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Those Darlins Ready New Summer Release

March 26th 2009 in Americana, Bands, Bluegrass, Country Music, Legends, New Artists, New Releases, Texas, Video, alt.country

Craig Shelburne over at the CMT blog has posted a great video I had never see with Willie Nelson and fantastic bluegrass Melonie Cannon covering Willie’s Back to Earth.

Speaking of Texas (Wille, Texas…same thing) If you’re in the San Francisco area tomorrow night head over to the historic Fillmore to catch Houston’s own Robert Earl Keen with the great Hayes Carl as the opener
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I heard that Miley Cyrus is slated to Perform at the 4th Annual Country Music Awards on April 5. Aand here I thought it was Miley’s buddy Taylor Swift’s job to serve the ‘tween demographic with insipid tales of mall heartache. Or maybe that’s Carrie Underwood… Point is the CMA’s continue to embody thier new acronym definition, Country Music my Ass.

Murfreesboro, Tenn’s country-punk sweethearts of the prison rodeo, Those Darlins, got a lot of deserved attention at SXSW ‘09 and it looks like they are due for more love this Summer when their self-titled debut album is released on July 7^th (vinyl on July 23^rd) on OH WOW DANG records. Here’s the title cut off their current Wild One EP to hold you over until then.

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Those Darlins – Wild One(mp3)

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