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In a Former Life, Reba McEntire Was a Man
I an interview with Alan W. Petrucelli, Reba McEntire reveals that she believes in reincarnation and that she used to be a man:
“I believe in reincarnation,” she confesses. ” I believe I’ve gone both ways — that I have been here before as a man. I will get flak from Christians who will say I [...]Continue reading "In a Former Life, Reba McEntire Was a Man"
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Kenny Chesney Plans to Expand Personal Brand With A Line of Rum
Chicago-based Constellation Spirits is expected to announce today that they’re developing a premium rum in partnership with Kenny Chesney, which will be out in the first quarter of 2010. The name is yet to be determined, but a spokesman for Constellation said it will not bear Chesney’s name. However, stage banners at his concerts would [...]
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Marty Stuart Bringing Traditional Country Music Back to TV
The RFD-TV cable network channel plans to start broadcasting The Marty Stuart Show on Sunday nights starting in November and Grand Ole Opry announcer Eddie Stubbs will be his sidekick.
“This show is about authenticity, from the artists who visit us in the studio every week to the people watching at home,” said Stuart, a sideman [...]Continue reading "Marty Stuart Bringing Traditional Country Music Back to TV"
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Music Spanned Generations at 2008 CMA Music Festival
Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood rolled through the hits at LP Field in Nashville on Friday night. Craig Shelburne has the highlights. Whitney Self tackled Saturday’s events, where Kenny Rogers closed the evening with some of his hits.
Marc Hirsh says Jason Aldean performed an opening set for Tim McGraw’s recent concert at the Comcast Center [...]Continue reading "Music Spanned Generations at 2008 CMA Music Festival"
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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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In the Land of Radio, Country Music is King
When it comes to radio, country music stations rule the roost, but that could be changing. News/talk stations are up by nearly 500 in the past ten years, whereas country stations have lost about 450 in that same time period. As of October this year there were 2,054 country stations and 2,026 news/talk stations.
Toby Keith [...]Continue reading "In the Land of Radio, Country Music is King"
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Miranda Lambert Introduces Her Own Private Label Wine
Hallmark Gold Crown scored an exclusive Valentine album release from Reba McEntire. The singer said she’d love to do it, but didn’t have many love songs in her catalog. No problem though, she recorded four new songs exclusively for the release which will be available in January and February.
Miranda Lambert has started her own brand [...]Continue reading "Miranda Lambert Introduces Her Own Private Label Wine"
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Gretchen Wilson Cited For Disturbance During Recent Flight
After reportedly becoming “verbally abusive” onboard a recent flight, Gretchen Wilson was stripped of her alcohol privileges and cited for a disturbance. The trouble apparently came about when the stewards asked her to keep her pet dog in its carrier case. How dare they.
A special edition of the forthcoming Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits will [...]Continue reading "Gretchen Wilson Cited For Disturbance During Recent Flight"
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Grand Ole Opry Finds New Home With XM Satellite Radio
Houston Press ranks the 10 worst songs to ever come out of Houston. Both Kenny Rogers and Clint Black make the list for “You Decorated My Life” and “I Raq and Roll” (which sounds horrible from the title alone). Both artists also make The Houston 100, a list of Houston’s top songs ever. The list [...]
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Billy Joe Shaver Rivals For The Title Of Greatest Country Music Pistolero
James Kelly brought up the issue of “young vs. old” and “new vs. traditional” at the Opry in a piece titled “Are Country Legends too Old to Cut the Mustard?” He cites artists like Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson who have taken creative chances to create a resurgence in their careers while other like Stonewall [...]
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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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