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The Grascals Dream of Joining the Opry As They Approach Their 100th Appearance
The Grascals are royalty on the bluegrass scene, having won SPBGMA’s Bluegrass Band of the Year award in 2010, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award in 2005 and earning its Entertainer of the Year honor in both 2006 and 2007. Danny Roberts began playing guitar to back up his fiddling [...]
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Billy Ray Cyrus – “Some Gave All”
Songwriters: Billy Ray Cyrus and Cindy Cyrus No, you didn’t just fall through a crack in the space-time continuum. Technically, this reprise of one of country radio’s favorite patriotic recurrents is its first release as a single; when it charted back in 1992, it did so on unsolicited airplay. Now, the mullet king and occasional [...]
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Rhonda Vincent Announces New Album; Steel Guitarist Ben Keith Passed On; Worst Album Titles
Rhonda Vincent‘s new album Taken, her first since departing Rounder Records in Feb., will be released on Sept. 21. She talked in-depth about the album during a press conference at the recent HullabaLOU Music Festival. Jason Aldean is country…with an edge: “I grew up listening to George Strait, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty … I also [...]
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Darryl Worley – “Keep The Change”
After a string of seven singles that failed to break the Top 10, Darryl Worley goes back to the well of “common sense” populism he’s best-known for. With songs like “I Just Came Back From a War,” “If Something Should Happen” and “Have You Forgotten” among his most memorable touchstones, the subject matter of “Keep [...]
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Colt Ford’s Country
Imagine a record filled with steel guitar and fiddle, with songs eating cat-head biscuits, downing a few cold beers at a local bar, dealing with cheating spouses and discovering life beyond the small town. There are guest vocals from John Michael Montgomery and Jamey Johnson. On paper, it sounds like a country music album. However, [...]
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Zac Brown Band Has Year’s Top Country Dance Club Hit; Early Waylon Jennings Reissues
The Zac Brown Band topped the 2009 list of the top 10 country dance club hits with its song “Toes.” GAC has the rest of the top 10 plus lists for the previous five years. Craig Shelburne considers George Strait‘s second album, Strait From the Heart, one of his finest achievements and with songs like [...]
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Full List of The 9513′s 2009 Country Music Artist Interviews
Here’s full alphabetized (by first name) list of the interviews conducted by The 9513 in 2009. Amy Dalley Ashley Monroe Barbara Mandrell Big Kenny Billy Ray Cyrus Bryan White Caitlin & Will Charlie Daniels Charlie Louvin Collin Raye Corb Lund Darryl Worley David Lee Murphy David Nail Dolly Parton Eddie Montgomery Eric Church Gene Watson [...]
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What is Country Music? An Anthology of Artists’ Responses
In 2009, we asked a number of country artists for their answer to the question “What is country music?” Here is an anthology of their answers. What is country music? “Well, I’m a traditional country artist. I always have been and I always will be. I love it so much—I always have—that when you speak [...]
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Taylor Swift Dominates The American Music Awards…And The News Cycle
Taylor Swift swept last night’s American Music Awards, beating out Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Kings of Leon to claim the title of Artist of The Year. Swift also took home Favorite Pop/Rock Female, Favorite Country Female, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and Favorite Country Music Album. Taylor Swift, in a suit filed by performing [...]
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Sounds Like Life To Darryl Worley
Darryl Worley grew up in Pyburn, TN, the son of a Methodist preacher and a mother who was a featured singer in the church choir. Like the symbolic angel and devil sitting on Yosemite Sam’s shoulders, his youth was the tale of two sides. On the proper side of things, he earned a degree in [...]
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