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Alabama HoF Honors Jamey Johnson; Drew Kennedy Bucks Trend, Releases Album On Thursday; Cash, Parton, & Jones Reissues
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame announced its latest class of inductees, but it’s hard to tell who is actually being inducted and who is simply receiving an award. Either way, Jamey Johnson will be honored with the Alabama’s Rising Star award and Mac McAnally will receive the Arthur Alexander Songwriter’s award.
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (2-28-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
Johnny Cash closes out February as the #1 artist for the week, with 30 listeners, a high-water mark for him for the year. Right behind him was Miranda Lambert with 29. After that, the list drops off considerably, as the artists tied for #3 were Gary Allan and Reba McEntire with 20 listeners [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (2-21-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
After a flirtation with some new albums, most of The 9513 group members went back to the old favorites this week. Miranda Lambert is #1 with 29 listeners, and Sugarland makes the big leap up to #2 with 27. That’s nine more listeners than last week. Lady Antebellum and Josh Turner, meanwhile, dropped [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (2-7-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
It didn’t take long for Miranda Lambert to reclaim her status as the #1 artist, with 28 listeners. Next came Carrie Underwood with 26, and Lady Antebellum with 24. So the whole Lady A surge lasted for all of a week around here. Gary Allan gets another week in the Top 10, with [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (1-31-10)
A couple notes: Because the Last.fm Top Albums chart is messed up (the same chart has repeated all month, and not even the new Lady Antebellum album showed up this week), I’ll be avoiding it until it’s fixed. Secondly, I’ve done a little tallying and have come up with the top artists of the month [...]
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Strait & McEntire Sell-Out Tulsa; Rabin Takes on Kitty Wells; Lady Antebellum and Patty Griffin Drop New Records
The dual-bill of George Strait and Reba McEntire sold out Tulsa’s 18,000 seat BOK Center in less than an hour.
In the latest edition of Nashville or Bust, Nathan Rabin explores the music and influence of Kitty Wells:
“Though Wells was rightly hailed as a pioneer who inspired multiple generations of female country singers, a deep, almost [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (1-10-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
Just when you thought we’d had pretty much all of the Johnny Cash material that was available, we were treated with the news that one more album is going to be released this year. He’s doing pretty good with posthumous releases, but he’s got a way to go before he’s in the Tupac [...] -
Trace Adkins Wants Him Some Real Joy; Nashville Paves Way For Patsy Cline Boulevard; ‘Ain’t No Grave’ for Johnny Cash
Yesterday afternoon Toby Keith announced Trace Adkins as the first artist signed to Show Dog-Universal Music. All it took to lure the big man from Capitol Records, his home for 15 years, was a smile:
Adkins said he watched Keith on stage when the two toured together last year and saw something he “longed for.”
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (1-10-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
Without any new music at the present, members of The 9513 group have gone back to their favorites, with Miranda Lambert and George Strait tied for #1 with 33 listeners each. While the rest of the Top 10 features some old favorites, artists like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift (25 listeners each) both [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (1-3-10)
Last.fm Top Artists
The members of the ever-growing The 9513 group (143 and counting) spent their New Year’s holiday by listening to a lot of the Man in Black, so we must be gearing up for a depressing 2010. Johnny Cash had 28 listeners to rank at #1, with Miranda Lambert (27 listeners) and Dixie Chicks [...]
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In each and every instance, the best country albums of the past ten years were built on the backs of songs -- stories about you and me from birth to death and stories that paint landscapes rooted in every region of America and beyond. These are the top country albums of the decade.Current Discussion
- Clint: Very good song. Great, distinctive approach. I've never seen anything like it. Makes me wish all over ...
- Rachel68005: Ken, great interview! However, I must admit I am laughing at the comment where Bucky says that "Hold A ...
- PaulaW: Great interview! Thanks Ken!
- Jon: @Steve M. I don't know why you think shifting the focus to some other person in some other discipline ...
- Cybrus: He should have released "Woke Up On My Own" instead. That's a good song! "Every dog has it's day"...ugh.
- Scooter: I noticed with any Gary Allan album that I bought over the years that the songs really grow on you. ...
- Ben Foster: NAME-CHECKING - Taylor Swift pulled it off with "Tim McGraw," but Tyler Dean's "Taylor Swift" is a flop. POINT ...
- Ben Foster: There are too many songs on the radio that scream "I'm so country," when the production sounds like anything but. ...
- Ben Foster: I agree. "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes" is bland, boring, soulless, and entirely forgettable. This is ...
- Steve M.: And I am sure that James Patterson believes every book he churns out should be a Pulitzer winner. If the ...
