The title track to Willie Nelson's second Sinatra covers album (and seventy-first album overall) is reminiscent of the original, but Nelson's slightly offkilter vocal inflections continue to add a certain amount of charm.

Not one of his stronger singles, but "How High" is definitely a song in Kip Moore's catalog that warrants a listen as he sings about the effect that a woman's love has on him, with the use of some perhaps too on the nose marijuana references thrown in the mix.

Another single from Hailey Whitter's upcoming deluxe album Living the Dream, "The Ride" is an uplifting and inspiring song wherein the main artist, along with help from fellow country artist Jordan Davis, tell the listener and the "dead-end boys" and "breakdown girls" of the world that whatever personal struggle they are going through is merely the road to something better.

I first heard Aaron Watson back in 2017 with the release of his eleventh studio album Vaquero, the follow-up to 2015's acclaimed The Underdog. At this point, I had just truly started to come into my own as a self-described "music critic," so maybe I was a bit too harsh on it, but I wasn't really into it. And while I enjoyed a few songs from 2019's Red Bandana, I just never returned to it. I am not entirely sure why I can't get into Aaron Watson's music. He falls under neotraditional, ... read more