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Kristofferson Honored As BMI Icon; Live Video Stream of Underwood at Opry; Hough & Wicks Call It Quits
Kris Kristofferson was named a BMI Icon at last night’s BMI Country Awards and Bobby Pinson took home the award for songwriter of the year. Visit The Tennessean for a full list of winners.
In light of today’s holiday, revisit The 9513’s playlist “20 Top War and Soldier Songs.”
George Strait’s publicist confirmed that the singer will [...] -
Kenny Chesney In 3D; Chris Hillman Records Live Album; Catch Radney Foster’s “Angel Flight”
Sony Pictures plans to bring Kenny Chesney to the big screen next April in a limited-release concert film, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D.
Sugar Hill released a video from the release party for Sam Bush’s album Circles Around Me.
Brad Paisley on why he wears a hat:
It’s about the image, and it’s about the lifestyle and what [...] -
Garth Brooks Tickets Sold Out; Little Doug Sahm’s First Single; Country Music Displacing Rock n’ Roll
Sell Outs: The first 20 shows of Garth Brooks‘ gig at the Wynn Las Vegas resort sold out in less than five hours and four of Taylor Swift’s 2010 tour dates sold out in two minutes on Friday.
Next month marks 10 years since the passing of Doug Sahm. The folks at Texas Music Matters took [...] -
John Rich and Wife Expecting; Brad Paisley and CW Network Team Up; All-Time Favorites
John Rich and his wife are expecting their first baby.
Brad Paisley signed on to create and co-produce a new drama on the CW Network about “an aspiring young female singer destined for stardom and a male songwriter whose career isn’t as certain.”
The Austin Chronicle’s Jim Caligiuri reviewed recent albums from Guy Clark and Robert Earl [...] -
U.S. House of Representatives Honors Country Music; New Releases; Awards Results
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring country music for its contributions to America.
New releases for the week of October 20, 2009 include:
Bomshel – Fight Like a Girl
Amazon | iTunes | MySpaceFlatt & Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Banjo (Reissue)
Amazon | Collector’s Choice MusicGrasstowne – The Other Side of Towne
Amazon | iTunes | MySpaceJoe [...]
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The Little Nashville Opry Burned Down; Music Fog Films Americana Festival; Jerry Lee Lewis Download
The Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana burned down over the weekend.
In celebration of the fall return of “Opry Country Classics,” Opry.com asked a few country artists to name their favorite country classics. (via Country Music Tattle Tale)
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (9-13-09)
Welcome to all our new members, as our group has grown to 114 music fans. The more the merrier, especially when they result in some new faces populating our charts. Naturally, George Strait is the Top Artist of the week, as anything less than a Top 3 finish for King George might send the world [...]
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (8-2-09)
We’ve got to go all the way back to the very end of May to find a female artist at the top of The 9513 charts, and that was Jennifer Nettles as one-half of Sugarland. This week, we’ve got three of them at #1, courtesy of the Dixie Chicks. Unlike some of the artists who [...]
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Ricky Skaggs Goes Solo; Taylor Swift vs. Ernest Tubb; Caitlin & Will Debut New Video
Tanya Tucker recently released an album of covers that she credits her father for introducing to her and in October, Rosanne Cash will release a new album, The List, consisting of songs from a list that her father gave her. But before Cash’s album, there will be yet another album released credited to the [...]
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Staff Picks for June 2009
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Modern Sounds in Country… by Ray Charles
June was an excellent month for the entire country music spectrum. In addition to damn good albums from Charlie Robison, Sarah Jarosz, Holly Williams, and Levon Helm, Todd Snider and Brad Paisley also released worthy efforts. If classic country is your thing, June saw the release of George [...]
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Is Dave Haywood going solo? This and many other of country music's most pressing questions answered in the September edition of The 9513's world famous Mailbag!
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