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The Year in Review: Awards, Awards, Awards
I’m excited to comment on this year’s industry awards because it gives me another opportunity to remind our readers that I skunked the rest of the staff in our predictions for both the ACM Awards and CMA Awards. I’ll have at least a few months to revel in the glory, but I imagine that everyone [...]
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Miranda Lambert Introduces Her Own Private Label Wine
Hallmark Gold Crown scored an exclusive Valentine album release from Reba McEntire. The singer said she’d love to do it, but didn’t have many love songs in her catalog. No problem though, she recorded four new songs exclusively for the release which will be available in January and February.
Miranda Lambert has started her own brand [...]Continue reading "Miranda Lambert Introduces Her Own Private Label Wine"
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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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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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Three Country Debuts Top Billboard 200
Tune into WSM tonight between 7 pm and 12 am for a five hour remembrance of Porter Wagoner hosted by Grand Ole Opry announcer Eddie Stubbs and featuring interviews with many of Porter’s closest friends.
Merle Haggard, George Jones, Jack White, and Dwight Yoakam chime in on the loss of Porter Wagoner.
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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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Garth Brooks Expands Schedule to Include Nine Shows
In an effort to milk as much as possible from Taylor Swift’s debut an expanded “limited deluxe” edition is being offered that will include three new tracks, including Swift’s first phone call with Tim McGraw, and a DVD. The new edition will be made available on Nov. 6.
It seems Merle Haggard talks more politics then [...]Continue reading "Garth Brooks Expands Schedule to Include Nine Shows"
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September ‘07 Album Review Wrap-Up
Due to time constraints we don’t get to give a proper review to every album we would like to, so we decided to begin a weekly monthly wrap-up of the albums we’ve had a chance to listen to along with our brief opinion and a rating. We’re kicking off this feature with a list of [...]
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Professional Bull Rider Justin McBride Ventures Into Country Music
Only six days left until we announce the winners for the Big State Festival contest, so if you haven’t entered yet head over to the contest page and leave us a comment. While you’re at it, check out some of the contests on the Big State Festival website. I particularly like the one titled “The [...]
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Help Lonestar Beer Pick A New Unofficial “National Anthem of Texas”
Out of all the songs he’s written, the music he’s made, and the few movies he’s performed in Lyle Lovett says his greatest joy and accomplishment is rescuing the land that his family sold to developers in the ’80s.
Two police officers have been fired and may spend up to a year in jail after they [...]Continue reading "Help Lonestar Beer Pick A New Unofficial “National Anthem of Texas”"
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We've labored long and hard to come up with our list of the Top 10 Country Albums of 2008. Click here to see who claimed the honor of the year's top album, as chosen by The 9513's staff and writers.
Don’t confuse disappointing with worst, as that list would most likely be dominated by obscure indie knockoff bands along with a couple of mainstream releases. There has to be a modicum of expectation that’s dashed upon the release of an album for it to qualify for the year’s most disappointing.
Join host Kelly Dearmore as he shines the light on several noteworthy album releases you might have missed and interviews various artists, from Sarah Borges to Trent Willmon and Reckless Kelly to Wade Bowen, in the first two episode of The 9513 podcast.
Jim Malec counts down the top 20 country music news stories of 2008. How many times do you think John Rich will be mentioned?Current Discussion
- Vicki: I heard George on my first visit to the Opry. That was a magical visit for I got to ...
- running kind: Hi, just to let you know, my 6 collegues in office vote for you each day, although they don't know ...
- Hollerin' Ben: I didn't actually contribute to this list, but I don't think it's disappointing at all. I think it's a ...
- Brady Vercher: I disagree with the assessment that the list is disappointing. Only 30 or so of my top 75 made the ...
- Matt C.: I do have to say that this is a disappointing list. The exclusion of songs that made last year's list ...
- Drew: I'm not familiar with much of his stuff, but if his lyrics are consistently as strong as the ones you ...
- Adriana: I Love this song! Me and my friends went to a road trip to Alabama and the song was so ...
- Brady Vercher: At least we know we've got the lion and the tin man ready to go if anyone ever decided to ...
- Wilburscott: I got to see George 3-4 years ago at a show here in northern Michigan. I think around the time ...
- Rick: Rick's Random Tidbits Part 2: Miss Loretta Lynn will be performing on both the Friday and Saturday Night Grand Ole ...
