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THE POLICE with ELVIS COSTELLO
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
in post Ernest Tubb Plays Chuck Berry from Setting The Woods On Fire .
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
With a name pronounced hassle, not hazel, the prolific singer-songwriter's life was as wild as his material
TV Barn (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
At 9:58 p.m. last night, I got this email: **LIVE! Watch Severe Weather Coverage From KMBC** As Ernest Tubb would put it, thanks a lot. I had been spending the previous two hours getting this view of the severe weather...
Atomiq (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Last week I was in Nashville, Tennessee speaking at Voices That Matter, a fine web design conference hosted by the folks at Peachpit. The conference was great, of course. Some amazing people worked on (and around) my book and I...
Scenestars (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Paste’s 17 Coolest Record Stores In America Via Stereogum Sadly, Record Store Day doesn’t last forever, so it’s good getting periodic reminders about the importance of these spaces. In that spirit, the July issue of Paste, the one with MMJ on the cover, includes an article on “the 17 Coolest Record Stores in America.” This is [...]
Token Liberal (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
SOMEWHERE BREAKING NEWS (TL) -- Unlike professional journos, I have no carefully cultivated sources inside the political machinery. Nonetheless, I have a bombshell every bit as stunning as Scott McClelland's news that Bush lied: Obama will slap on white pancake...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Mark Holt and Kimberlee Holt Tully's "Midnight Rider" hit the #1 spot on the Unsigned Bands Bluegrass Music Chart. The group's "One Last Dance" is also holding the #4 slot in the chart. ...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
As remarkable as the late Eddy Arnold's country music career was, his lasting legacy will be that he made the world safe for country pop music. His enormous success with a smooth brand of mellow songs won over pop and country audiences alike and took the
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
in post Country Tangos and Hillbilly Rhumbas (mp3s) from WFMU's Beware of the Blog .
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
"This week marks the arrival (April 29, 1937) and unfortunately the departure (April 25, 2005) of The Wildest One Man Band Hunch Machine that ever stalked the planet. ... ... Early on, he'd mail out his home-recorded concoctions to the country music stars of the day, hoping to place a song or grab a plum spot on a traveling package show. Like the rest of the world, Nashville would have to wait a few...
Blue Yonder (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
If you're a little fiddle player, or the kind of little guitar picker that proudly displays his (sort of) calloused fingers, Gruene Hall is the stuff dreams are made of. If you didn't know any better, you might pass right...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Kevin "Slim" Forsythe and his band, The Parklane Drifters, travel around the United States playing country-swing music that makes audiences get up and dance. Forsythe is known for tributes to early 20th-century country music greats like Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Buck Owens and Johnny Cash.
VF Daily (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
By Duff McDonald People have long wondered what goes on in Bob Dylan’s mind. But if you pay attention to...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Upon learning that George Strait's latest CD is titled Troubadour , my mind began wandering back to the days of my youth when the Texas Troubadour, Ernest Tubb, was one of music's hottest acts.
