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
Playlists
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
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Put A Record On: A Texas Country Christmas
For a Lone Star holiday :)
Poptimism and Country Music and You (Plus 6 2025 Country Radio Hits You'll Actually Like)
If you're chronically online (and I'll start by saying I hope you aren't), you probably caught a secondhand whiff of various discourses earlier this year among the tragically music nerdy about poptimism — a savior or a villain or something in between, depending on where
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Put A Record On: Gettin' By, Gettin' Laid
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. Oh PS - our 40% off sale ends this
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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
country chart history
This Week In Country Chart History: Standards, Sexism and Cincinnati Dancing Pigs
Back with more arcane country chart history, because as we all know it brings me great joy :) Hop in, let’s take a ride on the Billboard time machine… 75 Years Ago: November 11, 1950 In its 19th (!) week on the chart, we have the now-standard "I'm
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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
James Talley On 50 Years of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love'
The veteran singer-songwriter talks with DRTI about his timeless debut, and the half-century since.