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“They’re just songs. It’s not brain surgery.” - Guy Clark
Mark Adams has an in depth review of To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth. Throughout most of the article Adams refers to the author as Knuth, if you can get passed that it sounds like the book is an interesting read.
Knuth clearly has good material [...]Continue reading "“They’re just songs. It’s not brain surgery.” - Guy Clark"
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Big Kenny Donates To Charity To Celebrate His First No. 1
Mario Tarradell has an article about Shanachie Records, the record label who signed Daryle Singletary, David Ball, and Confederate Railroad to record albums of old classics.
Why the sudden interest in country?
“We think there is a void in country music,” says Randall Grass, Shanachie’s general manager. “Country has become very pop-oriented and very youth-oriented in the [...]Continue reading "Big Kenny Donates To Charity To Celebrate His First No. 1"
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Charlie Robison And Kevin Fowler Return From Iraq And Indie Labels Are Changing The Game
Tim McIntire directed me towards a superb article about the rise of indie labels in Nashville and how they’re changing the game.
Light feet, more frugal approaches to recording, solid distribution channels, and the proliferation of Web-based marketing have all dovetailed nicely for the new Nashville indies. All of which translates to a faster return for [...] -
The Home Of The Late Johnny Cash Engulfed In Flames
The big news that everyone was covering yesterday is the burning of the late Johnny Cash’s home. Tommy Cash says it’s the only house that Johnny and June lived in while they were married.
When Cash moved there, the road was a quiet country lane that skirted Old Hickory Lake. Kris Kristofferson, then an aspiring songwriter, [...]Continue reading "The Home Of The Late Johnny Cash Engulfed In Flames"
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Strait’s Songs Becoming Caricature And Jason Aldean Films Johnny Cash Video
There are some country executives in Nashville who aren’t happy with the way the Grammys unfolded. They feel snubbed since Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts couldn’t perform their own songs and say that this isn’t the only year that country music has been discriminated against, but years past as well, and all the pent up [...]
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Brody’s Picks: Best Albums of 2006
I didn’t choose these albums based on guitar riffs or dissection of the lyrics, rythmn, and rhyme, because personally, I don’t know anything about all that stuff. I’m of the philosophy “it’s just good music, if you can feel it in your soul,” and that’s how I chose these albums as my personal favorites of [...]
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The Essential Guy Clark Read
The first time I heard a Guy Clark song, I was waiting on a friend to get his order at Starbucks. I popped on the headphones at one of those music kiosks and began browsing the artists. After a few minutes I stumbled upon The Essential Guy Clark and thought to myself “Huh, how can [...]
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Thursday Morning News Roundup: Thanksgiving Edition
The pop singer turned country, Michelle Branch, is selling her Los Angeles home to move to Nashville. Branch is one of the members of the new band The Wreckers. Her home is listed at $3.3 million. Imagine the things The 9513 could do with that kind of money.
I don’t know very much about Jake Owen, [...]
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November 21: Notable New Releases
There will be a few new releases tomorrow worth noting. Aside from the albums below there will be numerous albums with previously released songs from the likes of Johnny Paycheck, Roger Miller, a Kenny Rogers box set, and another Garth Brooks Limited Edition box set. Also, be sure to check out Willie Nelson’s new song, [...]
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In an attempt to discover and highlight the best music every month, We'll be publishing a list of the best songs released throughout that period. Here's Brady Vercher's picks for October.
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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