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Tracy Lawrence Made History At CMA Awards With Win
Trisha Yearwood hates the fact that ticket scalpers are getting a hold of some of the $31 tickets to Garth Brooks’ shows and selling them for astronomical prices. Witness the prices on eBay.
Country music is keeping Jessica Simpson busy these days. She attended the BMI Awards to see her buddy Willie Nelson canonized, made sure [...]Continue reading "Tracy Lawrence Made History At CMA Awards With Win"
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Garth Brooks Expands Schedule to Include Nine Shows
In an effort to milk as much as possible from Taylor Swift’s debut an expanded “limited deluxe” edition is being offered that will include three new tracks, including Swift’s first phone call with Tim McGraw, and a DVD. The new edition will be made available on Nov. 6.
It seems Merle Haggard talks more politics then [...]Continue reading "Garth Brooks Expands Schedule to Include Nine Shows"
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Lonestar Names Their New Fearless Leader…I Mean Lead Singer
In his Nickel Creek concert review Chuck Hinton says “Assuming they avoid the many pitfalls of young stardom, the sky is the limit for these fledgling troubadours.”
Has anyone come across Digital Rodeo yet? I just came across it and haven’t had a chance to properly explore, but it looks like a nicely designed social [...]Continue reading "Lonestar Names Their New Fearless Leader…I Mean Lead Singer"
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Jessica Simpson Aspires To Be Like Pasty Cline.
Here’s the second part to the Kris Kristofferson interview that Chet Flippo posted yesterday. Kristofferson talks about a few of his songs and where he got the inspiration to write them.
I think you cut “Moment of Forever” in the early ’90s on an album, and it’s coming up again. Willie has cut that, hasn’t he?
Willie [...]Continue reading "Jessica Simpson Aspires To Be Like Pasty Cline."
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Trisha Yearwood Teams Up With Big Machine Records And Austin City Limits Lineup Released
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Top 100 Drinking Songs is down to the top ten drinking songs of any genre. George Jones and Loretta Lynn made the cut. They’ll be moving the full list over to Barstool Mountain on Monday as they start writing about each individual song. I personally haven’t heard of more than [...]
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We've labored long and hard to come up with our list of the Top 10 Country Albums of 2008. Click here to see who claimed the honor of the year's top album, as chosen by The 9513's staff and writers.
Don’t confuse disappointing with worst, as that list would most likely be dominated by obscure indie knockoff bands along with a couple of mainstream releases. There has to be a modicum of expectation that’s dashed upon the release of an album for it to qualify for the year’s most disappointing.
Join host Kelly Dearmore as he shines the light on several noteworthy album releases you might have missed and interviews various artists, from Sarah Borges to Trent Willmon and Reckless Kelly to Wade Bowen, in the first two episode of The 9513 podcast.
Jim Malec counts down the top 20 country music news stories of 2008. How many times do you think John Rich will be mentioned?Current Discussion
- Vicki: I heard George on my first visit to the Opry. That was a magical visit for I got to ...
- running kind: Hi, just to let you know, my 6 collegues in office vote for you each day, although they don't know ...
- Hollerin' Ben: I didn't actually contribute to this list, but I don't think it's disappointing at all. I think it's a ...
- Brady Vercher: I disagree with the assessment that the list is disappointing. Only 30 or so of my top 75 made the ...
- Matt C.: I do have to say that this is a disappointing list. The exclusion of songs that made last year's list ...
- Drew: I'm not familiar with much of his stuff, but if his lyrics are consistently as strong as the ones you ...
- Adriana: I Love this song! Me and my friends went to a road trip to Alabama and the song was so ...
- Brady Vercher: At least we know we've got the lion and the tin man ready to go if anyone ever decided to ...
- Wilburscott: I got to see George 3-4 years ago at a show here in northern Michigan. I think around the time ...
- Rick: Rick's Random Tidbits Part 2: Miss Loretta Lynn will be performing on both the Friday and Saturday Night Grand Ole ...
