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  • News Round Up: RIP Vic Chesnutt

    Welcome to 2010 folks, not let's get a cup of joe and roll up our sleeves, and get into the latest i

  • Zac Brown Band Has Year’s Top Country Dance Club Hit; Early Waylon Jennings Reissues

    The Zac Brown Band topped the 2009 list of the top 10 country dance club hits with its song "Toes."

  • Ryan Bingham Gives Crazy Heart Musical Weight

    Since it's only out in limited release, I haven't seen Crazy Heart, the new film about a fictional c

  • Willie Nelson Not Slowing Down; Ralph Stanley’s Swan Song; The Lovell Sisters Trio Downsize

    Willie Nelson collaborated with T Bone Burnett on a forthcoming album of vintage country songs that

  • Top Country Albums of the Decade (#30-#21)

    Miranda Lambert's best album, Vince Gill's epic artistic endeavor and an Opry legend's final turn in

  • Top Country Albums of the Decade (#40-#31)

    Gene Watson, Randy Travis, Pam Tillis, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price have all long been

  • Townes Van Zandt Shoebox Poems Set to Music; Rascal Flatts’ Future In Jeopardy … On ‘CSI’

    When Townes Van Zandt died in 1997 he left a shoebox of his poems to David Broza, who he had only pe

  • Lee Ann Womack Joins Strait and McEntire; Jeff Bridges Plays Country Singer In ‘Crazy Heart’

    The 2010 George Strait tour with Reba McEntire just got a little more can't-miss with the addition o

  • Guy Clark Suggests You Read Dylan Thomas

    Coming up as a journalist, I was encouraged to read as much as I could, to learn how to tell a story

  • Album Review: Lyle Lovett – Natural Forces

    On paper, an album that leads with four original songs—two of those hot in groove and content—th

  • Staff Picks For September/October 2009

    Juli Thanki One More For The Road by Adam Steffey The past few months have been pretty rough on the

  • LYLE LOVETT's New "Natural Forces" Out Now

    MUSIC NEWS - Lyle Lovett's new album Natural Forces, is out this week (via Universal Music) and is b

  • LYLE LOVETT's New "Natural Forces" Out Now

    MUSIC NEWS - Lyle Lovett's new album Natural Forces, is out this week (via Universal Music) and is b

  • Es NACHO VEGAS, pero nos gusta

    El miércoles estuvimos en la primera jornada del Festival I know I'm a singer-songwriter (but I lik

  • Garth Brooks Unretires; Colonel Tommy Cash; Stream Drew Kennedy; Taylor Swift to Host SNL

    At a Nashville press conference today, Garth Brooks announced that he's coming out of retirement wit

  • ROBERT EARL KEEN – THE ROSE HOTEL

    The first time I ever heard anything referred to as Texas Country it was a song from Robert Earl Kee

  • Ruby Wright Passed Away; New Releases; Holly Williams Married; Stream Cash’s ‘The List’

    Ruby Wright, the daughter of Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells, was found dead in her apartment on Sunda

  • Pat Green and BNA Records Split; New Releases; Country Hall Looking to Double In Size

    Pat Green and BNA Records have parted ways. New releases for the week of September 22, 2009 include:

  • Album Review: Guy Clark – Somedays the Song Writes You

    Guy Clark is one of the premier songwriters of his generation-even that might be an understatement.

  • Buddy and Julie Miller Big Winners at Americana Awards; Capitol Records Shuts Down Ronnie ...

    Peter Cooper recapped last night's Americana Awards where Buddy and Julie Miller were the big winner

  • Guy Clark Continues To Hone His Craft

    The title track to Guy Clark's new album, Somedays The Song Writes You, is a rumination on songwriti

  • JOHN FOGERTY. “The Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again”, la reivindicación de una era

    Después de la antológica gira de John Fogerty por España trayéndonos toda la fuerza intacta de l

  • Country Music Association Corrects Omission; Rosanne Cash to Debut ‘The List’ Live Sept. 23

    The Country Music Association accidentally left the Brad Paisley and Keith Urban collaboration "Star

  • Brand New Companion

    I found this video on youtube featuring Steve Earle singing the Townes Van Zandt blues, Brand New

  • SIMPLY SIX: John MacLean

    John MacLean is a singer/songwriter from Massachusett. 1. For many artists, they cite a defining m

  • Lyle Lovett and Guy Clark Prepare New Releases

    The Wall Street Journal has a great article on Alison Brown, Missy Raines and Dale Ann Bradley (The

  • Steve Earle and Joe Pug at Berklee

    Friday night I had the chance to experience a performance that symbolizes all that is right about m

  • Songs of the Fifty States: Alabama to Georgia

    I haven't forgotten... Alabama - Neil Young Kicking off the list is a demanding job, but Alabama doe

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