Latest Breaking News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Three Girls And Their Buddy: latest news about updates, Three Girls And Their Buddy, Three Girls ,And Their, Buddy, buddy miller, emmylou harris, patty griffin, shawn colvin ,If you buy tickets to the 3 Girls and Their Buddy Tour expecting to hear all your favorite songs, well, you might get a different show than you [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Filed under: Exclusive , Spinner Interview , Country When Rosanne Cash was 18, her father Johnny Cash gave her a hand-written list entitled '100 Essential Country Songs.' Rosanne was a budding songwriter and dad was alarmed that his Beatles -obsessed daughter lacked a deep understanding of country music. He compiled the list and told her to learn every song. In the fall of 2009, Rosanne Cash released...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
http://www.mediafire.com/?1toxzgtmmzd Lefty Frizzell was the definitive honky tonk singer, the vocalist that set the style for generations of vocalists that followed him. Frizzell smoothed out the rough edges of honky tonk by singing longer, flowing phrases -- essentially, he made honky tonk more acceptable for the mainstream without losing its gritty, bar-room roots. In the process, he changed the...
Featured Blog Posts - Americana and roots music - No... (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Find more photos like this on Americana and roots music - No Depression Joe Ely was talking to Doug, from our local venue, The Backyard, asking who was going to have a benefit for Haiti. And Doug told him, “You are.” Once Joe found appropriate phone numbers, he put out the calls. At first he heard nothing. Then, as he put it, the show went from a 2 hour to a 4 hour concert, to a 6 hour,...
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 01/01/2010
While traveling cross country he came upon a boarding house in Mankato, Minnesota. There he not only received room and board but found his future bride Bobbie as well. During their stay in Minnesota they had their only daughter Barbara. They left Mankato to travel in New York where they spent most of their time. That story is one in itself!. He started off making G-Strings for show girls working his...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
The songs we hear sung by Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges), the onetime country-music superstar at the center of Scott Cooper’s film Crazy Heart, are infused by a weary regret. "I used to be somebody," he sings to a sparse crowd gathered at a bowling alley in southern Colorado, and it's only the first of a series of lyrical recriminations that he'll declare. Offstage, Blake is anything but...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 12/15/2009
Fox Searchlight Pictures threw a little holiday party at a fashionable SoHo hotel the other night, and no wonder. The company has had a very good year. Three of its movies are getting serious critical love as the year-end polls come in. The animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and its director, Wes Anderson, have just won [...]
the DeafBlog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Busking is a tough way of making money at the best of times. The young musicians, who usually entertain passers-by outside shops and railway stations, have a hard enough time enduring the wind and rain which is an occupational...
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
George Jones is known as the Rolls-Royce of country singers, but his origins are anything but luxurious. Born in a log cabin to a poor family in "the Big Thicket" region of East Texas, Jones started out imitating his idols Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell, joined the Marines, served in Kor...
Funny Video (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
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Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Tickets for this year’s Austin City Limits Festival sold out weeks ago, but those willing to work can exchange three five-hour shifts & a $15 application fee for a weekend pass to the event. Visit workexchangeteam.com for more details and to apply for the ACL and/or Festival 8 teams. In other ACL news, the schedule for the festival - which takes place in Austin’s Zilker Park on October...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Rosanne Cash may have inherited a thing or two from her father, Johnny Cash , but her love and understanding of country music wasn't a given until 1973, when he gave her a list of 100 essential country songs. Cash recently recorded a dozen of those songs for an album entitled -- for obvious reasons -- 'The List,' which will be released Oct. 6. Rather than...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: “Nashville Or Bust,” a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music’s most hallowed landmarks...
NAC Daily News and Intelligence (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Playlist Notes: Most of the songs that were played at the 2008 and 2009 Songs of Cities party, presented by Next American City, can be downloaded from iTunes here . To see more of Issue 24, click here . SONGS OF CITIES – 2009 DJ Doug Sell at NAC’s Issue 24 launch party at the Dark Horse , Philadelphia. Josh Ritter, “Harrisburg” The Swimmers, “Heaven” Hall &...
Feministe (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Hands-down the best country and western song ever, ever, ever is “Long Black Veil.” It sounds like the kind of song that should have always existed, been sung by lonely men wandering Scottish moors or something. It was, though, written by some folks whose names we know–Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin–and first recorded by Lefty [...]
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