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BGS Class of 2024: Our Year-End Favorites
Music

BGS Class of 2024: Our Year-End Favorites

Each year, when we begin the process of curating our year-end round-ups with our BGS and Good Country contributors, our prompt is never about superlatives or true “best of year” selections. We don’t strive to craft these lists ba...
By: BGS Staff
Becca Stevens Strips It All Back on ‘Maple to Paper’
Interview

Becca Stevens Strips It All Back on ‘Maple to Paper’

In her dynamic, restless career, Becca Stevens plans to never repeat herself, like the proverbial waterway that’s never the same river twice. Since being noticed by New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen in 2008 as a 24-year-old “best kept s...
By: Craig Havighurst
Music

BGS Wraps: It’s the Rootsiest Time of the Year

Each year, the BGS Team likes to “wrap up” the year in music by featuring holiday, seasonal, and festive tunes and songs throughout the month of December. It’s a perfect way to generate holiday cheer while shining a light on some of the high quality new – and timeless! – seasonal music we’ve got ...
Premieres

You Gotta Hear This: New Music From Hanneke Cassel, Zoe & Cloyd, and More

This week, our premiere roundup is full of brand new music videos and performance videos for your viewing pleasure. Fiddler and composer Hanneke Cassel kicks us off with an exciting, dance-ready remix of “Dot The Dragon’s Eyes” that celebrates the 10th anniversary of her album b...
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Good Country

‘Welcome to the Plains’ and to the Red Dirt Universe of Wyatt Flores

Each year, the country music machine and its many fans and acolytes turn over, again and again and again, the quintessential question of “What is authenticity?” We’ve asked that very question quite a few times on Good Country ove...
By: Justin Hiltner