With her current single "Should've Been Born With Wheels" rising up the charts, Oklahoma's Shawna Russell has released "Goddess."  While it's rocking, the album has a lot of roots in country. Do these roots stand out or do they get washed away in the mix?

Randy Houser has connected with audiences before as a songwriter of hits like "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" but now he's ventured onto the charts with the hit single "Anything Goes." With the success of that album, Randy now presents his debut album of the same name.  Is there enough here to suggest a future star?

Taylor Swift came out of nowhere as a 16 year-old in 2006 and managed to be the first artist to capture the young MySpace crowd.  Will she manage to keep their attention on "Fearless?"

Mark Wills released five albums during a successful run with Mercury Records Nashville.  For his sixth album, he's teamed up with Tenacity Records to release "Familiar Stranger," A solid collection of songs that will please his fans but will it gain him any new listeners?

George Strait is a superstar because he finds a way to record hit after hit. They just don't stop. This is his latest music video from his album of the same name.

Heidi Newfield scored right out of the gate with her first Top 10 single in "Johnny & June." Now she returns with a hopeful single that actually works well 'for these times' that we're living in.  Despite the timliness of the song, is there enough to make this one a second consecutive hit?

Blessed with the ability to turn plain words into musical poetry, Bruce Robison has carved out a highly-regarded career as a singer-songwriter. "The New World" is his latest album and has many of the hallmarks of his past albums along with a leaner, rawer sound.

Heidi Newfield first came to prominence as the dynamic lead singer of the trio Trick Pony. After recording 3 albums and scoring a few hits with that band, Heidi decided it was time to move on. She signed to the same record label, Curb Records, that Trick Pony was signed to and set about to record the tracks for her surprisingly solid solo debut.

Nashville is a town that is perpetually following trends so it was inevitable that labels would seek out other pretty teenage girls and sign them to record deals after Taylor Swift exlploded on the scene. While it'd be easy to peg Katie Armiger as a 'follower,' she has actually been working towards her career as long as Taylor. Is she as talened? Read the Roughstock review of Katie Armiger's second album "Believe" to find out.

Like most of the country stars of the 1990's, John Berry found himself without a label home early into the new millennium. Rather than rest on his laurals of past successes, John returned to his DIY roots and restarted his Athens, Georgia based record label. "Those Were The Days" is his first recording of all-new material in seven years.