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Country music album reviews from Holler.

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Album - Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone
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Carly Pearce - 29: Written In Stone

As crushing and humiliating as heartbreak can be, it always allows for a rebirth of sorts. For Carly Pearce, it's resulted in 29: Written In Stone - a modern country music masterpiece.

Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed Album Cover
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Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed

On star-crossed, Musgraves' vulnerability doesn’t fully disappear, but neither does she trust it so completely anymore. What emerges are astute observations told plainly. Wrapping them in witticisms or metaphors would lose the truth they need to convey — to herself as much as to anyone else.

Charley Crockett - Music City USA
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Charley Crockett - Music City USA

It’s tricky to pick one singular track to return to after the 50-minute album is complete. It’s once again an all-killer-no-filler album, Crockett keeping up his extraordinary run of matching quantity with quality, all garnished with an endearing, “aw-shucks” vibe.

Album - Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs For This?
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Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs For This?

Did I Shave My Legs For This? caught the fever that was tearing through country music in the 90s, as a new army of women spiced up tradition with a reinvigorated tone of feisty independence.

Album Cover - Garth Brooks - Ropin' The Wind
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Garth Brooks - Ropin' the Wind

It’s been exactly 30 years since Brooks released his pivotal third album and changed the way people heard country music. We take a look back on its legacy.

Home In This World: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads Album Cover
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Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads

These interpretations replicate the timeless qualities all great work exudes. The artists breathe new life and fresh inspiration into material whose words and melodies haven’t lost an ounce of their powerful intensity, regardless of the style they are replicated in.