I only saw this when flicking through the guide - tonight is Johnny Cash night on BBC4. I'll be Sky+ing them 21:00 Johnny Cash: The Story of Folsom Prison Documentary exploring Johnny Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in 1968. 22:00 Later with Jools Holland and Johnny Cash Jools Holland plays host to the Man in Black, who performs a selection of his classics. (R) 22:30 Best of the...
Holly will definitely deck local halls this holiday season - Holly Cole, that is. The Canadian chanteuse brings her eclectic take on the Yuletide, "A Night Before Christmas," here for the first time this week. The singer assembled an intriguing
Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
More photos » by David J. Phillip - AP That guy still does not believe... CRUSH HIM!!!!!! Browse more photos » CJ's remarkable run has garnered him a lot of high praise, but it gets none higher than being compared to perhaps the greatest athlete, never mind the greatest RB, of all time : [Johnson's] five consecutive 100-yard games and running for more than 1,200 yards and averaging more...
I've been from coast to coast a hundred times or more I ain't found one single place where I ain't been before White line fever Merle Haggard, "White Line Fever," 1969. But the "coast to coast" that figures into my post is the coast of Lake Superior to the Atlantic coast. US Route 41 begins at Copper Harbor, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula, and it ends in Miami, Florida. In...
Actually I suspect there’s lots of musicians and artists who sing or art their hearts out, but like the massive crowds of normal, sane people (no, not “Nazis”, my tolerant liberal friend) that are drawn to Sarah Palin during her book tour this week, or coverage of Obama’s loss of popularity, or headlines and news stories explaining the valid and noble and important reasons...
As I went about my life maintenance errands last weekend the words of a Merle Haggard song kept running through my mind. “How far can a man stretch a Dollar, I thought as I take home my pay”. I made a trip to the grocery store designed to get me through to the next paycheck [...]
I've been meaning to make it down to Tapas on Ann St. in Hartford for months to catch the Monday night stand with the Shinolas, an erstwhile band consisting of great session players. Local guitar slinger, producer, film scorer and friend, Jim Chapdelaine, and also-local percussion, multi-instrumentalist, producer and friend Lorne Entress recruited bassist Paul Kochanski and talented pedal steel player...
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, wrote yesterday about Bob Dylan’s Judaism. He is guest-blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Bob Dylan’s Christmas album is that it took nearly fifty years for him to make one. There is a long-established tradition of pop [...]
John Fogerty After rekindling his music with years of woodshedding on guitar, the former Creedence Clearwater revival front man celebrates classic country and folk on The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again . By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Amazon.com Widgets Nineteen seventy-three was a strange year to be John Fogerty. He was just off a spectacular run with his band Creedence Clearwater Revival, from the swamp-rocking...
JAY BOLOTIN Jay Bolotin Locust FOLK / AMERICANA LP Jay Bolotin's eponymous debut was released in 1970 on the Commonwealth United label, and was met with boundless praise from the country aristocracy, with the likes of Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner eulogising over his work, and Kris Kristofferson declaring the young Kentuckian "one of the three best songwriters in the country". This LP...
In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House’s Blue Room. As a horde of media huddled a few feet away, the country music superstar had come to discuss prison reform with the self-anointed leader of America’s “silent majority.” “Johnny, would you be willing to play a few songs [...]
Paging Roy Clark. Keith Law has the following item over at ESPN's MLB rumors. The Atlanta Braves have fired Tom Battista amidst a number of changes to the club's scouting department, ESPN Insider's Keith Law has learned. [...]
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President Nixon to Johnny Cash: "Johnny, would you be willing to play a few songs for us," Nixon asked Cash. "I like Merle Haggard's 'Okie From Muskogee' and Guy Drake's 'Welfare Cadillac.'" The architect of the GOP's Southern strategy was asking for two famous expressions of white working-class resentment. "I don't know those songs," replied Cash, "but I got a few...
This year’s Stagecoach event, as the lineup has just been announced. This year’s concerts will take place on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25 next year (2010 concerts) The initial STAGECOACH 2010 line-up includes ........ Buy Tickets
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