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Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 81. Helms died Monday in Nashville at Skyline Medical Center, said Michael Thomas, a director at Forest Lawn Funeral Home. … Helms had played with [...]
Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 81.
AP - Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 81. Original post by AP
R.I.P. Grammy winning soul great Isaac Hayes, who died Sunday in Memphis, TN at age 65. Look for our tribute to him soon. [CNN.com] In other sad news, Don Helms, the pedal steel guitarist for Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys, passed Monday morning at age 81. Helms also played with Johnny Cash and Lefty Frizzell, and wrote [...]
You may have noticed that the man pictured above is not Johnny Cash. His name, as etched in his guitar, is Lefty Frizzell and he’s responsible for the original version of “Long Black Veil.” The song was written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and recorded by Lefty in 1959. The song hit #6 on [...]
I've studied your case in some detail. Having made my diagnosis, the prescription is clear: You need some Lefty Frizzell. Oh, these "country" acts nowadays are cute. They're all well and good if you're looking for someone to carry on...
There’s not a whole lot of overlap between my musical tastes and my daughters’ (and actually not that much between theirs either). I like to think my music choices cover a very broad range of styles, broader than anyone’s I know. (Ornette Coleman/Rufus Wainwright/Captain Beefheart/Paolo Conte/Lefty Frizzell/Vince Guaraldi/Caetano Veloso–to name a handful.) My two natural [...]
Like his heroes Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, the road is the only home Robert Earl Keen really knows. That road takes him to the Madison Theater tonight.
Willie Nelson is unequivocally recognized as a country music star. The artist has written ("Crazy," "Hello Walls" and "Nite Life"), interpreted ("Pancho & Lefty," "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain") and created ("On the Road Again") some of the genre's most enduring classics. Yet Nelson's success runs contrary to the traditional country-music narrative. His...
Merle Haggard wasn't in the delivery room on the morning country music was born; it simply seems like he was.While no one will refer to him as the father of country music, many will swear he’s its godfather.Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. today for country legend Merle Haggard in concert at the Rialto [...]
Here at the asylum we are always fighting for the liberation of good music. So today, we wanted to focus on the sounds of that ramblin' Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt. If you make frequent visits to the 115th Dream for yer dosage of musical meds, then you have most likely come across our quicksilver daydreams about Our Mother, The Mountain and Townes Van Zandt (self-titled). The bare-boned gutbucket...
Your birthday today: You are intellectual, kind-hearted and loving. You enjoy music and have quite an artistic temperament. Women born on this day make devoted wives, excellent mothers and are the very nucleus of the home. Datedness of this 1938 book notwithstanding, if you are, indeed, the nucleus of your home, perhaps you might consider having a birthday party inside that cell. Even though there...
