Marissa Moss

Kelsea Ballerini & Carly Pearce: Can You *Have It All* in Country Music?

First off, thanks for all of you who joined me last week in the CMA chat post. Some of you gave the excellent feedback that you think we should consider a DRTI Discord - curious to hear what more of you think (Discord? Right here on the newsletter? Reddit? Whatever?

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Put A Record On: It's All Our Fault

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 "In Her Eyes (Act I, Scene

The DRTI CMA Live Chat & Predictions Forum

It's Country's Biggest Night! And like many of you, I'll be watching tonight's CMA Awards from the comfort of my couch. But it wouldn't be a CMA Awards if we didn't offer you up a safe comment section

Something good comes along, then it’s gone: Farewell, Todd Snider.

When I moved to East Nashville in 2012, legend had it that if you wanted to find Todd Snider, all you had to do was go to Drifter’s BBQ in Five Points, and he’d be there at the bar. Nashville always had rumblings like this: that John Prine

Put a Record On: An Instrumental Country Playlist for Writing (or whatever else you do)

As someone who listens to music all the time, and writes about music and musicians for a living, there is one curious time when I am extremely picky about what I listen to: when I am actually writing. And when I am in that deep work, ignore everything else and

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Put A Record On: Who Gets to Grow Old?

Welcome back to Don’t Rock the Inbox. Here’s this week’s music recommendation post and playlist, which are for paying subscribers only. Sorry if they are a little late in the day today - I got stuck in the airport mess thanks to Trumps Government Shutdown! - MM

Put a Record On: For the Mothers

I've been thinking about motherhood lately. Just kidding - I think about it and write about it all the time, because it's obviously very much a part of who I am, as a mom to two young kids who refuses to hide this part of myself

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Put A Record On: I Guess This is Growing Up

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 "Field Song," Mon Rovîa: I

About that blonde woman’s album that came out October 3rd…

Forgive me for the subject line of this newsletter, a tacky bait-and-switch. But in a world of fifteen-second TikTok clips, sometimes you must resort to the low road. Because no, I’m not talking about Taylor Swift here - though I am happy to talk about Taylor! I am talking

Put A Record On: Upbeat Songs for Downbeat Times

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 “Steppin’ Outside,” Cory Branan featuring Tyler Childers:

Kelsey Waldon Answers the DRTI Proust-ish Questionnaire

For as long as I have been living in Nashville, Kelsey Waldon has been making her own kind of country music. I remember the first time I heard that voice, the voice John Prine said he’d listen to sing the phone book: it felt like it carried the ghosts

Put a Record On: What's Spookier than Country? (A Lot Actually)

Look, I know there is other music news in the world today, but nothing stops Don't Rock the Inbox from getting into the October spirit, especially when faux Halloween horror serves as a very good way to (temporarily, only for a moment) disassociate from actual real world horror.