
The year 2002 was a great year for country music. Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait and Keith Urban were on the top of the country music charts and the Dusty Armadillo opened their doors for the first time. The club in Rootstown, Ohio is celebrating their 15th anniversary this...Read More »
The Thirsty Cowboy has announced the participating bands for this year’s Battle for the Jam. The competition starts on Thursday, July 6 and continues on July 13 & 20 with a Final competition on August 3 with the top two bands from the preliminary rounds. Each week the Thirsty Cowboy...Read More »

Brent Lowry & the Drifters have been making the most of 2017 and will top off the list of highlights when the Northwest Ohio band opens for Toby Keith at the Bash on the Bay Country Music Festival on August 31.
The band released their second EP, The Drifter, in May...Read More »

Mark Leach is a self-proclaimed Eric Church fan and his latest single “She Don’t Go to Church” is an ode to many songs by the “Chief.” In the song Leach talks about the troubles of a relationship due to the divide of the love of Church. He interjects Church song...Read More »

Battle For The Jam
The Thirsty Cowboy in Medina will host the Battle For The Jam which will give the winning band the slot to perform at this year’s WGAR Country Jam at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea.
The competing bands will each perform a 45-minute set during the preliminary rounds...Read More »

With summer comes the time of fairs and festivals and lots of great country music. There is already a long list of events all over our region, and one guy you definitely need to see live as you make plans is Chris Higbee.
Growing up in Pennsylvania, Higbee started a love...Read More »

Performers have to put in years and years of work before they can finally see the fruit of their labor come to fruition. For AC Jones (Amanda Jones) last week was one that will be remembered as one that finally saw so much finally come together for the Youngstown Country...Read More »

About two years ago and after year’s of performing with bands, Mitch Kirkpatrick decided it was time to try his own thing and perform as a solo artist. His self-titled EP with the single “BYOP” was released just last year and was a great place to start for the Lancaster,...Read More »

The benefit show on Saturday, May 6 at Thirsty Cowboy in Medina will bring six acts to the stage with a headline performance from Mark Leach.
The show is a fundraiser for the Drake & Reindl family of Medina. The family had a devastating event occur on February 9, 2017 when...Read More »

Erica Dawn has been keeping things pretty much “under wraps” about her upcoming EP, This Bottle. She shared a little about the release and what she has learned since her first EP, Break Of Dawn was released last year.
The new EP will contain three songs that were written by her and Dustin...Read More »

There is that Hollywood story line where a small town boy makes it big. For Ryan Robinette that story line is his life.
Robinette is from Senecaville, Ohio, where the population is around 450 people. He moved to Nashville recently chasing that dream of becoming a big name in Country music...Read More »

When Jessica Hannan was getting ready to release her EP, Drive last fall she already knew that the song “Girls Night Out” would be the song she would shoot a video for first. That dream will become reality this Friday night when Hannan and her band perform at Yankee...Read More »
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