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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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Hospitalized Porter Wagoner Needs Your Prayers
Porter Wagoner was admitted to a Nashville hospital on Monday and is currently in serious condition and asking for prayers.
What won’t MTV owned CMT do for ratings? Talk about denigrating the country genre.
This Is Texas Music has the lowdown on a new book from UT Press that’s due this fall, Women in Texas Music: […]Continue reading "Hospitalized Porter Wagoner Needs Your Prayers"
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Kevin Fowler Is Happy With Where He Is In His Career
Lost Highway Records has put together a page of videos to introduce people to Ryan Bingham and his band. Other videos show some behind the scenes stuff about how the upcoming album Mescalito was made, and depict what life is like on the road for the guys.
In a Q&A with LoneStarMusic Kevin Fowler says he […]Continue reading "Kevin Fowler Is Happy With Where He Is In His Career"
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The Grand Ole Opry Invites Shooter Jennings To Make His Debut
Bobby Bare talks about going back to Ohio and talking to people whose aunts and uncles he went to school with, but they’ve all died. He says it’s the sad part about the business he’s in.
“All of my friends abused themselves too terribly. But then there’s Shel. He was never heavy into drugs and drinking. […]Continue reading "The Grand Ole Opry Invites Shooter Jennings To Make His Debut"
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Jack Ingram Caged By Brad Paisley
This past Monday night I was fortunate enough to catch a Gary Allan show at Nutty Brown Cafe. His stage props appeared more death metal than country, but he was in fine form as he covered most of his newer songs — only traveling past Smoke Rings In The Dark for a handful of songs. […]
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Dolly Parton Has A New Label, Dolly Records
In Ken Barne’s USA Today blog he crowns “Online” from Brad Paisley as his pick of the week, but also gives a shout out to Adam Hood and Jon Christopher Davis for “Never Comes Easy” and “The Bottom Line”.
Dolly Parton plans to launch her own record label with the release of an album next February. […]Continue reading "Dolly Parton Has A New Label, Dolly Records"
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ACM Award Winners And Shooter Jennings Is Expecting Baby With Girlfriend
The big buzz around all the news sites this morning pertaining to country music is the ACM Awards show last night. In case you missed it, check out our live blog for a recount of the events as they happened. Overall I felt like it was a pretty successful show. They highlighted mostly good artists […]
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