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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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New Study Claims Country Music Listeners Are Hardworking and Outgoing
A study of 36,000 participants and carried out by Professor Adrian North tries to establish a link between musical tastes and personality types. According to findings, listeners of country music are hardworking and outgoing.
Jessica Simpson made her first Opry appearance over the weekend and performed the lead single from her new album, “Come On Over,” [...]Continue reading "New Study Claims Country Music Listeners Are Hardworking and Outgoing"
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Bonnie Hill Is On a Mission to Get Keith Whitley Honored In Hall of Fame
Keith Whitley uber fan Bonnie Hill is on a mission to get the late singer recognized alongside all the legends already inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her online petition has amassed nearly 2,000 signatures, including those of Ralph Stanley, J.D. Crowe and Alan Frizzell. Hill knows her petition alone won’t get Whitely [...]
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Asleep At The Wheel Campaigns To Make Western Swing Texas Symbol
Asleep at the Wheel is working to present Western Swing as the official symbol representing Texas’ musical heritage at the January 2009 legislative session, and they ask that if you feel the same way, please write into the state representatives.
Wynonna plans to include a cover of Merle Haggard’s “Are the Good Times Really Over [...]Continue reading "Asleep At The Wheel Campaigns To Make Western Swing Texas Symbol"
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Patty Griffin Scores Two Awards At AMAs
Merle Haggard’s latest album, The Bluegrass Sessions, “was produced by a bluegrass musician with bluegrass musicians, recorded at a bluegrass studio, released on a bluegrass label, racked under bluegrass in record stores, aired on bluegrass radio, covered by the bluegrass press, and it’s currently in it’s fourth consecutive week at # 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass [...]
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Dolly Parton Reissues Three Albums With Bonus Tracks And Hank Williams Is The Subject Of A Musical
Dolly Parton is re-releasing three of her albums from the past, only this time she’s including some previously unreleased bonus tracks on the albums. The three albums will be Coat of Many Colors, My Tennessee Mountain Home, and Jolene. Personally, I think it’s a brilliant marketing move. Parton seems to be appearing in the news [...]
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Tuesday Morning News Roundup
On this day in 1925, the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville’s famed home of country music, made its radio debut on station W-S-M.
Charlie Daniels (“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” guy) was recently presented with the “Seven Seals Award” by the National Committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The ceremony took [...] -
Monday Morning News Roundup
On Wynonna’s very first Christmas album: “She has grown weary of vocal acrobatics displayed by singers who are intent on changing the classic songs that mean so much to so many.” Can I get a big, fat Amen? Leave the classics alone people. If you want to sing it, then sing it like it’s meant [...]
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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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