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Dec 28, 2020 We made it through the most difficult year in American history. I don't know about you, but music helped me though it. There were so many great songs and with everyone isolated, even more to come in 2021. Here are my favorite 10 country songs of 2020. Let's start with a song that reminded us to be a good person, especially in times of darkness. Thomas Rhett, joined by a bunch of his superstar friends performing "Be A Light" at #10. While that song helps center us during these crazy times, Eric Church delivered a powerful single aimed to challenge the country music community to...

Tweet Another cultural icon and trailblazer has left this plane. Country Music Superstar and Legend Charley Pride has died from complications of Covid-19. He was 86. From his website: “Charley Pride, whose rich baritone voice and impeccable song-sense altered American culture, died Saturday, December 12, 2020, in Dallas, Texas of complications from Covid-19 at age 86.” Pride’s family issued a statement on Facebook upon his death. It is a beautiful tribute to the legacy of family that Pride left behind: “No person of color had ever done what he was doing.” Hootie and the Blowfish a...

And The Trail Blazed For Black Country Music's Future Charley Pride has died. He was the first singing Black country superstar. Because of the power of his legacy, he will not be the last. Pride was singularly prouder, Blacker, and more easily identifiable with country music than likely every Black person who will ever sing or work in the industry of country music, for the rest of time, combined. He boldly faced impossible odds and amazingly — in a genre often stereotyped as lily-white and racist to its core — established a sustainable industry within country music for Black people t...

Charley Pride turned 70 on March 18. You should know this. Everyone should know this. When Johnny Cash hit that milestone in 2002, his record labels past and present staged a yearlong celebration. Virtually every album Cash had recorded up until that point was reissued, with previously unreleased songs included on the discs and glowing essays tucked into the CD booklets. Willie Nelson got the same treatment as he approached his 70th the next year. It was the proper way to celebrate the lives and legacies of two country music icons. Charley Pride should have been treated to a similar celebrati...