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Writer’s Guild and Grammys Reach Interim Agreement
The Writer’s Guild of America came to an agreement with the producers of the Grammy telecast to allow writer’s to work on the show.
Martie McGuire of the Dixie Chicks is expecting her third daughter with husband Gareth. (Thanks Peter)
Production on a straight-to-DVD comedy starring Bill Engvall begins today. Engvall owns a small town bait shop [...]Continue reading "Writer’s Guild and Grammys Reach Interim Agreement"
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The Best Country Songs of 2007
First off, Happy New Year to everyone. To start the new year off, we’ve compiled a list of the best songs from 2007. The staff had a lengthy discussion about which songs should be available for nomination for such a list and we decided that a song had to be an original recording on an [...]
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Kenny Chesney Produced Willie Album Hits Shelves In January
Songs like Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”, Martina McBride’s “Independence Day”, and George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning” chartered considerably lower than other songs from these artists’ catalogs, but are sometimes considered signature songs; even over higher charting singles. With that in mind, Country Universe wants to know: What is the definition of a hit?
Sarah Borges, Lucinda Williams, [...]Continue reading "Kenny Chesney Produced Willie Album Hits Shelves In January"
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Charlie Daniels Invited To Join The Grand Ole Opry
Less than a month after officially inducting Josh Turner, the Grand Ole Opry surprised Charlie Daniels by extending an invitation to make him the newest member of the Opry family. While he was hosting his annual Christmas For Kids benefit at the Ryman Auditorium, Martina McBride walked on stage with a small gift box [...]
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Patty Loveless Gears Up For Her Third Trip On the Santa Train
Gary Allan has no balls, as illustrated by his latest album — Living Hard — and just so you know, Ronnie Dunn and John Anderson are merely average Nashville singers, too. I wish I was just making this stuff up, folks.
Tours featuring two mega-stars are in. First it was Kenny Chesney and LeAnn Rimes, then [...]Continue reading "Patty Loveless Gears Up For Her Third Trip On the Santa Train"
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Patty Griffin Scores Two Awards At AMAs
Merle Haggard’s latest album, The Bluegrass Sessions, “was produced by a bluegrass musician with bluegrass musicians, recorded at a bluegrass studio, released on a bluegrass label, racked under bluegrass in record stores, aired on bluegrass radio, covered by the bluegrass press, and it’s currently in it’s fourth consecutive week at # 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass [...]
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Merle Haggard Debuts At Number 1 On Bluegrass Charts
The Politico has a great “story behind the song” type feature about how “For These Times” was written and eventually ended up on Martina McBride’s latest album, Waking Up Laughing. Inspiration is everywhere.
It begins in Pittsburgh on election night 2006. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), losing to Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr. by a wide margin, [...]Continue reading "Merle Haggard Debuts At Number 1 On Bluegrass Charts"
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“Singer Nelson Begins Prison Term…”
Our readers seem to be just as excited as I am about Ashton Shepherd. Chet Flippo shares that enthuiasm and tells a pretty cool story:
She was “discovered” a few weeks ago at an Alabama fair at a Lorrie Morgan concert.
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Brooks & Dunn Describe New Album As “The Stones Meet The Cowboys”
A little over a month ago we posted about an incident Randy Kohrs and his crew had while filming their new video at an abandoned house. As they were leaving the police surrounded the property and Korhs had to plead their case. That video, for “Who’s Goin’ With Me?”, is now online.
Starting tomorrow if you [...]Continue reading "Brooks & Dunn Describe New Album As “The Stones Meet The Cowboys”"
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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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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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- Matt B.: "Boots On" or "Strange" are the likely second single.
- Guy: But how do short, average-looking guys like Aldean and Chesney end up being "sexy" somehow?
- Bobby: I think that Martina's full throttle approach has only worked on two songs: "A Broken Wing" and "Whatever You Say". ...
- Bobby: Rick: "Let Your Love Flow" was a #1 pop hit, #21 country, #2 AC.
- Jonnie Holmberg: Couldn't agree more on Trace Adkins!
- Rick: Didn't the Bellamy Brothers song do a lot better on the pop charts than # 21? I remember that song ...
- Guy: Hopefully, Jason Aldean's 15 minutes are about up. But look at Kenny Chesney. He deserved no more than 15 minutes and ...
- Craig R.: Jason Aldean is another one of the boys(Luke Bryan, Chuck Wicks, Rodney Atkins, Jake Owen)who is really selling an image ...
- J.R. Journey: I thought it was really cool how the incorporated Martina into that video, even adding applause when she came out ...
- Kelly: Knight's "Enough Rope" is really under-rated I think. It's rocking for sure, but its quieter tunes (enough rope, williams ...
