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@KyleCoroneos
Founder & Benevolent Dictator of Saving Country Music. News, reviews, commentary, criticism. Since 2008.
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    @KyleCoroneos
    Jan 1, 2018
    60 years ago today Johnny Cash played his 1st ever prison concert at San Quentin. In the audience was a 20-yr-old petty thief whose crimes didn't fit state prison, but had escaped local jails 17 times. Cash inspired the inmate to pursue a music career. His name was Merle Haggard.
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    Apr 9, 2022
    The moment the Turnpike Troubadours took the stage at Cain’s Ballroom, officially ending their hiatus.
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    Apr 21, 2025
    You might have seen George Clooney in “O Brother Where Art Thou,” but it was Dan Tyminski you heard. One of the greatest bluegrass vocalists of all time, captured here at the Luckenbach Bluegrass Festival on Saturday.
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    Sep 5, 2022
    An era in Texas music, country music, and American music has just come to a close. At 12:32 am Texas time, after an epic set of all the hits and then some, Robert Earl Keen took his final bow at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes. God bless Robert Earl Keen, and God bless Texas.
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    Oct 5, 2024
    Zach Top boot scooted out of a time portal from 1994 to save country music in real time at the Fort Bend Country Fair in Texas Thursday night. Locals say they’ve never seen such a big turnout for a new artist since George Strait in 1984.
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    Sep 20, 2024
    Dwight Yoakam tearing up while accepting his Lifetime Achievement at the Americana Music Awards. Like Dwight said earlier in his speech, Americana is the only organization that ever gave him Artist of the Year. Appreciate that Dwight has ZERO CMA Awards. So this meant something.
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    Apr 9, 2022
    First five songs of the Turnpike Troubadours first show back in Tulsa: 1. Every Girl 2. 7&7 3. Easton & Main 4. A Tornado Warning 5. Good Lord Lorrie
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    @KyleCoroneos
    Apr 9, 2022
    I can officially report that at about 9:50 Tulsa Time, the Turnpike Troubadours officially reunited. Everything is right in the world, at least for this brief moment. Never, NEVER give up hope. In anything.
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    @KyleCoroneos
    Nov 18, 2022
    This is 2022, and many of your favorite indie artists like Tyler Childers, Billy Strings, Zach Bryan, and Turnpike Troubadours are now major stars. This is what saving country music looks like. You can no longer see them in small clubs, but this is a good problem to have.
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    Jul 14, 2024
    “CouNTry MusIC doESn’t NEeD to BE SaVED.” It’s too late. Zach Top already has. He’s taking traditional country back to the top again, and for good this time, and we’re all here for it. Hype? Sure. But believe it. Captured here at Under The Big Sky Fest in Montana.
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    Jul 15, 2024
    Bad ass beyond belief. Billy Strings brings out Zach Top at Under The Big Sky Fest to play a blazing version of “Freeborn Man.” In a day of epic moments from the festival, this bluegrass guitar off might top them all. For folks that don’t know, Top started in bluegrass.
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    Aug 27, 2019
    “If you’re not on country radio, you don’t exist,” - fmr. Sony Nashville CEO Gary Overton - 2015 Cody Jinks, Red Rocks, CO - 2019
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    @KyleCoroneos
    Feb 16, 2024
    On April, 8th, 2022, I personally witnessed grown ass men acting just like this little girl when the Turnpike Troubadours took the stage at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, officially ending their hiatus. Don't ever, EVER criticize the beauty and power of music to stoke human emotion.
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    Aug 17, 2018
    If someone says they don’t like country music, hand them a Turnpike Troubadours album. If someone says they only like mainstream country, hand them a Turnpike Troubadours album. If someone doesn’t know the Turnpike Troubadours, hand them a Turnpike Troubadours album.