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Pardi, Muscadine Bloodline, Turnpike Troubadours release records

Friday, April 11, 2025 – Jon Pardi's "Honkytonk Hollywood," his fifth studio album, is out today. Pardi recorded the disc with producer Jay Joyce, spending three weeks in the studio with his touring band handling the majority of the recording. The release contains 17 tracks. Pardi has enjoyed six number one songs in his career.

The duo Muscadine Bloodline released "...And What Was Left Behind" on Stancaster Music/Thirty Tigers. The new album is as a companion to their 2024 record, "The Coastal Plain" and comes on the heels of a series of breakthroughs for the duo, including their biggest add week at country radio with their debut radio single, "10-90" and several shows as direct support on Post Malone's F-1 Trillion Tour last year. Produced by Muscadine Bloodline's Gary Stanton and Charlie Muncaster with Ryan Youmans, the record has 11 songs.

Turnpike Troubadours put out "The Price Of Admission" on via Bossier City Records/Thirty Tigers. The Oklahoma-based band only announced the album earlier this week. The disc is the follow up to their 2023 album, "A Cat in the Rain" an was produced by Shooter Jennings.

Kolby Cooper returned with" Love You, Goodnight." Cooper wrote or co-wrote all 14 songs on the record, which includes a collaboration with fellow Texan Danielle Bradbery. Andrew Baylis and Michael Whitworth produced the set. This is Cooper's second album for BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville with Combustion Music.


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CD review - Merry Christmas from Jon Pardi You know from the first notes of Jon Pardi's "All I Want For Christmas" that this is going to be good album as it starts off with a steel guitar intro. Later, there is also a twin fiddle solo. These elements reveal how this track is a true country version. It's also executed well, which makes this old holiday warhorse of a song somehow sound fresh and new. It's one of 12 winners and proves once again what a gift Pardi is to us all. The content is consistently secular, ...
CD review - Mr. Saturday Night Jon Pardi's "Mr. Saturday Night" sounds as though most of its stories take place on the weekend at an idealized country honky tonk. Many of these drinking holes also feature swinging doors and jukeboxes. They don't seem like citified bars, but they perfectly fit Pardi's enjoyable neo-traditional song cycle. Although the drums pound much harder on the single "Last Night Lonely" than they do on truly traditional country music, Pardi incorporates far more fiddle ...
CD review - Heartache Medication Jon Pardi may sing about heartache medication with this collection of songs, but his focus on arrangements filled with traditional musical elements (fiddle, steel guitar and twangy electric guitar) is joyfully medicinal for anyone sickened by so much mainstream country music that lacks many (if not all) of these essential country instruments. These songs read as well as they sound, though. For example, the drinking song "Me and Jack" begins with a thumping, Johnny Cash-inspired country groove. ...


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