Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Photos Leaked by CHP Peter Davi Died in the Waves Evel Knievel Dead at 69 Country Music Legend Porter Wagoner Dead at Age 80
Listen Up (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Gospel singer/composer Dottie Rambo dies in bus crashSad to hear that longtime Southern gospel singer and songwriter Dottie Rambo . She was 74.Rambo had toured and recorded for years with family group The Rambos (also known as the Singing Rambos) and the Gospel Echoes. A prolific songwriter, she had songs recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Porter Wagoner, Barbara Mandrell, Alison...
Billboard (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Since arriving in Nashville at 18 and being introduced to America on "The Porter Wagoner Show," Dolly Parton has written some of the most enduring songs in the pop and country canons, conquered film, television and Broadway, and launched successful businesses from theme parks to record labels, and most recently had her songs "interpreted" on American Idol.
A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Sarcastro said we now had RFD in Nashburg. Woo hoo! I’ve done recorded me some Porter Wagoner, Pop! Goes the Country (Ralph Emery had him a fuzzy beard back in the old days. I forgot how he used to look) and the Wilburn Brothers. The Wilburn Show I saw today was done during the era [...]
The World According to Oatney (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Porter Wagoner on Letterman
Jason Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
For those of you who don’t know, Porter Wagoner was a country music icon and legend. A Country Music Hall of Famer no less who sold countless records and reached the homes of millions of people as the host of the syndicated Porter Wagoner Show from 1960 until 1981. Perhaps more easily recognized […] More: continued here
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
... a #6 hit in 1970. He can be seen here , via youtube, doing Welfare Cadillac live on the Porter Wagoner Show. Smokey Harless - A Place For Them Called Hell (2:29) ( here's the label shot) Smokey sings about returning to the states after an Army hitch overseas and finding himself more than a little disenchanted with what he finds back home. Sample lyric: "They can...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
... a huge cross. Many of Roy Roger’s film costumes were also commissioned from Nudie’s of Hollywood. Porter Wagoner was said to have had some 60 or so Nudie suits in his wardrobe, which he became famous for wearing in performance. The Wilbourn Bros. had 30 charted hits between 1955 and 1972 including their biggest single, 1966’s “Hurt Her Once for Me” and the following year’s classic...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Word on the street in Nashville is that Dolly Parton is planning a tribute to the late Porter Wagoner , a country legend and Parton's long-time singing partner. Wagoner gave Parton her big break in 1967 by adding her to the stable of musicians on his weekly country music TV show, a program as famous for its bedazzled blazers as it was for its music, a fact not lost on Parton in...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Herschel "Speedy" Haworth Jr., who played lead guitar on the 1950s country music show "Ozark Jubilee" and had hits with the original Porter Wagoner Trio, has died at age 85.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
... ate animals caught by her tobacco-farmer dad. 3. Dolly got her big break when country music legend Porter Wagoner signed her to his TV show in 1967. They were a well-known double-act until 1974, when he sued her for striking out on her own following the success of 'Jolene'. She penned 'I Will Always Love You' about their split. 4. Dolly's been married to publicity-shy Carl Dean, who...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
No Depression, the magazine that served as both a tastemaker for the alt-country set and a bridge that helped classic Nashville acts such as Johnny Cash, Ralph Stanley, and Porter Wagoner find an audience among a new generation of fans, has announced that it will cease publication with its seventy-fifth issue. In a letter addressed to readers, publishers Grant Alden, Kyra Allen, and Peter...
Living in Stereo (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
... fucking Stanley on its cover, long before the good Dr. became an icon for the dark cultists? Or Porter Wagoner? Or Solomon Burke? Or Isaac Freeman or Little Miss Cornshucks? Don't know who the latter are? Well, that's your loss and my point. No Depression was stubbornly out of touch with everything, and especially whatever the industry of cool and cash–the one that devours the young...
Starpulse Entertainment News Blog (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Dolly Parton has dismissed reports she and mentor Porter Wagoner were estranged when he died late last year, insisting she was at his bedside. Country music legend Wagoner discovered Parton, duetted with her and reportedly romanced her, but then sued her when she dumped him to go solo.[...] Read more!
Bitten and Bound (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
... Casey Calvert, Guitarist For Hawthorne Heights Found Dead Travis Barker Dead? Country Music Legend Porter Wagoner Dead at Age 80 Photos of Princess Diana's Final Moments
