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Sammy Kershaw’s Political Bid Fizzled By Incumbent
Porter Wagoner remains in a Nashville-area hospital and has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
With four kids at home Kelly Willis put her musical career on the back burner. She didn’t feel like she had time to write until an interviewer reminded her that she could do other people’s songs. One thing led to another [...]Continue reading "Sammy Kershaw’s Political Bid Fizzled By Incumbent"
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Nashville Earning Less Than Stellar Reviews After First Show
The Chicago Tribune doesn’t have anything good to say about Fox’s new reality show, Nashville, which premiered on Friday night:
The show, which follows the career of aspiring singers on the Nashville music scene, seems suspiciously timed to promote the career of one of the guys on the show, a good-looking country crooner named Chuck Wicks.
An [...]Continue reading "Nashville Earning Less Than Stellar Reviews After First Show"
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Country Singer Sammy Kershaw Throws His Hat Into Political Race
The next lieutenant governor of Louisiana just might be country singer Sammy Kershaw. He officially entered the race yesterday as the Republican candidate.
Faith Hill appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday and talked about The Incident. You know, the one where a fan groped Tim McGraw and she chastised the fan from the stage.
“I [...]Continue reading "Country Singer Sammy Kershaw Throws His Hat Into Political Race"
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“They’re just songs. It’s not brain surgery.” – Guy Clark
Mark Adams has an in depth review of To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth. Throughout most of the article Adams refers to the author as Knuth, if you can get passed that it sounds like the book is an interesting read.
Knuth clearly has good material [...]Continue reading "“They’re just songs. It’s not brain surgery.” – Guy Clark"
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Today Marks The Debut Of Johnny Cash Dot Com Radio
The CMA Music Festival set a record for attendance. Climbing steadily each year, it peaked at 191,154 people this year.
Country Standard Time has a track listing for the Billy Joe Shaver gospel album, Everybody’s Brother, due out on August 7th. Can’t wait.
Kellie Pickler talks to People magazine about her hockey flame, Tootoo. The two met [...]Continue reading "Today Marks The Debut Of Johnny Cash Dot Com Radio"
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Merle Haggard Going Bluegrass And Alan Jackson Teams Up With Brooks & Dunn
Can you think of a bigger badass than Kris Kristofferson? Yea, me neither. He’s had an accomplished career as a songwriter, singer, and actor. He is a Rhodes scholar and could have had a promising career in the military had he not turned it down for doing something he’s passionate about. Star-Telegram.com has an article [...]
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Carrie Underwood Has A New Video And Alan Jackson Starts Work On His
Watch Carrie Underwood’s newest video, Wasted, on YouTube. On another note, Carrie’s PR department must be on steroids, it seems like every day there’s a crop of new articles and stories about her.
It’s sad that Sammy Kershaw had to file for bankruptcy after having so much success in the ’90s. I guess the Nashville machine [...]Continue reading "Carrie Underwood Has A New Video And Alan Jackson Starts Work On His"
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Thursday News Roundup
Despite the bad luck George Jones has endured this past year (pneumonia and a fractured wrist), he has set a full tour schedule for 2007. His October release God’s Country, includes an all-star line up performing many of George’s classic numbers. Performers on this album are: George Jones himself, Garth Brooks, Sammy Kershaw, Pam Tillis, [...]
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