The New York Times posts a great review of the riot grrrl-trad country group Those Darlins show at the lower East-Side’s Mercury Lounge.
Willie Nelson’s Facebook page is posting hints where this year’s Farm Aid will be held. So far we have: The city for this year’s concert has a professional sports team named after an animal, the concert will be in a state that is in the top 12 for number of farms and it will be in a city & state where Farm Aid where Farm Aid has never been held.
Speaking of the Texas Yoda – Head over to Texas Music Matter to listen to Amazing Grace: The Willie Nelson Story – a winner of two National Headliners Awards including this year’s Grand Prize for Radio. Nearly a year in the making, the program features rare music plus interviews with, among others, Kris Kristofferson, Norah Jones, John Mellencamp, Ray Price, biographer Joe Nick Patoski, Willie’s best friend and closest confidante (his sister, Bobbie), and the Yoda himself.
Country music legend (and daughter of country music legend Mel Tillis) Pam Tillis talks to the Vancouver Sun about the state of country music.
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I didn’t think that NYT Those Darlins review was very good… pretty lukewarm!
I’m sure the group would say that ANY NYT review is a great review.
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