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George Jones Announces Billy Sherrill’s Induction Into Musicians Hall
George Jones and rocker Peter Frampton announced the newest inductees to the Musicians Hall of Fame yesterday. Among the inductees are Billy Sherrill, Jones’ long-time producer who hounded him for 12-months to record “He Stopped Loving Her Today;” Buddy Holly’s band, The Crickets; Booker T. & the M.G.’s; Al Kooper; the Memphis Horns and the [...]
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Tim McGraw Channels Inner Shel Silverstein for New Children’s Book
A new children’s book, My Little Girl, penned by Tim McGraw and singer-songwriter Tom Douglas will hit bookshelves in October, with a forward foreword from Faith Hill.
Hal Bogerd gushes over Peter Cooper’s newest album, Mission Door, claiming “if the year keeps going like this my 2008 top ten list is going to get pretty crowded.”
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Rare Bob Wills Hotel Recording Discovered
A previously unreleased and unknown recording of Bob Wills has been discovered and is available for purchase on bobwills.com.
“The recording is of Bob Wills telling his life story, in his own words, of how his career developed. It’s about half an hour long and it is certainly Bob Wills’s voice, answering questions asked by [...]Continue reading "Rare Bob Wills Hotel Recording Discovered"
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Richardson Autopsy Answers Lingering Questions About “The Day the Music Died”
I “discovered” country music through the early rockabilly of Buddy Holly and his contemporaries, and I retain a strong interest Buddy’s career and the events surrounding his untimely death. There have been several interesting news stories about the infamous “Winter Dance Party” tour in the past several months, but the most significant involves an underappreciated [...]
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