Willow Avalon is a rising artist whose on-stage charisma made people in the crowd yell, “Willow, I love you!” No, really, it happened multiple times. Avalon’s music oscillates between a blend of country, folk, and the kinds of tunes you’d be likely to hear in a saloon during a bar fight. Last year, she opened for Cage the Elephant on their “Neon Pill” tour.

There’s so much Nashville Dirt-Road-Chevy-Ram-Ford-Pickup-Truck garbage that gives country as a whole a bad name. But behind that steaming mound of Bro-country crap, there are so many extremely talented artists from down South who deserve at least a listen or two.

Turn on a country radio station these days and after a while you’ll feel like you’re listening to the same song about trucks and beer over and over again. A full run-through Florida Georgia Line’s new album, “Anything Goes,” produces pretty much a similar experience; only a couple of slower tracks offset the list of rollicking country songs about back roads and day drinking that all seem to blend together around about the halfway mark.

Keith Urban’s eighth studio album, “Fuse,” was released on Tuesday. The album is an update on Urban’s typical style of country with a pop flair, introducing more rhythm and blues and some sultry vocals. The album features only 13 tracks, but the deluxe version on iTunes offers three more for true Urban fans.

Although he’s been doing well for himself on the country music scene for about 12 years, Blake Shelton only really shifted into the focus of the pop culture masses after becoming one of the celebrity judges on NBC’s popular contribution to the endless TV talent shows, “The Voice.

Grab your 10-gallon hats and slip into your rockin’- and rollin’-est cowboy boots. Country music icon Reba McEntire is coming to St. Louis. While the redhead’s over-40-year career has proved to be an inspiration for several newer country artists like Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes and Faith Hill, Reba continues to put out No. 1 hit after No. 1 hit.

Stuffed with the best known names in country music, “Now That’s What I Call Country” is the perfect hits CD for country music lovers.