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Songpluggers Reflect On Country Music Industry
Songwriters write songs. Performers perform those songs. But how do they get from the songwriters to the performers? Through songpluggers like Sherrill Blackman, Dale Dodson, Tom Luteran and Abbe Nameche. Randy Rudder says they gathered at CMA one morning to discuss their craft.
What, for you, are the best and/or worst aspects of the songplugger’s life?
Blackman: […]Continue reading "Songpluggers Reflect On Country Music Industry"
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The Music Video as an Indicator of Artistic Viability
I purchased Garth Brooks’ The Ultimate Hits two-CD and DVD package months ago but only recently had the chance to do something that I don’t think I’ve done for any other artist: sit down and watch all of the Garth’s major video releases from first to most recent. What I realized about Brooks’ career […]
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43rd Annual ACM Awards: Who Should Have Been Nominated
In a perfect world, The 9513 staff would select the ACM nominees and fans would not vote for Entertainer of the Year. Here in the real world, the Academy votes for the nominees, the fans vote for the Entertainer, and I make fun of both.
There are only two rules: as much as I’d like to, […]Continue reading "43rd Annual ACM Awards: Who Should Have Been Nominated"
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82 Year-Old Ray Price Not Slowing Down
Andrew Dansby has a fantastic profile on Ray Price. He’s currently 82 years-old, performed around 88 shows last year, hopes to do close to 100 this year, and is working on two albums. One is a collaboration with Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, and the late Calvin Owens due in June. The other is called My […]
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Nashville As “Broadway South”
Should the Yearwood record serve as a new paradigm for the genre?
The 9513 recently named the best albums of 2007 and the #1 spot went to Trisha Yearwood’s Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love. In fact, Jim Malec called Yearwood’s album “a testament to everything that’s good about contemporary, mainstream country music.” […] -
Delightfully Spirited Dolly Parton Will Grace SXSW Audience
If you plan on attending SXSW this year the area shows just got a little sweeter with the announcement that Dolly Parton will be playing at the Austin City Music Hall.
With no Golden Globes to attend Tim McGraw and Jimmy Fallon hit the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills for a late night karaoke session. They […]Continue reading "Delightfully Spirited Dolly Parton Will Grace SXSW Audience"
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Preview James McMurtry’s New Album, Just Us Kids
Lighting Rod Records has a page up where you can preview the full upcoming James McMurtry album, Just Us Kids. The release date isn’t until April 15, so this is definitely a treat.
Dierks Bentley likes the camaraderie involved with playing hockey because he’s just one of the dudes. He even says that he excels in […]Continue reading "Preview James McMurtry’s New Album, Just Us Kids"
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Country Singer/Songwriters Are Hot Investments
When someone starts talking about IPOs and investing my eyes gloss over, but if you have some money to blow, I mean invest, then country music is apparently a hot commodity. And by “some money,” I mean a minimum of $500,000.
Country singer/songwriters are the single hottest investment property you can find in 2008. A new […]Continue reading "Country Singer/Songwriters Are Hot Investments"
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Trisha Yearwood - “This is Me You’re Talking To”
To prepare for this review, I re-listened to most of Trisha Yearwood’s single releases in an ultimately futile attempt to discover a better vocal performance. Some, such as “I Don’t Paint Myself into Corners” and “The Song Remembers When,” come close, but I believe that “This is Me You’re Talking To” represents Trisha Yearwood’s best […]
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The Best Country Songs of 2007
First off, Happy New Year to everyone. To start the new year off, we’ve compiled a list of the best songs from 2007. The staff had a lengthy discussion about which songs should be available for nomination for such a list and we decided that a song had to be an original recording on an […]
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Carrie Underwood - “Just a Dream” “Just a Dream” is not perfect. In fact, it’s deeply, deeply broken. But the single is a great vocal performance of a risky song
Toby Keith - “She Never Cried In Front Of Me” Apart from the shifts in perspective and changes in tense, the major problem with this song is that the lyric fleshes out too many irrelevant details.
Brad Paisley - “Waitin’ On a Woman” Bizarrely, it took a song written by someone other than Brad Paisley for radio to hear what the Paisley style can truly accomplish.
LeAnn Rimes - “What I Cannot Change” When LeAnn Rimes enters a recording studio, she carries with her the most impressive instrument in the room.
Randy Travis - “Dig Two Graves” The combination of song and Travis’ performance together are an example of what makes country music truly exceptional.
Pat Green - “Let Me” The song itself owns Pat Green and he gets lost somewhere in the melody.
Merle Haggard at the Ryman Auditorium: Of the Haggard classics, “Silver Wings,” “The Way I Am” and crowd-favorite “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” were performed with confident ease while “Kern River” was sung with inspired tenderness and “Back to Earth,” from 2007’s Last of the Breed, contained more than a trace of Willie’s nasally twang. 
One of an emerging wave of artists empowered by decreasing production costs and a rapidly changing distribution landscape, Kelleigh Bannen has taken a do-it-yourself approach to her debut album, Radio Skies.
The two-time Dancing With The Stars champion, Julianne Hough, recently took some time to answer questions for The 9513 in this exclusive interview.
After cutting ties with Warner Bros. Records, Ray Scott decided to take the proverbial bull by the horns and form Jethropolitan Records, a place where he can get back to the blood and guts of what he terms “real country music,” the kind of stuff you don’t hear on radio anymore.
Catch up on Nashville Star through Matt C.'s live blog. Episode I | Episode II | Episode III | Episode IV | Episode V
Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music by Dana Jennings When Jennings addresses modern country in the final chapter, he leaves you with the impression that it just can’t tap into the primal psyche the same way the classics that served as his nursery rhymes did.Current Discussion
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