Each year, country music puts out some outstanding albums. These are About reviewer Kathy Coleman's choices for her Top 10 for the year.
Gail Davies, who is an established recording artist in her own right, has produced an excellent tribute album for Curb Records. This is an excellent album for the old time country music lover.
Dale Watson offers no apologies for keeping country music as real, grounded, and down-to-earth as country music can get and is supposed to be. You won't find any false surface gloss over Dale's magnetic live performance, only country music as country music is supposed to be. This is the real deal, wrapped up in a tight, solid package of talented dynamite.
Daryle successfully attained a rather quick rise to top of the Country Music charts with some of his previous singles and instead of putting another album out there to contend with the crop of new artists, he simply tipped his hat to those that inspired him to be what he is today - and he did it well.
Kevin Fowler is well known around Texas. He can write, he can sing, and he can play his guitar, but if there was one sentence I could say to sum it all up for you, I would say that his music is definitely fun to listen to.
After more than five decades of making tremendous music that can alternately touch, anger, inspire, and enlighten, Johnny Cash returns to the studio to present a new disc that is simply
overwhelmingly full of heart and soul and pure emotion.
Roger Wallace is one of Austin's finest voices, and in a town that is virtually bursting with talent, that's quite an honor. With his singular, unique approach to his music, Wallace manages to be completely new while at the same time never forgetting for one moment country's pure, golden roots.
Thirty years after recording "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," the band reforms to do it all again. Although for some time the remaining members have been called simply The Dirt Band, they've restored their name & a number of original members, & come back to the circle, a circle which will remain unbroken as long as this music is remembered and cherished by these musicians and others like them.
Heather Myles has a take-charge, solid country voice of the sort not heard on country radio in over a decade. With a powerful alto that commands attention, Heather takes on honky-tonk country music with a muscle that only a very few female singers have dared.
Some of the best of the best real country and Americana artists came together on this disc to honor the Man in Black, who has for a full five decades forged a trail through music, defying genre and style to become a Legend, loved by rock and country and blues fans equally, known and respected by anyone who ever picked up a guitar, sat down at a piano, or fiddled with a bow.
Who would have known back in 1989 that when a blond-haired singer hit the country music scene, that he would achieve such a superstar status in a relatively short span of time. Along with Garth Brooks and George Strait, Alan Jackson has continuously put out great tradition sounding country music for the fans to enjoy.
