WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Your eBay Auctionatrix hasn't retired. I took a brief sabbatical so I could get the flu and move to a new apartment in a secret bunker beneath the Hudson River. No, the two are not related. Really. Shut up. Now...
The Confidentials (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
This is an awesome, true country song originally written and performed by the Carter Family. Here, it's masterfully performed by Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys. I love Roy Acuff, this is confidence personified - he owns the stage.
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
A couple of weeks ago I posted what I consider one of the top 5 country music songs that have been recorded. Though very subjective, I offer another one today. Classic county music at its heart is pure and simple. Songs of love, trains, and guitars make the music from decades past even more vital today, when compared [...]
VH1 (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
2006Mouthy pop starlet Lisa Allen tops the U.K. charts with her debut single "Smile." The No. 1 album is prog trio Muse with Black Holes and Revelations.2006A plaque is stolen from Bon Scott's grave in Western Australia on what would have been the late AC/DC frontman's 60th birthday.Courtney Love is rushed to hospital in New York with what her lawyer calls "a gynecological medical condition." Police...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
In case you’re wondering about the small number of posts on this blog in recent days, I have an explanation: I took the family — minus the recent high school graduate — on a 48-hour “stay-cation” dash to Branson. It had been four years since our last trip to the Ozark Mountains city where the [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The Pacific NW "Cheerios for Supper" Family Tour
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Another exciting video regarding BILL MONROE "Father of Bluegrass Music is scheduled to be released by MVD Entertainment Group's MVD Visual on July 8th. This new release features interviews and performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs and many more! ...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
American Idol alumnus Phil Stacey has combined his Christian upbringing and a passion for country music on his new self-titled album for Lyric Street Records. As a consequence, the album is being worked in both musical formats.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Q.Who would have guessed that Jerry Lee Lewis, with his rowdy and reckless lifestyle, would outlive so many other rock 'n' roll icons of the 1950s? Maybe it was because I lived in Louisiana, his home state, but in the...
From On High (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
I watched a brief portion of the Academy of Country Music Awards last night. And then picked up a book and went into another room. It was that put-offish. The extravaganza (strike one) was being held - not in Nashville where it belongs but - in Las Vegas (strike two). Having drifted away from the genre in recent years, I was shocked to see how it has devolved into what I can only describe as acid country...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Brenda Lee, the Oak Ridge Boys and the late Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner have been named as this year's recipients of the Academy of Country Music's Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. Additionally, Dick Clark will receive the ACM's Jim Reeves International
Most-Expensive.net (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
The yo-yo has been around for at least 2,500 years. The earliest surviving yo-yo dates back to 500 BC and was made using ceramic disks. The yo-yo was probably used as a weapon for 400 years in the Philippines, though the chairman of the American Yo-Yo Association's History and Collecting Committee denies it. The world's [...]
CMT News (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
A beaming and grateful Charlie Daniels basked in the adulation of friends, fans and business associates at a party held Wednesday (March 19) at BMI's Nashville headquarters to celebrate the bandleader's 50th anniversary in the music business.
CMT News (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
I sense a bit of a Hank Williams resurgence ahead. He's never really gone out of style since he died 53 years ago from a fatal highball of drugs and alcohol. What Roy Acuff termed as Hank's "timely death" at age 29 has made him country music's forever tra
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
in post Spotlight on Diamanda Galás from Timedoor .
