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Tim McGraw Tops Charts with Scorned Hits Package
You know that Greatest Hits 3 album Tim McGraw apologized for? It’s now his 11th No. 1 album on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 44,000 copies in its first week.
On October 26, 10 different venues in 10 different cities across Texas will host a Concert for the Coast. The event will bring together over [...]Continue reading "Tim McGraw Tops Charts with Scorned Hits Package"
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Who the Country Music Hall of Fame Should Induct Next
For years the Country Music Hall of Fame was caught in the position where many deserving performers had died off before their turn for induction arrived. This was mostly due to the Hall’s practice of electing only one new member per year (and in at least one year, electing no one).
By the time the [...]Continue reading "Who the Country Music Hall of Fame Should Induct Next"
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More Performers Added To CMA Music Festival Lineup
A whole slew of performers were added to the lineup for the CMA Music Festival, including everybody’s favorite Celebrity Apprentice, Trace Adkins. The lineup also sees Randy Travis returning after a decade long absence.
Do Lyle Lovett and Australian pop singer Ben Lee look alike? Sixty-eight percent of the voters at Spinner see at least some [...]Continue reading "More Performers Added To CMA Music Festival Lineup"
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Vince Vaughn: Honky Tonk Man
I knew there was a reason I liked Vince Vaughn, aside from his fast-talking, used-car salesmanesque humor and wit. His twelve-song celebrity playlist on iTunes has a couple of songs apiece from Dwight Yoakam, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard and then he throws in a Hank Williams and Buck Owens duet with Yoakam [...]
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Hillbilly Poetry Playlist: An Introduction to Recitations
The recitation is a tradition embedded deep in country music. It’s the art of storytelling that involves spoken words with musical accompaniment, and usually has a strong moral undertone. They vary in subject matter, from the honorary (”I Remember Johnny Horton” - Claude King) to the infinitely cheesy (”To a Sleeping Beauty” - Jimmy Dean). [...]
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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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- Hollerin' Ben: Chris N. "I’m still not sure what’s so arrogant about it." I'd say that cutting an instrumental record where you play fast ...
- Paula_W: This is what I love about country music. Damn shame it’s so hard to find. Amen.
- Trailer: Well, there's this one chord progression on track 3 that subliminally says "I can shred better than Hendrix and my ...
- Kelly: That T-Shirt with the abstract heart shape he wore at the CMA's was amazingly arrogant....like Terrel Owens level arrogant.
- Chris N.: I'm still not sure what's so arrogant about it.
- Walter M: I think you missed some of the better songs on Toby's new album though - I would've picked "Time That ...
- idlewildsouth: Im still lost as to what about the record was arrogant. Its lack of focus? Its lack of 'spirit'?
- Hollerin' Ben: Brady "So then, in regards to my original question, you don’t think there’s anything positive about the record." I don't think there's ...
- Guy: Paisley seems to be a great guy ... and very talented. His success has given him a sandbox to "play" in, ...
- Brady Vercher: So then, in regards to my original question, you don't think there's anything positive about the record. Like I said, ...
