Martina McBride

By Brody Vercher It’s been ten years since Elvis Presley appeared on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, but he logged his second entry in two weeks with the No. 43 debut of Martina McBride’s duet on “Blue Christmas.” That follows last week’s No. 60 bow of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with Carrie Underwood. It...

By Brody Vercher Originally released in 1976, “Let Your Love Flow” went to No. 21 for The Bellamy Brothers, but a recent credit card commercial introduced the tune to a wider audience, helping it rise up the UK charts. (watch the commercial) Lee Ann Womack earned the 26th spot on Paste magazine’s Best of 2008...

Martina McBride - “Ride” Catchy, but a little low on cogency–not to mention originality. And it essentially resolves into the same kind of positive “message song” that has defined so much of McBride’s recent work. ...

Waking Up Laughing was something new. Change isn’t always bad and as someone else said “there’s always room for more hope in this world” and Martina supplies that hope. Juli November 22, 2008 at 7:42 am Permalink ...

By Juli Thanki After nearly a two year hiatus, Martina McBride is back with a new single off of her album Martina McbRIDE, slated for release in March 2009. Despite the success of serious songs such as “Independence Day” and “A Broken Wing,” McBride has spent the past few years traveling down the safe rout...

By CM Wilcox Still, some wealthy, well-connected country kingpin should put this album in the hands of every young female singer currently on a Nashville label roster–fans of good, traditional country music would be eternally grateful. CM Wilcox is author of the popular country music blog Country...

By Brody Vercher Don’t forget to enter our contest to win a copy of Call Me Crazy.The Museum of Bad Album Covers is currently featuring 156 awful albums covers, one of which is Satan is Real from The Louvin Brothers. They do however, append its inclusion with a note stating that “the Louvin Brothers were actua...

By Matt C Too many cover albums fall into the comfortable paradigms of reserved, standard interpretations of oft-covered standards (Martina McBride, Timeless and recent Shanachie Records projects by Gene Watson and David Ball) and irreverent ...

By Matt C Take “Cry, Cry ‘Til the Sun Shines,” a puerile self-help anthem that, of all the songs on Martina McBride’s Waking Up Laughing is perhaps the least deserving of a second chance, and “Nothing Burns Like a Memory,” a vapid piece of ...