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Settlement Will Allow Country Music Hall of Fame to Keep Historic Instruments
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will be required to pay $750,000 to keep historic instruments from Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash and Mother Maybelle Carter. The instruments were donated by Bob McLean, who committed suicide after being accused of defrauding investors. The settlement will go to McLean’s bankruptcy estate to help pay back [...]
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Bust Out The Vinyl and Sleeveface Your Favorite Artists
Sleeveface.com is a website gaining in popularity, and deservedly so as the illusions created can be quite entertaining. The term sleeveface is defined as “one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.” Basically a person holds a sleeve of a vinyl disc featuring [...]
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- Mike K: Thanks for the great list, Juli. My addition would be John Prine singing "Please Don't Bury Me."
- Dave D.: Nice list. You could add one more for the Carter Family (and Robbie Fulks) with "Away out on the Old ...
- Paul W Dennis: Actually I think #1 should be "Bury Me In An Indian Burial Ground" by Marvin Rainwater, a native American country ...
- Dave W.: And let's not forget - Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox When I Die - Joe Diffie.
- Jon: Another term her fans might want to become familar with: Fanwanking. Waiting for Steve M. to ask why fans would take that ...
- Thomas: ...we had little plastic guitars, turned-over pots und a couple of flutes. we were around nine years old and sounded....better ...
- Stormy: Another term her fans might want to become familar with: Fanwanking.
- Stormy: Did y'all even read the review of Toby Keith's "Every Dog Has His Day?"
- lucy: Leeann, I'm sorry.. but your choice of big words pose no meaning. It makes absolutely no sense, I'm sorry.
- Leeann Ward: I know better than to weigh in on this mud slinging affair, but... I think Paul is right though. The comparisons ...
