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Kevin Fowler – “Best Mistake I Ever Made”
This single is currently #1 on the Texas Music Chart
Why, Kevin Fowler? Why did you write and sing this song?
Why, Texas Radio? Why did you spin this song 1,131 times last week, thus forcing me to review it?
Why, Red Dirt Music fans? Why have you established yourselves as an [...]Continue reading "Kevin Fowler – “Best Mistake I Ever Made”"
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Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Taking Shape
The 16th annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival is scheduled to take place April 1-5 in nine different Nashville area venues. Josh Turner, Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell are among the country singers already announced from the 350-plus songwriters on the lineup.
As a young man Joe Ely accidentally got into the circus business and as [...]Continue reading "Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Taking Shape"
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Tim McGraw And Friday Night Lights Team Up Again
Tim McGraw is scheduled to play an intimate performance for the attendees of Beyond the Lights Celebrity Golf Classic the day that SXSW kicks off. Proceeds from the inaugural tournament, hosted by actors Kyle Chandler and Brad Leland of my favorite TV show Friday Night Lights, will benefit the Gridiron Heroes Spinal Cord Injury Foundation [...]
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Country Music Sales Down Twenty-Six Percent
Industry Blog Coolfer reports that total album sales have been bleak this year, dropping 14% year-to-date over 2006. Country albums sales are down a whopping 26%.
Former mullet-man Billy Ray Cyrus has been cast to star in an indie drama titled Flying By. He’ll play “a businessman who risks his marriage, family, and fortune to [...]Continue reading "Country Music Sales Down Twenty-Six Percent"
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Jim’s Big State Wrap-up: Sunday
Concluding our post-event coverage of the 2007 Big State Country Music Festival, here is the second half of my weekend wrap-up.
Sunday:
Colin Gilmore, 11:15.
The son of Texas icon Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Colin played to a small but very enthusiastic crowd at the BMI stage. Admittedly, I only had chance to stick around for about [...] -
And The Bands Played On: Big State Festival Day Two
Kelly Willis and The Wrights were on the brink of starting their 12:30 sets when we arrived at the festival grounds on Sunday. Writing the Saturday wrap-up kept us from showing up earlier to watch Colin Gilmore and Ashley Ray. Our famished stomachs led us straight to the nearest food while we half-heartedly listened to [...]
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“Your Confederate-Flag Boxers Were Hanging On My Grammy”
Musician, novelist, and former Texas gubernatorial hopeful Kinky Friedman talked to Nashville Scene about…politics. Who’d a thunk it? Along with Billy Joe Shaver these two guys could crank out some pretty lofty books of quotes.
Rolling Stones‘ Top 15 cheating songs as chosen by their readers.
Toby Keith scored his 23rd number 1 on the country singles [...]Continue reading "“Your Confederate-Flag Boxers Were Hanging On My Grammy”"
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September ‘07 Album Review Wrap-Up
Due to time constraints we don’t get to give a proper review to every album we would like to, so we decided to begin a weekly monthly wrap-up of the albums we’ve had a chance to listen to along with our brief opinion and a rating. We’re kicking off this feature with a list of [...]
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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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Kevin Fowler Is Happy With Where He Is In His Career
Lost Highway Records has put together a page of videos to introduce people to Ryan Bingham and his band. Other videos show some behind the scenes stuff about how the upcoming album Mescalito was made, and depict what life is like on the road for the guys.
In a Q&A with LoneStarMusic Kevin Fowler says he [...]Continue reading "Kevin Fowler Is Happy With Where He Is In His Career"
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