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Keith Urban Ticket Scalping; SEASAC Music Awards; New Releases, Reissues, & Free Downloads
NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter Phil Williams published the results of a seven month investigation into ticket scalping for Keith Urban concerts and more specifically, the recent “We’re All For the Hall” benefit.
[...] our investigation discovered, this year Keith Urban struck a deal with Ticketmaster to, in essence, scalp tickets to his own shows.
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Great Country Songs From the 1970s, Pt. 3
Same admonition as before. Just some songs I liked, one song per artist.
“Silver Wings” – Jim & Jon Hager (1970)
Since Hag issued the song as a B side (“Workin’ Man Blues” was the A side) this version is the only charting version of Hag’s classic. The Hager Twins do a nice job with the [...]Continue reading "Great Country Songs From the 1970s, Pt. 3"
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Forgotten Artists: Jean Shepard
You gaze at that guitar on your knee
In a way that you never look at me
This love affair of yours has gone too far
And I’m tired of playing second fiddle to an old guitar
From “Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar),” Capitol Records, 1964Kitty Wells may have been the reigning Queen of Country Music during the [...]
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Sonny James, George Strait, and Harold Bradley Make The Hall And Brad Paisley Pranked
Sonny James, George Strait, and Harold Bradley were all inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last November, but the ceremony for their induction wasn’t held until this past Sunday night at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Heralded by Guitar Player as the most-recorded guitarist in the world, Bradley is the first [...]
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Richardson Autopsy Answers Lingering Questions About “The Day the Music Died”
I “discovered” country music through the early rockabilly of Buddy Holly and his contemporaries, and I retain a strong interest Buddy’s career and the events surrounding his untimely death. There have been several interesting news stories about the infamous “Winter Dance Party” tour in the past several months, but the most significant involves an underappreciated [...]
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