Music Design: Country Music

Growing up in North Carolina, country music has always been around me. And I must admit, I wasn’t a big fan of it most of my life. It seemed like a lot of my high school friends listened to country music, and while attending college, I heard even more of it. I think...

Now Playing: Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc

Avicii’s latest single, “Wake Me Up,” has both confused and excited many of his fans worldwide. Of course it has his characteristic big room, progressive house sound with a strong booming dance beat, euphoric vocals, and a catchy as hell hook. However, he...

The Goods: Country at the Grammys

Around the halls of our Austin office, I am the “country music expert.”  I know I’m not the only one that likes country music, but I am the one that comes from a long line of country music lovers (Dad was partial to Western swing and grew up dancing to Hoyle Nix and...

Artist Spotlight: The Time Jumpers

The Time Jumpers is a band of sidemen. If you aren’t familiar with the word “sideman,” it’s a term for a musician that is either not a regular member of a band and or is not a featured member of a band. When you see Taylor Swift in concert, she has a band playing with...

Now Playing: Garth Brooks

The first singer-songwriter inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame was Hank Williams in 1961. He had been dead 8 years by then. He had a short, but remarkable, history of taking a nation by storm. His songs became instant radio hits. He sold out auditoriums all...