It’s not often I get to wear my Lucchese and Stetson on the D train headed downtown to the Rockafeller stop to Radio City Music Hall but on this wet, muggy Spring evening I had an occasion to do so. The brief “Last of the Breed” tour showcasing three legends of Country Music – Ray Price, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson – accompanied by nine-time Grammy winning Western-swing band, Austin’s Asleep at the Wheel was making a stop on their [...]
Friday (3/29) Grammy winner and Country Music Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner will make a stop to Joe’s Pub to grace the City with his signature brand of sentimental storytelling to the City. Wagner was signed to Anti records last year and his new release, the Marty Stuart produced ‘Wagonmaster” is slated to be released on May 2007.
A compilation of Wagner’s most eerie work “Rubber Room: The Haunting Poetic Songs of Porter Wagoner 1966-1977″ was released last summer.