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John Rich Will Debut Rally Anthem For Presidential Candidate Today
John Rich plans to unveil a new song today at the Country First concert in Panama City, Fla. Titled “Rasing McCain,” the song is an anthem for the presidential candidate John McCain. Rich wants it to be a rally song that captures McCain’s maverick spirit and he has it available at no charge on his [...]
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Album Review: Ray Scott – Crazy Like Me
Mainstream country music is relatively bereft of traditional voices, and while that itself is unfortunate, the greater tragedy may be that the paucity of traditional artists relaxes the selective pressure on existent traditionalists. The result is a generation of artists who may look and sound traditional but don’t make music of the near same quality [...]
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Ray Scott Finds Creative Freedom In Life After Warner Bros.
Ray Scott thought he had done pretty well for Warner Bros. After all, the husky-voiced baritone from Semora, North Carolina, managed to sell over 100,000 copies of his 2005 debut album, My Kind Of Music, despite the fact that his music received virtually zero airplay from country radio.
Sure, the record wasn’t a grand slam, [...]Continue reading "Ray Scott Finds Creative Freedom In Life After Warner Bros."
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Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold Passed Away This Morning
Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold passed away early this morning at age 89.
Before Garth Brooks came along, Arnold was easily country music’s biggest record-seller. Sales of his discs from the mid-1940s to the present, in every recorded medium from 78s to CDs, have topped 80 million. Along the way, Arnold became a key [...]Continue reading "Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold Passed Away This Morning"
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Lawsuit Filed Against “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” Singer
Here’s an eBay auction for our readers with a big heart and some dough to spare. SIR Nashville is auctioning off a guitar autographed by twenty three famous musicians; a few of them are country (Dolly Parton, Wynonna, Randy Owen, Alison Krauss, Deanna Carter, Big & Rich). All of the proceeds will benefit St. Jude [...]
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