Upon invitation from the owner of the blog, J.R. Journey, Jonathan was invited to join the writing staff of My Kind of Country. The blog closed its doors in June 2019 for good but houses 740 reviews by Jonathan Pappalardo.
John Anderson was more than an old chunk of coal at Boston’s City Winery
Dixie Chicks Live: long time gone, but back once again
Lee Ann Womack in Brownfield, Maine
Suzy Bogguss in Natick, Massachusetts
Willie Nelson & Family and Alison Krauss and Union Station along with Kacey Musgraves
Dwight Yoakam at Indian Ranch in Webster, MA
Kathy Mattea at the Silver Center for the Arts in Plymouth, NH
‘Every Little Thing’ and Carly Pearce’s fabricated fairy tale
50th CMA Awards: Grading the Twenty Performances
Country Music’s Next Great Renaissance: The unthinkable success of Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Cruise’
Spotlight Artist: Garth Brooks
Television Review ‘The Joey + Rory Show’
Spotlight Artists: Female Singer-songwriters
Willie Nelson & Time Jumpers – ‘Heartaches By The Number’
Dierks Bentley – ‘Somewhere On A Beach’
Charles Kelley feat. Eric Paslay and Dierks Bentley – ‘The Driver’
I?m With Her – ‘Crossing Muddy Waters’
Reba McEntire – ‘Going Out Like That’
New singles roundup: McGraw, Band Perry, Strait