Is 2026 The Year of Disco Country?
More than every other year, I mean.
Put A Record On: An Early Album Of The Year Contender
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 “The Acrobat,” Tenille Townes featuring Lori McKenna:
Country Cinema: 'Cowboy From Brooklyn', 'A Face In The Crowd' and The Long Tail of Imagined Authenticity
Every generation has its own ideas of what is real — yet every generation still seems to pin those ideas to country, folk and roots music. Right now, what feels the most real to most people, it would seem, are short form videos of white men standing in forests playing acoustic
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Put A Record On: Everywhere Isn't Texas (or Tennessee)
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 Everywhere Isn't Texas, August Ponthier:
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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
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Put A Record On: Prechoruses and Hooks and Bridges, Oh My
We love our hooks here at DRTI!
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).
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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 three
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Put A Record On: A Country Workout Playlist
A workout playlist by an extra special guest!
🗨 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