By Mason Everett Country music has always maintained a complicated relationship with temptation. Its songs warn against it, surrender to
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By Caleb Monroe In contemporary Christian music, where sweeping choruses and familiar four-on-the-floor rhythms often provide the architecture for congregational
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There was a time when some of the biggest voices in music could effortlessly move between the church pews and
Country music has always known that a house can tell the truth long before the people inside it do. The
Country music has always carried two histories at once. One belongs to the charts, the fashions, the changing accents of
There has always been a peculiar American habit of turning ordinary language into prophecy. “Born to Run.” “Fight the Power.”
There are recordings that arrive like announcements, declaring themselves with confidence and certainty. Then there are songs like Devotion, from
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Popular music has long been fascinated with hometowns. Some artists turn them into symbols of escape; others transform them into
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There are plenty of songs about summer. Most of them rely on familiar ingredients: a catchy chorus, upbeat production, and lyrics about beaches, sunshine, and good times. Elvira Kalnik’s “Summer Time” certainly checks those boxes,
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