Farce the Music's Top 36 Songs of 2022

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 1. Kaitlin Butts - Blood

2. Adeem the Artist - Middle of a Heart

3. Jamestown Revival - Young Man

4. Plains - I Walked With You a Ways

5. Drew Kennedy - Peace and Quiet

6. Michaela Anne - Oh to Be That Free Again

7. 49 Winchester - Russell County Line

8. Big Thief - Certainty

9. Bonnie Raitt - Just Like That

10. Arlo McKinley - Stealing Dark from the Night Sky

11. Jason Scott & The High Heat - Suffering Eyes

12. Madeline Edwards - Port City

13. Kendell Marvel - Dyin' Isn't Cheap

14. Aaron Raitiere - Everybody Else

15. Ray Wylie Hubbard ft. Lzzy Hale & John 5 - Naturally Wild

16. Miko Marks & The Resurrectors - This Time

17. Ian Noe - Road May Flood/It's a Heartache

18. Pusha T - Rock N Roll

19. Hailey Whitters - College Town

20. Gabe Lee - Wide Open

21. Tami Neilson & Willie Nelson - Beyond the Stars

22. Randall King - Around Forever

23. The Wilder Blue - Feelin' the Miles

24. Band of Horses - In the Hard Times

25. Ashley McBryde/Caylee Hammack/Brandy Clark - Bonfire at Tina's

26-35 not ranked

Ben Chapman & Channing Wilson - Things People Say

American Aquarium - Just Close Enough

Zoe Cummins & Gabe Lee - Common Law

Bri Bagwell - Old Together

King Margo - Wildfire

Vandoliers - Before the Fall

Wade Bowen - Burning Both Ends of the Bar

Julie Roberts - When You Wake Up (in the Bed You Made)

John Fullbright - Social Skills

Charley Crockett - Trinity River

Sunny Sweeney ft. Vince Gill - Married Alone

Monday Morning Memes: Toby Keith, American Aquarium, Loretta Lynn

8 New Americana Parody Album Covers

You Better Take That Back

Dollar Bill Prescriptions in the Bathroom Stall

More Tuesday Memes: Walker Hayes, American Aquarium, Tyler Childers

Tuesday Morning Memes: Dolly Parton, Parker McCollum, American Aquarium

This Guy Honors Florida-Georgia Line’s Legacy

Well, I can’t belief it but it has finally come. The day what I never imagined… Florida-Georgia Line’s last concert has happened. They have said their just taking a break but that’s what my ex-wife said too and that bitch is living in Gwata malla or something.

Any way, we’re hear to honor the glorious career of Florida-Georgia Line, the greatest country band in history! They paved the way for country music to not be lame and sad like it used to be and opened doors for awesome singers like Walker Hayes, Mitchell Ten Penny, and Morgan Walling. I can’t thank them enough for making country music great again.

Man, all the times I macked on honeys at a bar while “Cruise” was playing. They new I was a man of distinct coolness when I new every word! I’d take em back on a back road in my lifted Raptor and give em the disappointment of their lifes, but hell their’s more fish in the sea.

Me and my boys did many a keg stand listening to “This is How We Roll” and then we went out for a drive and listened too it some more and threw stuff at signs. Those were the days!

Now, FGL has a lot of critics, so let’s be honest. Were they the best singers? Probably just top 5 all time in that cat a gory. Were they the best lyric writers? Hell yes. Did there songs kick the most ass? You are motherf***ing right! So suck it critics. This band changed the face of are favorite music for the better so go listen to you’re sad boy American Airconditioner or Taylor Simpson or what ever and let me enjoy my good time classic country from Brian and Tyler!

I’m sad too see them go, but I will always cherish the mammaries. Don’t cry because its over, smile be cause of the good times what was. I wish I had been they're for there last show, but I was their in spirit! I hope the crowd pumped those fists, sang those songs, drank those beers, staired at them girls in cut off shorts. Dam that sounds like heaven. Anyway, thank you FGL for the grate music guys!

Pour out a Fireball for da boyz!

Saturday Night Music / American Aquarium / "Burn.Flicker.Die"

More More Monday Memes: American Aquarium, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean

New Video / American Aquarium / "All I Needed"

New Parody Album Covers: Willie, Reba, Dylan Scott, American Aquarium

Happy Labor Day!

An American Aquarium Meme

American Aquarium Covers "Queen of My Doublewide Trailer"

American Aquarium & Jamie Lin Wilson Perform "Lonely Ain't Easy"

Really Dumb Country Reviews: May '21

 (Real iTunes reviews)

Eric Church - Soul

The Marfa Tapes (Lambert, Ingram, Randall)

Thomas Rhett - Country Again (Side A)

Sam Hunt - Southside

American Aquarium - Slapper, Bangers, Twangers

Morgan Wallen - Dangerous

Niko Moon - Good Time EP

Carrie Underwood - My Savior

American Aquarium Covers Sawyer Brown's "Some Girls Do"

Niko Moon Songs Make Me Sad

Americana Bands Suddenly Back Singing About Farm Implements and Black Lung

Almost as quickly as they’d flipped the ideological switches 4 years ago, Americana artists this week returned to familiar pastures, turning their attentions from Donald Trump to subjects more native to the genre. Just like that, well-meaning but sometimes overwrought protest anthems were replaced by the sweet sounds of murder ballads and odes to ghost cowboys.

Some 35 new singles showed up in this writer’s Spotify Release Radar this morning from roots and folk artists, nary a one of them mentioning a “Cheeto” or border walls. Almost as if some dark cloud lifted from their minds, the lyrics of their songs suddenly saw tractors plowing the earth, drunks lamenting their lost loves, and coal miners praying for salvation on their death beds. 

Jason Isbell began work on his promised album of Georgia artist cover songs, even finding himself jovial enough to cover Charlie Daniels’ “A Few More Rednecks.”  BJ Barham of American Aquarium announced that his band was working on a new EP completely themed around North Carolina State’s signature wins in football (may have to be reduced to a single IMO). Even Will Hoge cracked a smile, vowing to release an album of songs about old pickup trucks and moonshining this March.

For his part, country and Americana legend Steve Earle was way ahead of the curve. “Oh I knew the emperor’s end was coming and it was time to get back to what we do best - and that’s singing about things from the 1950s as if they’re still relevant.” Indeed, Earle’s last 4 albums have been either covers or songs about trains, mining, and medicine show barkers.

At press time, producer Dave Cobb was booked from now until Labor Day 2023. Americana is healing.