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News Round Up: Levon Helm Documentary Coming to SXSW

February 8th 2010 in Americana, News Round Up, alt.country
  • The will of the late singer/songwriter Stephen Bruton, is being contested by his possibly estranged widow. Bruton provided the inspiration for the Crazy Heart character Bad Blake played by Jeff Bridges and worked with T. Bone Burnett on the movie’s soundtrack in his days of fighting cancer.
  • And for more in Crazy Heart news, the good folks at the 9513.com have a great interview with Ryan Bingham. Bingham. reflects on his Golden Globe winning and Academy Award nominated song The Weary Kind.
  • PopMatters debuts a new monthly country music column, Kickin’ Up Dust. First up? Willie Nelson!
  • The CMT blog has a nice run down of early 2010 Americana releases. Looks to be another bumper year!
  • Speaking of great 2010 releases, seminal 80’s cowpunk band, and the 2008 Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Jason and the Scorchers will release their first album in 14 years. Halcyon Times will be released in February 2010 and was co-produced by Scorcher member Warner E. Hodges and Brad Jones, and features guest contributions from Dan Baird and Tommy Womack.

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Merle Haggard Signs With Vanguard Records, Drive By Truckers Announce Dates

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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Music Review : Ray Wylie Hubbard – A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C) [Bordello Records]

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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News Round Up:Help Austin Help Haiti Benefit January 24

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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News Round Up: Ryan Bingham and T. Bone Burnett Win Golden Globe

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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News Round Up: Dixie Chicks Split For New Album

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.”

the as Angeles Times [...]

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News Round Up: New Johnny Cash in February

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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News Round Up: New Johnny Cash Recording in February

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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News Round Up: New Roky Erickson/Okkervil River in April

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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