January 31st 2010
Merle Haggard has penned a deal with independent label Vanguard Records- home pf Levon Helm – ans will release hos label debut I Am What I Am, his first album on April 20. The project, featuring 12 new songs he has written, was co-produced by Haggard and Lou Bradley.
Six members of Willie Nelson’s band and [...]
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January 21st 2010
Ray Wylie Hubbard my have been born in Oklahoma, but he will forever be associated with the uniquely peculiar and distinguished title Texas songwriter. Whether he’s throwing off an ironic lark like Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother, which his buddy Jerry Jeff Walker turned into a monster hit in the 70’s – a song [...]
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January 21st 2010
A Help Austin Help Haiti benefit will be held on Sunday, 1/24 at Austin Music Hall in Austin, Texas. All proceeds go to the Clinton / Bush Fund and Oxfam. Lineup: Asleep At the Wheel, Band of Heathens, Bruce Robison, Charlie Sexton, The Flatlanders, The Gourds, Guy Forsyth, Jack Ingram, Joe Ely Band, Kelly Willis, [...]
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January 18th 2010
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Haiti’s history has caused catastrophic destruction in the hemisphere’s poorest country. The leading humanitarian group, AmeriCares is rushing emergency aid to the survivors across the country. Please help if you can.
As previously reported, two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks – guitarist-banjoist Emily Robison and her sister, fiddler [...]
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January 14th 2010
Jack Riley at London’s The Independent interviews Indy-Honky-Tonk sweet heart Caitlin Rose about her recent tour of Britain, her influences and her upcoming full release.
Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison (born Erwin) will record an album together without their Dixie Chick partner Natalie Maines. Manine’s father reports that the split is “temporary.”
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January 13th 2010
The big for fans of the Man In Black is that Rick Rubin’s American Records will release American VI: Ain’t No Grave, the final volume in the American series that helped revitalize Johnny Cash’s career beginning in the early 90’s, after he was unceremoniously dropped from Mercury Records. February 26 would have been Cash’s 78th [...]
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January 13th 2010
The big for fans of the Man In Black is that Rick Rubin’s American Records will release American VI: Ain’t No Grave, the final volume in the American series that helped revitalize Johnny Cash’s career beginning in the early 90’s, after he was unceremoniously dropped from Mercury Records. February 26 would have been Cash’s 78th [...]
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January 12th 2010
The Rick Rubin produced American recording done by Johnny Cash near the end of his life featured some inspired covers (most famous being the cover of Trent Reznor’s Hurt on 2002’s album, American IV: The Man Comes Around) Paste.com lists 10 songs they wished Cash had lived to cover featuring works by Joe Strummer, The [...]
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