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Trace Adkins Wants Him Some Real Joy; Nashville Paves Way For Patsy Cline Boulevard; ‘Ain’t No Grave’ for Johnny Cash
Yesterday afternoon Toby Keith announced Trace Adkins as the first artist signed to Show Dog-Universal Music. All it took to lure the big man from Capitol Records, his home for 15 years, was a smile:
Adkins said he watched Keith on stage when the two toured together last year and saw something he “longed for.”
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Friday Five: Pop Covers
Several The 9513 commenters have stated that much of today’s mainstream country music sounds like pop music from the 1970s and 80s. Today we’ll be looking at a handful of artists who’ve semi-recently covered pop hits of that era. Are these versions better or worse than the originals? That’s up to you.
5. “When Doves Cry” [...]
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Forgotten Artists: Lacy J. Dalton
With one of the more recognizable voices in the genre, Lacy J. Dalton blazed across the skies of country music during the 1980s, producing a number of memorable songs along the way. While not an overwhelming commercial success (only nine of her songs made the Billboard country Top 10) as an artist she impressed with [...]
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“The Voice” Remembered: A Tribute to Vern Gosdin
The ability to convey the depths of despair, the heights of jubilation and the serenity of an abiding faith are all that is required to be known as “The Voice.” Unfortunately, very few possess the ability to do all that and what’s more unfortunate, we lost one of those few–possibly the best of those [...]
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Forgotten Artists: Narvel Felts
Give Me The Beat Boys and Free My Soul
I Want To Get Lost In Your Country Song
And Drift Away
Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios in Memphis had quite a coterie of performers during the mid 1950s: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Harold Lloyd Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty), Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Carl Mann, Warren Smith, [...] -
Special Guests Ray Benson and Redd Volkaert Joined Brad Paisley For Austin Concert
Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker opened for Brad Paisley when he rolled through Austin last Thursday, but it was Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson that joined Paisley for a duet on “Miles And Miles of Texas” and Austin guitar legend Redd Volkaert who dueled with him during the encore performance of “Let The Good [...]
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Little Jimmy Dickens to Celebrate 60th Opry Anniversary With Signature Show
The Grand Ole Opry plans to honor Little Jimmy Dickens status as the longest standing member with a Signature Show celebrating his 60th Opry Anniversary on Nov. 1. Trace Adkins, George Jones, and Brad Paisley are among the artists that are scheduled to make appearances.
In an interview with Craig Shelburne, Kellie Pickler talks about turning [...]Continue reading "Little Jimmy Dickens to Celebrate 60th Opry Anniversary With Signature Show"
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Trace Adkins Acknowledges Reality Show Appeal of Living With Six Women
Despite Trace Adkins‘ stellar performance on Celebrity Apprentice, he’s not so sure he’d be up to having a reality show based on his personal life, although he does concede that living with six women would be the perfect premise for a show.
From Gary Allan’s website: With great sadness, we acknowledge the passing of Gary’s father, [...]Continue reading "Trace Adkins Acknowledges Reality Show Appeal of Living With Six Women"
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Eyes and Hands Declared Most Prominent Body Parts In Country Music
Based on a compilation of more than 10,000 songs, artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg put together a data visualization chart that lists the most common body parts (pictures included) referenced in music by genre. Eyes and hands are the most referenced parts in country music. They even compiled a rebus glossary of all the [...]
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Country Music Loses The Beat With the Passing of Buddy Harman
Buddy Harman, dubbed the father of modern country drumming by Eddie Stubbs, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 79 from congestive heart failure.
A native Nashvillian born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr., Mr. Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman,” Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,” Tammy [...]Continue reading "Country Music Loses The Beat With the Passing of Buddy Harman"
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- Music Lover: Finally, whatever we like or not, she'll stay quite a long time in music. All we can do is watch ...
- Music Lover: The vocal problem TS has is not about the fact that she was born with thin, flat vocal or her ...
- Joey: The reason why she sounds decent in studio is because it's auto-tuned. And her winning grammy for white horse? I ...
- Steve M.: I prefer live acts. But i again question how you can expect a long career if you can't sing live. ...
- Music Lover: I know, I also don't like TS winning Vocal awards except Grammy for White Horse. That deserve a debate. TS ...
- Steve M.: If you think 40 is old, then you are in for a shock later in life. Again, how is it ...
- Music Lover: You sound like an old stubborn man. Let's stop here. I've read your comments about Taylor and I know how ...
- Steve M.: How is it rude to point out she can't carry a tune live?
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