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Sugarland Scores No. 1 With Hit Single “Stay”
Sugarland’s “Stay” hit No. 1 on Billboard the Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart.
Owen Temple started out playing the Texas music scene with Cory Morrow and Pat Green, but temporarily shelved that part of his career when he moved to Wisconsin to study psychology at graduate school. Now he’s back in Texas and on the verge of releasing [...]Continue reading "Sugarland Scores No. 1 With Hit Single “Stay”"
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Aces Beat Kings: Charley Pride Bests Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan got his butt whipped by Charley Pride at a charity poker event in Las Vegas last week.
“I made the final table with Charley. He and I were the chip leaders. There were about four people left, and I got dealt a pair of kings - the money hand. I bet BIG and Charley [...]Continue reading "Aces Beat Kings: Charley Pride Bests Luke Bryan"
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Taylor Swift To Record A Duet, Goes Double-Platinum, And Almost 18
Sugar Hill Records is offering a few Christmas songs from their ‘93 release, Sugar Plums, for download on their MySpace page. If you haven’t registered yet, check out our Christmas playlist and register to win a Christmas album.
A new site, called Ceehive, for people to run creative contests is running a contest to give away [...]Continue reading "Taylor Swift To Record A Duet, Goes Double-Platinum, And Almost 18"
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The 2007 CMA Awards Aftermath: Country Music Hijacked
There’s only one country album on Stylus Magazine’s List of the 50 Best Albums of 2007, and it’s Miranda Lambert’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, coming in at number two.
Yallwire posted the second part to their video interview with Billy Joe Shaver. This time around he sings “Get Thee Behind Me Satan” and gives some insight into [...]Continue reading "The 2007 CMA Awards Aftermath: Country Music Hijacked"
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Emery, Gill and Tillis Bestowed With Hall Of Fame Honors
Wanting to work where no one would bother them, Gary Allan and songwriters Jim Lauderdale and Odie Blackman visited the jungles of Costa Rica for a week.
Peter Cooper has a synopsis of the Country Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Ralph Emery, Vince Gill, and Mel Tillis.
Asked is he still considers himself a [...]Continue reading "Emery, Gill and Tillis Bestowed With Hall Of Fame Honors"
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Jim’s Big State Wrap-up: Saturday
The beer is always free when you can’t drink it.
Lucky enough to be on the VIP list for last weekend’s Big State Festival, I was taunted by the endless supply of free golden-bubbly goodness available in the festival’s private lounges. Let me reiterate: Free. Beer.
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The Start of Something Big: Big State Festival Day One
Only a few short hours removed, via sleep, from the end of the first day of Big State Festival, and only a couple hours until the second day begins, we find ourselves beat and wore down, but eagerly anticipating another day of great music and fast cars. The blisters, cherry red sunburn, and general [...]
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Luke Bryan - “We Rode in Trucks”
Let’s start with the obvious. This theme has been absolutely done to death in recent years, such that even genuinely good nostaligic songs sound tired and boring. Despite this context, Luke Bryan’s latest release is the finest example of a nostalgic song that I’ve heard since Alan Jackson’s “Remember When.”
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Billboard Talks About Expanding To Nashville
Luke Bryan, whom I have never heard of, has penned songs for Billy Currington and Travis Tritt, and now for himself.
“I knew that becoming a songwriter was important in the process of becoming an artist,” Bryan explains. “I believe it is really how you get grounded in the music business. But most of all, I [...]Continue reading "Billboard Talks About Expanding To Nashville"
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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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