Laura Cantrell was born and raised in Nashville, but came to New York City for college and never left. She's not only a singer and songwriter but a musicologist as well, serving as the proprietress as The Radio Thrift Shop on WFMU. Rolling Stone has called Laura "A modern woman with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage...
Who says marriages can not last any more? And famous ones at that! I love stories such as this one. (And I love Kitty.) Country music’s most enduring couple, the legendary Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright, celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary this past Friday, October 30th. Kitty married Johnny on Oct. 30, 1937, when she was only 18 years old. [...]
Hillary Harris Grand Archives new Sub Pop release Keep in Mind Frankenstein is out now and waiting for you. The theremin, pedal steel, cello, and accordion doused album sits richly in a set of speakers. It lilts through to ears like a late, low afternoon sun angling through a dusty ridge cabin window. Some form of hawk overhead sees a field mouse from two hundred feet up but doesn’t dive to...
Well, that's the birthdays over for another year...they come round too quickly...Liz cooked a very nice meal for the 2 of us , on Saturday evening...we didn't do too much...went to the quiz in the Bluebell on Sunday evening...I had an interview for a job on Saturday morning..got word today..no luck...I'm getting a wee bit depressed about it now...we're going to Chrissie Miller's funeral on Friday...should...
What does it take to be the finest pure country singer of your generation? Consider the life of Patty Loveless: A childhood raised on Kitty Wells, the Stanley Brothers and church hymns. Family struggles in the coal mining towns of Kentucky. The mentorship of Porter Wagoner and eventual husband Em...
Nashville, TN -- Prolific songwriter Jerry Chesnut will take a seat at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum on Saturday, September 26, as the latest subject of the quarterly programming series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters. The 1:30 p.m. program, which will be held in the Museum’s Ford Theater, is included with Museum admission and free to Museum members. ...
Something a little different today for Saturday Song. When the story of country music is written one of the essential personalities of the genre that is always talked about is that of Kitty Wells. Deservedly so! She was controversial in her time as she toured on the road in ways that men did (gasp), and sang [...]
Kitty Wells Happy birthday, Kitty Wells. If getting banned from radio stations in 1952 for being too racy wasn’t enough to make me love you, you’ve also managed to stay married to the same man you wed in 1937 — likely the longest celebrity marriage ever. I don’t which accomplishment impresses me more! [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bloodkin: 2009-08-07, Denver [mp3,ogg,flac] "Happy" [mp3] other Bloodkin posts at Largehearted Boy Brittany Reilly: 2009-08-14, Stony Fork ]mp3,ogg,flac] "The Places I call Home" [mp3] Brittany Reilly: 2009-07-31, St. Augustine [mp3,ogg,flac] "It Wasn't God Who...
As some regular followers of my posts know, I often slap together a podcast here in Vancouver for CITR-FM consisting of various audio bric-a-brac. The station also does an annual "show swap" in which programmer's take over another programmer's show,...
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