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The Start of Something Big: Big State Festival Day One
Only a few short hours removed, via sleep, from the end of the first day of Big State Festival, and only a couple hours until the second day begins, we find ourselves beat and wore down, but eagerly anticipating another day of great music and fast cars. The blisters, cherry red sunburn, and general [...]
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Lonestar Names Their New Fearless Leader…I Mean Lead Singer
In his Nickel Creek concert review Chuck Hinton says “Assuming they avoid the many pitfalls of young stardom, the sky is the limit for these fledgling troubadours.”
Has anyone come across Digital Rodeo yet? I just came across it and haven’t had a chance to properly explore, but it looks like a nicely designed social [...]Continue reading "Lonestar Names Their New Fearless Leader…I Mean Lead Singer"
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Toby Keith Tops The Charts With Big Dog Daddy
The Academy of Country Music honored Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, Buck Owens, Harlan Howard, and music executive Jack Lameier yesterday at Marty Stuart’s “Sparkle and Twang: Marty Stuart’s American Musical Odyssey” exhibit. About 250 people were present for the event, including Tracy Lawrence and Hal Ketchum.
The recently released Big Dog Daddy album from [...]Continue reading "Toby Keith Tops The Charts With Big Dog Daddy"
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Country Singers To Be Honored On Walk Of Fame, Reba Misses Her Sitcom, And Class Begins Tomorrow For GJU
Country singers Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Wynonna Judd, and three other inductees will be honored on the The Music City Walk of Fame on April 22nd in downtown Nashville.
Finalists for the MerleFest 2007 songwriting contest have been announced. The titles of the songs from the country category include: “Operation: Get Back Home” (I wonder what [...] -
Later Buck Owens Work Released And Drew Kennedy Taking Red Dirt Scene To The Next Rung
More news on the Opry discrimination accusations from Stonewall Jackson. This time Charlie Louvin expresses some of his sentiments on the deal and the general feeling you get is that he feels slighted as well. He lost health insurance coverage for his wife after they scaled his performances back to about 15 a year.
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Superb Charlie Louvin Article, Jason Aldean Nabs Platinum Status, And Patty Griffin’s Vivid Vignettes
This month Little Dog Records is featuring Scott Joss’s album, A New Reason to Care. He’s certainly got the credentials:
Scott Joss has earned his place as one of the brightest talents guiding country music towards a Renaissance of musical values. Emerging from a promising apprenticeship as California State Men’s Fiddle Champion (three consecutive years), protege [...] -
Train Songs, Rock And Roll Definitive 200, And Tillis Exhibit Honors Singers
Cricket has a nice list of train songs going on over at Hardcore Troubadours. Check it out, you might find some you haven’t heard before.
Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and browse through what they consider the Definitive 200 albums of the rock era (a few country albums make the list). Afterwards drop [...]Continue reading "Train Songs, Rock And Roll Definitive 200, And Tillis Exhibit Honors Singers"
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Brad Paisley Has A New Baby Boy And Diamond Rio Is Feeling More Creative
The Akron Beacon Journal has an article about the resurgence of Trace Adkins’ career, and like most articles about Adkins these days the subject of the song “Badonkadonk” is covered. Adkins also talks about how he was labeled a neotraditionalist who was going to to bring the honky tonk back to country, he says:
“I spoke [...]Continue reading "Brad Paisley Has A New Baby Boy And Diamond Rio Is Feeling More Creative"
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Jackson, Strait, And Buffet To Release Live Album And Unpolished Performance Adds To Lambert’s Appeal
Alan Jackson, George Strait, and Jimmy Buffet are slated to release a live album from an event they performed together back in 2004. The album will contain the first recording of “Seven Bridges Road” from Jackson.
UPDATE: Billboard has more information the album, including a list of the songs from each artist that will appear on [...]
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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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