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Chris Cagle Arrested For Punching Fan’s Boyfriend In the Face
After performing at a charity benefit Chris Cagle reportedly punched a fan’s boyfriend in the face. Reports say that Cagle declined to sign an autograph for a woman who then became verbally abusive. Bouncers were escorting the woman and her boyfriend out of the club when an undisclosed incident occurred at which time Cagle allegedly [...]
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Taylor Swift Scores One For The History Books
BMI is holding an invitation-only songwriters event that will feature four Texas writers/artists: Bill Carter, Monte Warden, Sunny Sweeney, and Bruce Robison.
“This is for A&R people, producers, people looking for songs, artists looking for songs and publishers who come to hear these writers to hook them up with their writers,” Williams said. “It’s a networking [...]Continue reading "Taylor Swift Scores One For The History Books"
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The 2007 CMA Awards Aftermath: Country Music Hijacked
There’s only one country album on Stylus Magazine’s List of the 50 Best Albums of 2007, and it’s Miranda Lambert’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, coming in at number two.
Yallwire posted the second part to their video interview with Billy Joe Shaver. This time around he sings “Get Thee Behind Me Satan” and gives some insight into [...]Continue reading "The 2007 CMA Awards Aftermath: Country Music Hijacked"
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Jim’s Big State Wrap-up: Sunday
Concluding our post-event coverage of the 2007 Big State Country Music Festival, here is the second half of my weekend wrap-up.
Sunday:
Colin Gilmore, 11:15.
The son of Texas icon Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Colin played to a small but very enthusiastic crowd at the BMI stage. Admittedly, I only had chance to stick around for about [...] -
And The Bands Played On: Big State Festival Day Two
Kelly Willis and The Wrights were on the brink of starting their 12:30 sets when we arrived at the festival grounds on Sunday. Writing the Saturday wrap-up kept us from showing up earlier to watch Colin Gilmore and Ashley Ray. Our famished stomachs led us straight to the nearest food while we half-heartedly listened to [...]
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Townes Van Zandt To Be Awarded The President’s Award At AMA
Before you go out and buy The Great Lost Performance from Johnny Cash that was recently released, head over to Twangville and see what they have to say about the album.
This release is billed as The Great Lost Performance, but I’m not sure I’d go that far. It is a rollicking good time but [...]Continue reading "Townes Van Zandt To Be Awarded The President’s Award At AMA"
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Digital Dolly Parton Wants You To Give Her A Play
Despite their musical prowess, Bruce Robison and his wife Kelly Willis like to keep their careers separate for the sake of their own sanity. John Goodspeed says they “could portray the everyday American married couple — if the average family had four children under age 6.” Willis mentions that their four year-old twins write songs [...]
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What The Hell Does Too Country Mean?
Sunny Sweeney stirred up a hornet’s nest over at the semi-new CMT blog yesterday when she asked the proverbial question, “What the hell does too country mean?“ Ok, those aren’t her exact words, but they might as well have been.
Lori McKenna talks about growing as a person and an artist, and not ever wanting to [...] -
Exes Tell All About Former Crazy Flames In Miranda Lambert’s Confessional Booth
Carrie Underwood’s upcoming album still lacks a name, but the release date has been set for October 23rd while finishing touches are still being applied. Interestingly enough, her debut album Some Hearts is still the best-selling album of 2007.
In the official announcement of their blog, CMT says that The Wreckers, Lance Miller and Halfway [...]Continue reading "Exes Tell All About Former Crazy Flames In Miranda Lambert’s Confessional Booth"
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Country Music Accounts For A Fourth Of Radio’s Top 100 Songs
CMT has a new blog up where multiple authors are posting, one of which is Sunny Sweeney. She’s already written about two of my favorite Texas guys in Adam Hood and Jason Boland and the Stragglers. She said people kept asking her if she only listens to old country, and she did until recently when [...]
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In an attempt to discover and highlight the best music every month, We'll be publishing a list of the best songs released throughout that period. Here's Brady Vercher's picks for October.
For the second episode of The 9513 Country Music Podcast, your host Kelly Dearmore caught up with two seemingly different artists in Sarah Borges and Trent Willmon. Take a listen.
Free Music Downloads: If you’ve only recently come to country music, or have never delved past the genre’s surface and it’s most famous names, you may not have heard of Tom Russell. That’s a shame, and The 9513’s Free Music series is here to help set you down the right path.
Martina McBride - “Ride” Catchy, but a little low on cogency–not to mention originality. And it essentially resolves into the same kind of positive “message song” that has defined so much of McBride’s recent work.
Richie McDonald - “How Do I Just Stop” So gloriously simple and unequivocally lackluster that people of every political persuasion should rejoice in the opportunity to come together and have a hearty laugh at its expense.
Donnie Vondra - “If I Didn’t Love You” Combinining a golden trifecta of country music—steel guitar, fiddle and a strong, twangy vocal—"If I Didn't Love You" pulls together a sweet, toe-tapping ditty reminiscent of Marty Raybon-era Shenandoah.
Lance Miller - “Bacon Frying” A charming country song that is beautiful for its simplicity, a musical remnant from a time when songwriters understood that often the best thing to do is just get out of the song’s way.
John Rich - “Another You” For a guy who is supposed to be a genius songwriter, John Rich sure does seem to be running out of ideas. 
George Ducas - “Walk Through This World” Ducas banks on the success of recent artists’ pleasantly bland lyrics and agreeable instrumentation for his first release with WhiteStar Nashville.
In this exclusive interview for The 9513, Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook talks about life with the band, as well as A Place to Land, the group’s current album, which has charted in the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart on two separate occasions
Forgotten Artists: Cal Smith - When the Florida Sunshine Opry (Eustis, FL) booked its first “name” (non-local) act back in 1999, the act they chose was Cal Smith. No wonder, since Cal is an excellent singer, musician, storyteller and showman. | View more artists featured in Paul W. Dennis' recurring "Forgotten Artists" feature »
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- Jim Malec: Actually, I just gave a "Thumbs Down" to the skillfully written "Bacon Frying." It takes more than being good at ...
- idlewildsouth: For quite the majority of the review there is more implication to Brad Paisleys arrogance towards his playing than there ...
- Peter: I kinda liked "Departure" cos the band sounds real good backing him up. And I'm not generally a fan of ...
- Jim Malec: I think Ben secretly has a crush on Aimee.
- Kelly: No "Ben Bashing" going on from me, I just recognized a certain venom that I thought only came out when ...
- Jim Malec: How is any of this an "attack" on Brad's character? Brady, I would say that there really are no positive ...
- idlewildsouth: This seems like more of an attack on Brad Paisleys character than it does his album. While ill admit there ...
- Brady Vercher: So is this to say there aren't any positive aspects to the album at all?
- Jim Malec: Considering that Ben once wrote an article praising the promise and impact of Taylor Swift, I don't think agenda is ...
- Drew: Well said... just a total waste of an album.
