Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Songwriter Hank Cochran is recovering at a Nashville hospital following surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his pancreas and lymph node.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Songwriter Hank Cochran is recovering at a Nashville hospital following surgery to remove cancerous tumors from his pancreas and lymph node.
CMT News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Once again, Alan Jackson is out there hitting the highways this summer, singing hit after hit after hit. He's proven himself a durable entertainer over the last two decades, and it must be hard to narrow down a set list when you've got so many possibiliti
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It used to be that a list of albums offered up in December or January could paint a definitive, or at least representative, picture of The Year in Music. While that annual list is still a great way to say goodbye to the past year’s music and hello to what is to come, nowadays so many new albums and reissues vie for listeners that even a list of the best music from the past six months can seem quaintly...
Tenderfoot Diaries (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Sometimes I feel like Jesse James, Still trying to make a name. Knowing nothings gonna change what I am. I was a young troubadour, when I rode in on a song. and I'll be an old troubadour, when I'm gone. - Troubadour by George Strait Today is Dad’s birthday. All of 79 years old and still has that youthful mentality. I think it’s his tremendous will to live and push the pedal to the floor that keeps...
Travel Dispatches (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
8:55 p.m. July 6--- The highlight of my July 4 weekend was seeing Chuck Prophet and his Mission Express band kick off the 28th annual American Music Festival at FitzGerald's roadhouse in Berwyn, Ill. Based in San Francisco, Prophet...
Musings from a Catholic Bookstore (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
This post reminded me about something I have been meaning to write about for several weeks. Rush Limbaugh just renewed his contract for his radio program and is getting an “obscene” $440,000,000 for the new contract. I have heard the words obscene and excessive thrown around a lot in regards to his and other celebrities’ salaries [...]
Billboard (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The lights and candles and wreaths were out in Sheryl Crow's Los Angeles living room -- in mid-June. Christmas came early in Crow's world this year because of an as-yet-untitled holiday album she's recorded with producer Bill Bottrell for Hallmark's annual series.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
The country legend, along with rocker Pat Benatar, entertained to raise money for hearing aids for kids.
Missourinet (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Today, folks, we are going to take a break from all things political (well, most things political) and blog about one of Missourinet's part-time news anchors - Henry Atkinson. Why tell a story about Henry? Frankly, I'm as baffled as...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
With trendy blond hair, a scruffy beard, designer-frayed jeans and custom lizard boots, James Chippendale is hardly a guy you'd pick out as an insurance executive. But before George Strait hit the concert circuit, Gwen Stefani faced the spotlights, Ludacris picked up a mike or the Austin City Limits Musical Festival turned up the sound, their promoters bought policies from him. His 15-year-old company,...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Not much cracking this week on Billboard 's country charts. Taylor Swift's self-titled album has bobbed to the top once more, and Brad Paisley snuggles in for his third week on the summit with his song, "I'm Still a Guy."
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Release Marks Travis' Return to Country Music After Nearly a Decade WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- From the top of the music charts to the silver screen, Randy Travis has been entertaining audiences with his brooding baritone and rugged swagger. Now, almost 25 years later, with nearly 30 top 10 song hits, 20 feature film roles and countless television appearances, Travis will, once again,...
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
in post Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be (plus John Hiatt and George Strait) from Ceci N'est Pas un Blog .
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
in post Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be (plus John Hiatt and George Strait) from Ceci N'est Pas un Blog .
