Put A Record On: Lowering My Blood Pressure, Musically

As a lot of you know, I recently joined Marissa in momland and about three months in, I'm coming to you on ~three hours of sleep (hey, an hour for every month!) after a night with a generally cheerful, very gassy, huge baby. To say that it'

"I'm A Dumb Redneck": Jelly Roll's Cop Out and Nashville's Imagined Norm

Imagine if we could go two weeks in this newsletter without having to reckon with some country/politics foolishness. Imagine if people like Jelly Roll and Kid Rock would just shut up and sing!! I jest, of course, but naturally, in a week where we should only be talking about

DRTI Country & Americana Grammy Hopes, Fears & Predictions

Greetings from Nashville, Tennessee, where I start this post the same way I did last week: worried for my neighbors who still don't have power and worried for the world, which makes talking about a television show feel a little silly at times. But look - I love

Put A Record On: Prechoruses and Hooks and Bridges, Oh My

We love our hooks here at DRTI!

A Nurse Who Served Veterans Was Killed. Where You At, Country Music?

I'm not going to lie to you, newsletter readers: it's hard to newsletter "normally" today, though, to be fair, I could almost say that about any day for the last near decade. Outside my window, the town is frozen. Somehow we currently have power,

Converting the Skeptics: A Curated Guide to Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley has always been an enigma - he can bust out the most country radio-friendly tune you have probably ever heard in your life (see: "Drunk on a Plane") but then he will show up at the CMA's flanked by Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, and

Third Stream Country, or Pop Country For Those Who Don't Listen to the Radio

Thinking about country music that doesn't fit (in a good way).

Put A Record On: New Year, Same Songs About Whiskey (But Good)

New year, new music - though yes, there are at least two songs with whiskey in the title. It's a country newsletter!

The DRTI 2026 Country Ins and Outs

Hello readers - welcome to 2026, Happy New Year (are we still allowed to say that?) and thanks for allowing us a wee break to tend to our tired hearts and tiring children. If you missed our best of 2025 list, you can review that here, too. New year, same

Put A Record On: A Country Workout Playlist

A workout playlist by an extra special guest!

Courtney Marie Andrews Answers the the DRTI Proust-ish Questionnaire

A quick note to our community: we cannot thank you enough for reading and subscribing to our little country newsletter this year! We're very excited for what 2026 will bring, and hope that you will let us know in the comments what you hope to see more of

🗨 Don't Rock the Comments Section: Your 2025 Best-Ofs

Somehow we're already just about done with list season, and on the cusp of that blissful couple of weeks when time sort of collapses into a decadent holiday haze (unless you're working in retail or food service, in which case — I am so sorry, on behalf