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Steve Conn Honors His Father's Legacy with a Project Decades in the Making
After fifty years, Louisiana musician Steve Conn finishes restoring his late father Peanut Conn's reel-to-reel recordings, a swing violinist's legacy brought back to life.

Louisiana Country Music
Aug 125 min read


Inside the First Louisiana-Based LCM Writers Retreat: Where Songs Were Written and Lifelong Friendships Began
Louisiana Country Music brought its writers retreat home for the first time, welcoming nine talented singer-songwriters to Jena, Louisiana, for 2½ days of collaboration, creativity, and community. The retreat produced eight new songs, lifelong friendships, and ended with four artists taking the stage at Songs for St. Jude to help raise more than $30,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Louisiana Country Music
Jul 284 min read


How A Louisiana Singer Helped Make a 94-Year-Old Veteran's Dream Come True
An unexpected email revealed how Louisiana singer-songwriter and Army veteran Jeffery Allen Imler helped 94-year-old veteran Earl Cobb fulfill his dream of hearing patriotic songs written for America's 250th birthday professionally recorded.

Louisiana Country Music
Jul 224 min read


From Nashville Hitmaker To CJ Solar & The Old Souls: His Next Chapter Sounds A Lot Like Home
Discover the story of Baton Rouge native CJ Solar, the songwriter behind Morgan Wallen's "Up Down" and Jameson Rodgers' "Some Girls," and learn how CJ Solar & The Old Souls is bringing him back to the music that inspired him from the beginning.

Louisiana Country Music
Jun 16 min read


The Trace Adkins Hit That Almost Didn’t Happen: Songwriter Lee Thomas Miller on “You’re Gonna Miss This”
By Louisiana Country Music Before it became a No. 1 hit, “You’re Gonna Miss This” was a song no one was sure would ever work. In this behind-the-scenes story, hit songwriter Lee Thomas Miller pulls back the curtain on the doubt and timing that nearly kept one of country music’s most emotional songs from ever reaching radio. Throwback photo of Lee Thomas Miller, Trace Adkins and Ashley Gorley / Photo via LeeThomasMiller.com From the very beginning, doubt surrounded the song

Louisiana Country Music
Feb 54 min read


The Baton Rouge Songwriter Behind Cody Johnson’s Powerful Hit
How Baton Rouge native Benjy Davis co-wrote Cody Johnson’s “The Painter,” a Gold-certified No. 1 hit that proves Louisiana songwriters are shaping Nashville’s future.

Louisiana Country Music
Oct 20, 20253 min read
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