milsap, reviewed of course by our Ronnie Milsap fanatic, Jolene. It's a collection of standard tunes, Just for ... Read More

Read the continually updated country music news from the week of December 20th, and read previous weeks' news in the Country Chatter Archives

You've heard of the 12 Days of Christmas. We've gone one further and decided to share our 24 Favorite Country Christmas albums with you. Find out which albums we spotlighted ... Read More

At this time of the year, you're probably mailing out a lot of cards and letters. Why not add a little country to your holiday mailings with address labels made ... Read More

We're in Round 3 & 4 in the Favorite Country Male Poll with 90 guys left to cast your votes for. The Favorite Country Love Song Poll is down to 30 ... Read More

From the CMA Close Up News Service - We have two New Artist Spotlights. The first is on Catherine Britt and the second is on Sugarland.

Read the continually updated country music news from the week of December 13th, and read previous weeks' news in the Country Chatter Archives

This week we have three new CD reviews. The first is the Christmas Compilation from Capitol Records, Shimmy Down the Chimney. The album features songs from Trace Adkins, Alison ... Read More

Michael Morris' Live Like You Were Dying stays true to the lyrics written by Craig Wiseman and Tim Nichols while also stretching upon the story line from the song ... Read More

I've added some new profiles to the Country Profile Index on the site. Check out the new profiles for Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Patty Loveless, Gretchen Wilson, Dierks Bentley and ... Read More

See which songs are topping the charts, and which song I think will be the next No. 1. All chart rankings are based on the song or album's position ... Read More

Check out our NEW event calendar to find out which country music stars are celebrating birthdays this month, as well as other events, such as CD release dates, etc.

Loretta Lynn earned five nominations for the 2005 Grammy's. The song "Miss Being Mrs." was nominated for "Best Country Song," as well as the performance she's nominated for as ... Read More

Matt recently saw Mark Chesnutt in concert at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. Here is his review of the show. Plus you can also view with photos, and ... Read More

I've designed some gift tags that will work with Avery label sheets to create self-stick Christmas Gift Tags. There are three different sizes to choose from. Use "The Print Shop" ... Read More

You've heard of the 12 Days of Christmas. We've gone one further and decided to share our 24 favorite Country Christmas albums with you. Find out which albums we spotlighted ... Read More

We're in Round 2 of our Favorite Country Male Poll. We have 100 guys left to vote for. We remove the 10 lowest-voted males each week. When we reach 40, ... Read More

Things are slowing down release-wise as the holiday season approaches. This week we only have two reviews for you to read. The first is from Vern Gosdin, Back in ... Read More

See which songs are topping the charts, and which song I think will be the next No. 1. All chart rankings are based on the song or album's position ... Read More

Read the continually updated country music news from the week of November 1st, and read previous weeks' news in the Country Chatter Archives

I'm inputting all the birthdays into our event calendar. So far, I have all of December and January done. I'll add the other months soon. Besides just birthdays I'll post album ... Read More