Ben Wilder

That time Taylor Swift sang the National Anthem

Country music has some strange things going on these days. On one end you have the more traditional sounding hitmaker Lainey Wilson (check out my take on her video for “4x4xU”) but at the very same time, there’s the TikTok propelled “Bar Song” by Shaboozy and the country song nobody was really asking for inContinue reading “That time Taylor Swift sang the National Anthem”

American Music in Other Countries

I’m starting this post out with a mention of Morgan Wallen but if you don’t like him or don’t know who he is, hang tight, I’m just using him as an example of a more general idea about music. Earlier this month, Morgan set the record for the biggest country music concert in the UKContinue reading “American Music in Other Countries”

Tom MacDonald’s New Song About Trump Will Give You Chills…

After the Twin Towers fell in New York City, country icon Alan Jackson released a song that encapsulated so much of the feelings and reactions of middle America. As I remember that song, my brain doesn’t really separate it from the day of terror, as if they happened on back to back days. But itContinue reading “Tom MacDonald’s New Song About Trump Will Give You Chills…”

Dasha “Didn’t I” – Who’s the Guy in the Music Video?

Country music has such a wide range of styles right now and making her mark in the line-dance-friendly, percussive-heavy category is a young woman named Dasha. She has a string of singles but the first one to take off (thanks to TikTok) was “Austin.” Parlaying her success with that track, she’s got another one that’llContinue reading “Dasha “Didn’t I” – Who’s the Guy in the Music Video?”

Thomas Rhett “Overdrive” Music Video – The Pick-Up, the Puns, the Pet Peeves

I love the clips of the young lovebirds riding through the carwash in the back of the pick-up truck. You’d think someone would’ve thought of that by now for a music video but I can’t recall ever seeing it before. Of course, the reality is that those big rubber brushes would’ve knocked them out coldContinue reading “Thomas Rhett “Overdrive” Music Video – The Pick-Up, the Puns, the Pet Peeves”