Robert K Oermann, Author at MusicRow.com

Robert K. Oermann is a longtime contributor to MusicRow. He is a respected music critic, author and historian.

BMI’s Harry Warner Passes

May 21, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

Longtime BMI executive Harry Warner died Wednesday, May 16, at age 83. The Music Row fixture was also […]

May 17, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

With its 2018 award-nominations announcement, Americana music is in the news this week. […]

May 16, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

Longtime country music executive Joe Taylor died on Monday, May 14, at age 85. As the head of […]

May 15, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

Longtime Country Music Association executive Helen Farmer has died at age 92. She was the […]

May 10, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

DISClaimer receives a blast from the past this week. It’s the 1980s all over again as […]

May 3, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

And now for something completely different. Restoration is billed as Nashville’s re-imagining […]

April 27, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

Today belongs to the “young country” crowd. Veterans Montgomery Gentry and Sugarland take […]

April 26, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

Dierks Bentley brought The Mountain to Music Row on Wednesday morning, April 25. At what […]

April 20, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

America’s foremost “new old-time” music band, Old Crow Medicine Show, had plenty to […]

April 19, 2018/by Robert K Oermann

The Americana genre is bringing out some of its most stellar artists for the spring […]