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Aaron Watson – “The Road”
Songwriter: Elliot Park
There are umpteen “road” songs out there, but few are told from the road’s point of view. After all, what’s a slab of asphalt got to say? Turns out the road is full of tough love, telling its travelers “I offer many choices and places you can go/But you must choose/I’m just the [...] -
Album Review: Eleven Hundred Springs – Country Jam
In conversation, as well as in my writing, I’m often dismissive of current, corporate, country music radio, so it’s typical to field accusations of “elitism,” of trying to pigeonhole country music’s sound into an early 60’s George Jones mold for narrow-minded nostalgia’s sake, and of requiring that every song have the pretense of earth-shaking [...]
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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 [...] -
Jim’s Big State Wrap-up: Saturday
The beer is always free when you can’t drink it.
Lucky enough to be on the VIP list for last weekend’s Big State Festival, I was taunted by the endless supply of free golden-bubbly goodness available in the festival’s private lounges. Let me reiterate: Free. Beer.
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Nothing Like Last Of The Breed Will Ever Come Along Again And New Book Names Top 100 Country Fan Clubs
I can’t read enough about Last of the Breed. It’s to the point where I don’t remember the last time I was this excited about one thing. My intense excitement is mostly due to something Chet Flippo mentions in his review of the Last of the Breed album, “nothing like this is ever going to [...]
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Texas Country on Radio Free Texas
With the advent of iTunes and MySpace, music on the internet exploded, which led to podcasting and internet radio station. The Beaumont Enterprise reports that thirty million Americans have listened to internet radio within the past week. I don’t listen to a lot of radio, period, but when I do listen to internet radio, one [...]
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Randy Rogers on Making it Big and Selling Out
Eric Banister has a great article over at Americana Roots about Randy Rogers and how he’s trying to stay connected with his fans as he becomes more successful. He is conscious about what his fans think and doesn’t want people to start calling him a sell out because he’s getting a little bit of fame, [...]
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