Harmony's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
My seventh ten top ten albums are country, folk or blues that haven’t yet made another category list. Hank Williams, Ramblin’ Man Coming across this LP was a real find. I have a couple of greatest hits collections, which are great, of course, but this album is full of gems, not least the title song. I’ve [...]
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
in post does anybody remember laughter? from snuhthing/anything .
BatesLine (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Drummer Johnny Cuviello and steel guitarist Herb Remington wrote and recorded this song as part of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys way back in 1947 -- with Johnny's drum solos alternating with a catchy steel melody. Sixty years later, last October, on Johnny's 92nd birthday, they played it again...
BatesLine (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Back in May, I wrote about a store soon to open on Brookside called Ida Red: Just across from the Coffee House pushcart, Jim and Alice Rodgers of Cain's Ballroom had a booth to promote their new Brookside venture, Ida Red, named in honor of the famous Bob Wills tune...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Merle Haggard played to a sold-out crowd at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday night (June 25) with a compact 75-minute set filled with country classics like "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried." Not one to linger, the final note of "The Fightin' S
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
in post Favorite Country Artist Results, Nos. 15-11 from Setting The Woods On Fire .
Matablog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VDege8R_Ew I’ve been listening to more and more world music recently, especially ethnic and folk recordings issued on 78 in the pre-LP period (that goes as late as 1970 in places like South Africa). One genre I’ve discovered that floors me is son huasteco, the country music of the northeastern Mexican state of Huasteca. I have [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Cowboy's fiddle, like most fiddles, is ordinary. It is moody, delicate and worn a scarred spruce and maple body married to a frayed horsehair bow. Often imperfect. Sometimes beautiful.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
GROESBECK, Texas – Cowboy's fiddle, like most fiddles, is ordinary. It is moody, delicate and worn – a scarred spruce and maple body married to a frayed horsehair bow. Video Loading Video...A visit with Wilmer "Cowboy" Little during Groesbeck's fiddle festival 05/23/2008 Texana Videos Often imperfect. Sometimes beautiful. Groesbeck, near the birthplace of Bob Wills, is fiddle country. And Wilmer "Cowboy"...
ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The hillbilly music of the south is a genre of music that is beginning to grow at an immense rate throughout the United States. Originating in Bristol Tennessee, country music is a type of music that integrates the blues, jazz and originally some "hillbilly folk" with a bit of swing, and just recently some pop has been added to the sound. The lyrics represent the "faithfully charted vicissitudes of...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Brenda Lee, the Oak Ridge Boys and the late Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner have been named as this year's recipients of the Academy of Country Music's Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. Additionally, Dick Clark will receive the ACM's Jim Reeves International
Cranky Greg's View (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Glen Campbell singing the Rose of San Antone, ala Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Pretty Cool if you ask Cranky Greg. This is Glen before the Beach Boys and before Tanya Tucker and before his DWI.
Bifurcated Rivets (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Vintage Cowboy Music - appears to have Bob Wills material that is unavailable elsewhere.
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
As the second series comes to an end (that's 75 shows in all) here's everything you wanted to know about Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. Most played artist: George Jones - "Kind of a cross between a modern-day Prometheus...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Those are the artists Bob Dylan has played most often on "Theme Time Radio Hour" — from a nice, long set of lists of things from the brilliant radio show. Poets referenced, authors referenced, movies referenced, TV shows... Here are the TV shows: The Beverly Hillbillies, Chico and the Man, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hee Haw, Josie and the Pussycats, The Honeymooners, Leave it to Beaver, Lil’ Abner, Welcome...
