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All-Star Waylon Jennings Tribute In the Works; Moe Bandy Remixed; Stealing Angels’ Historically-Rich Pedigree
Dierks Bentley will sing “Lonesome, Or’nry and Mean” on a new Waylon Jennings tribute album that also includes Trace Adkins, Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin, Waylon’s son Shooter Jennings, and more.
Elizabeth Cook covers various topics in her latest MySpace blog post, including news about her next album, opening for Dwight Yoakam, and stumbling on an old [...] -
Great Country Songs from the 1970s, Pt. 1
This is meant neither to be a comprehensive list of great country songs from the 1970s, nor any sort of ranking of records; It’s just a list of some songs that I liked and remember. See if you recall any of these records
“Cowboy Convention” – Buddy Alan
A silly record with some great [...]Continue reading "Great Country Songs from the 1970s, Pt. 1"
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Miranda Lambert’s New Album Is Slated For September
Miranda Lambert told Billboard’s Gary Graff that she’s worked on about four songs for her new album, which is scheduled for a September release. She’s mixing some of her own songs and including submissions from other writers.
“What’s fun is the more success you have, the better the songs are that you’re pitched,” she notes. “The [...]Continue reading "Miranda Lambert’s New Album Is Slated For September"
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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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Carrie Underwood Wins Big, Chesney Too, and Other News
Hats off to Carrie Underwood for winning FIVE Billboard Music awards last night! Carrie took home Female Country Artist of the Year, New Country Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Country Album of the Year, and Female Billboard 200 Album Artist of the Year.
Kenny Chesney won two awards, Country Songs Artist of the [...]Continue reading "Carrie Underwood Wins Big, Chesney Too, and Other News"
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- Steve M.: That reminds me I haven't seen Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan lately.
- TexasVet: Much better "Undo It" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymORaEZtvo Like it or not, this song will become quite the earworm...listen once and it will stuck ...
- Steve M.: Oh boy! That is some great rock and roll there.
- Paul W Dennis: Decent effort - Kelly's songs always seem to add up to more than the sum of the parts, which suggests ...
- TexasVet: I don’t know, but the Crickets refuse not to fade away. These crickets never will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt02zuoxGj4
- Steve M.: I don't know, but the Crickets refuse not to fade away.
- abuckycovingtonfan4-ever patricia: Thank you so much for the interview you did with our man bucky what can i say he is an ...
- merlefan49: Is one of the crickets a brown eyed handsome man :D
- ALJID: LOL...I though they were insects. Buwahahahahaha...Anyway the meaning is still a give away. If you don't understand the message then ...
- ALJID: "Undo what, exactly? I am sorry, but the 30 minutes of crickets chirping one of my favorite singers recorded tells ...
