Blown Away, Carrie Underwood

It’s been over two years since we were last able to get our hands on a new album from Carrie Underwood. During that time she focused on her marriage to hockey player Mike Fisher and took a little break from touring and recording. Now she’s ready to make a comeback with her latest album, Blown…

Miranda Lambert, Four the Record

Since her debut album, Kerosene,hit the country music scene in 2005, Miranda Lambert hascontinued to grow and develop as an artist by rarely giving us the same albumtwice. Four the Record once againfinds the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year reinventing her sound and style todeliver one of the finest country albums of the year….

Stealing Angels, Stealing Angels

Sometimes it’s a shame that too often business and politics can serve as a wall between music and its listeners, especially when it concerns new artists. If a single fails to make a big enough impact on the charts, an entire album can either be scrapped or shelved by the label and may never see…

Chris Young, Neon

Chris Young has worked his way up from a Nashville Star winner to one of country music’s brightest stars by releasing songs that stick true to his traditional roots yet are just mainstream enough to be played on today’s country radio. With “Tomorrow” becoming his fastest rising and career defining single, Young released his third…

Indie Spotlight: Album Review: The Red Letter Days, Stephanie Eason Band

In this portion of ATC’s Indie Spotlight, we’ll be reviewing the Stephanie Eason Band’s first full-length studio album, The Red Letter Days. Find out what we think about the album in our Indie Spotlight! The album starts off with the upbeat “Charlotte to Phoenix” which finds Stephanie telling the story of a couple who wants to…

Laura Bell Bundy, Achin’ and Shakin’

Last Tuesday, broadway-turned-country star Laura Bell Bundy released her first album on Mercury Records Nashville titled Achin’ and Shakin’. In an effort to seperate herself from other newcomers, Bundy’s album takes a massive risk in delivering two six pack albums in one. Is the risk executed well enough to make Bundy a country superstar, or…

Gary Allan, Get Off On The Pain

Over the course of a career no one has evolved musically and artistically as much as Gary Allan. From the traditional sound he showed on his debut album, Used Heart For Sale, to the new mainstream country-rock sound he’s shown on his previous two albums (2005’s Tough All Over and 2007’s Living Hard), Allan has…

Album Review: Danny Gokey, My Best Days

On the 2009 season of American Idol, Danny Gokey wowed the judges and viewers with his strong vocal talent and soulful performances. After a third place finish on the show, Danny Gokey signed with RCA Records Nashville and now has released his debut album My Best Days. Will his debut album help catapult him to…

Album Review: Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin

Country newcomer Easton Corbin recently found himself inside the top ten of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with “A Little More Country Than That” and is now gearing up to release his self-titled debut album, Easton Corbin. With his old school traditional style of country music, Corbin has been widely regarded as being the new…

Album Review: Josh Turner Haywire

Country traditionalist Josh Turner released his latest album, Haywire, this past Tuesday and it’s another solid album from the country crooner. On this album, Turner goes a little more mainstream but also keeps his usual traditional sound as well. The album kicks off with its lead off single, the recent #1 hit, “Why Don’t We…

Album Review: Need You Now, Lady Antebellum

Country music’s reigning Vocal Group of the Year, Lady Antebellum, released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Need You Now, on Tuesday and it’s no doubt going to rake in some big numbers during its first week. Having listened to the album online before it was officially released, I had a fairly good idea what to…