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Hopes Of Record Executives Head To Nashville For Fourth Quarter
In the New York Times Kelefa Senneh writes “It’s a yearly tradition: Summer ends, the fourth quarter looms (after a dismal first three), and the fragile hopes of record executives head south, to Nashville.” She then lists a few country artists who might be able to break out of the sales slump.
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Lost Johnny Cash Performance To Be Released Later This Month
When talking about his new album, Cowboy Town, due out on October 2nd, Ronnie Dunn said:
“This really is kind of like cowboys meet the Rolling Stones. There’s a bunch of fun stuff on there. And it sounds different than anything we’ve ever done.”Watch: Adam Hood plays a couple of songs live in studio at Reg’s [...]
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Brooks & Dunn - “Proud of the House We Built”
The spankin’ new single from superduo Brooks & Dunn is a retreat from the in-your-face sound of their previous hit, “Hillbilly Deluxe,” into the safe, mid-tempo world of contemporary working-class America. “Proud of The House We Built,” (Written by Dunn) is a song about the struggle to start, and maintain, a stable family amid the [...]
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ACM Award Winners And Shooter Jennings Is Expecting Baby With Girlfriend
The big buzz around all the news sites this morning pertaining to country music is the ACM Awards show last night. In case you missed it, check out our live blog for a recount of the events as they happened. Overall I felt like it was a pretty successful show. They highlighted mostly good artists [...]
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Buck Jones Killed In Car Accident On The Way To His Next Gig
Willie, Merle, and Ray talk about recording their Last of the Breed album, which comes out tomorrow.
“It was real easy to figure out what to record,” Price said. “We all three went in with songs we’ve loved for years, decided on which ones we’d do, pull one out, say yeah that’s by so-and-so, get the [...]Continue reading "Buck Jones Killed In Car Accident On The Way To His Next Gig"
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Country Music Returns To LA Radio And Joe Nichols To Sing At Anna Nicole Smith’s Funeral
Los Angeles announced the other day that they’d be regaining a country music station and now San Francisco is following suit.
“Country music has never been stronger,” Scott Mahalick, the new KMAX program director, told the San Jose Mercury News. “Before you had country artists like Faith Hill crossing over to other formats. Now you have [...] -
Merle Haggard Going Bluegrass And Alan Jackson Teams Up With Brooks & Dunn
Can you think of a bigger badass than Kris Kristofferson? Yea, me neither. He’s had an accomplished career as a songwriter, singer, and actor. He is a Rhodes scholar and could have had a promising career in the military had he not turned it down for doing something he’s passionate about. Star-Telegram.com has an article [...]
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Concert Review: Brooks And Dunn ‘Rock My World’
Most of the performers I’ve seen at the San Antonio rodeo are driven to the stage in a truck, but Brooks & Dunn walked out to the stage where the band and three back up singers were waiting for them. They were everything you see on TV; Ronnie with his tight pants, long boots, [...]
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Nice Profile On Rick Rubin And Stay Tuned For An Exclusive Interview With John Michael Montgomery
The past couple of days seems to have been a little slow on the news front, but we’ve found a few things of interest. By the way, you’ll want to visit the site tomorrow, we’ve managed to land an email interview with Jenna’s favorite singer of all time…John Michael Montgomery! She said she was all [...]
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In an attempt to discover and highlight the best music every month, We'll be publishing a list of the best songs released throughout that period. Here's Brady Vercher's picks for October.
For the second episode of The 9513 Country Music Podcast, your host Kelly Dearmore caught up with two seemingly different artists in Sarah Borges and Trent Willmon. Take a listen.
Free Music Downloads: If you’ve only recently come to country music, or have never delved past the genre’s surface and it’s most famous names, you may not have heard of Tom Russell. That’s a shame, and The 9513’s Free Music series is here to help set you down the right path.
Martina McBride - “Ride” Catchy, but a little low on cogency–not to mention originality. And it essentially resolves into the same kind of positive “message song” that has defined so much of McBride’s recent work.
Richie McDonald - “How Do I Just Stop” So gloriously simple and unequivocally lackluster that people of every political persuasion should rejoice in the opportunity to come together and have a hearty laugh at its expense.
Donnie Vondra - “If I Didn’t Love You” Combinining a golden trifecta of country music—steel guitar, fiddle and a strong, twangy vocal—"If I Didn't Love You" pulls together a sweet, toe-tapping ditty reminiscent of Marty Raybon-era Shenandoah.
Lance Miller - “Bacon Frying” A charming country song that is beautiful for its simplicity, a musical remnant from a time when songwriters understood that often the best thing to do is just get out of the song’s way.
John Rich - “Another You” For a guy who is supposed to be a genius songwriter, John Rich sure does seem to be running out of ideas. 
George Ducas - “Walk Through This World” Ducas banks on the success of recent artists’ pleasantly bland lyrics and agreeable instrumentation for his first release with WhiteStar Nashville.
In this exclusive interview for The 9513, Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook talks about life with the band, as well as A Place to Land, the group’s current album, which has charted in the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart on two separate occasions
Forgotten Artists: Cal Smith - When the Florida Sunshine Opry (Eustis, FL) booked its first “name” (non-local) act back in 1999, the act they chose was Cal Smith. No wonder, since Cal is an excellent singer, musician, storyteller and showman. | View more artists featured in Paul W. Dennis' recurring "Forgotten Artists" feature »
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