Hello newsletter friends, I hope you are all enjoying this start to summer (it's currently pouring on the Saturday I am writing this, so currently waiting for things to actually feel like summer over here). A quick update on my end: this week, I started as a Senior
Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email. The Good "Never Really Mine," Kaitlin Butts:
Who's a real cowboy? The question has been central to American culture (popular and otherwise) for almost as long as it's existed, filtered through novels and songs and (of course) endless Westerns, where myths around the tough, rugged and macho American West were consolidated by posh
The summer playlist is a pretty beloved (by me, at least) tradition here at DRTI — paying subscribers have access to all the previous ones here — and as we've discussed quite thoroughly, the country trend of this summer seems to sync up with our pre-existing interest in disco country
Lainey Wilson works her ass off. This ability to keep going, at first against all odds and now to keep up with the ravenous demands of her career, is the centerpiece of a new documentary about her life, Keepin’ Country Cool, which debuted last month on Netflix. Working hard is
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Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email. The Good "Crisco," Miranda Lambert: Not Miranda
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I'm writing this the day after my first Mother's Day as a mother, in the hour and a half or so I have each night after the baby has gone to bed and before I go to bed if I plan to get any sleep at
A country music newsletter.
Yee-fucking-haw: there's a new Kacey Musgraves album in the world. Middle of Nowhere has been out for a week now, so hopefully you've all had enough time to sit with it for more than a few listens - enough listens, to discuss here! We chatted through
I've probably told this story here before, but the man that really drew us to Nashville was Justin Townes Earle. We'd come to visit during a now-defunct music festival called Soundland, and Justin was playing in a small room off the Korean Veterans Boulevard roundabout, mostly
Earlier this week, we paid a slightly belated homage to the gone-too-soon songwriter Don Schlitz. In spite of the fact that he wrote one of the most widely beloved pop songs of the last century (it was even turned into series of TV movies), he was hardly a household name
At the far-too-young age of 73, we've lost one of the people whose work defined the very best of what it meant to be a Nashville songwriter. "The Gambler" will be in all the headlines — understandably, given its place in the American pop canon and countless
Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email. The Good "Long Con," Creekbed Carter Hogan:
Hello friends!! Tonight we will finally be hosting our Alice Gerrard edition of the Don't Rock The Inbox Book Club at 7:30 p.m. CT — all paying subscribers are welcome to join our Zoom discussion of Alice Gerrard's memoir, Custom Made Woman: A Life In
Another day, another stupidly hateful action in my beautiful state of Tennessee: namely, the news that our Governor signed a resolution last week that June - aka Pride Month - will now be designated as "Nuclear Family Month," celebrating households that consist of "one husband, one wife,
Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s playlist, which is for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email. If you're anything like me, you spent last week absolutely riveted
Some outtakes from my 2024 conversation with Miranda Lambert.
Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. If you’re interested in paid content but not able to afford it, shoot us an email. The Good "Country & Midwestern," Tigirlily Gold:
It’s hard to believe (oh no, that’s not a pun I swear), but somehow, Kacey Musgraves’ song about not getting laid received 24 adds at country radio since its release a few weeks ago. For a white dude singing about trucks or dadlife, that wouldn’t be a
Moving day playlist!