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Texas Monthly Features Five Texas Music Legends

August 13th 2009 in Americana, Bluegrass, Film, In memoriam, Legends, New Releases, News, Texas, alt.country, awards
  • Texas Monthly’s Pitch Perfect features five legendary Texas musicians—Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, Sonny Throckmorton, Robert Earl Keen, and Jack Ingram— and asks them to sgare the mystic secrets to writing a great country song.  It’s a funny, informative a great read.
  • The nominees for the 20th International Bluegrass Music Awards Awards has been announced (Yay SteelDrivers!) The ceremony will be hosted by Grammy-winning country artist Kathy Mattea and the legendary bluegrass band, Hot Rize, on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Legendary guitar pioneer Les Paul died today at the age of 94 at White Plains Hospital due to complications from pneumonia.
  • More info on Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar work for the upcoming Jack Kerouac soundtrack collaborative album entitled “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur.”  The twelve song set is due October 20 via F-Stop/Atlantic and will serve as the soundtrack to the Kerouac documentary of the same title.  Farrar and Gibbard were approached by the filmmakers in 2007 about writing music for the film, which documents the events surrounding the author’s time spent in the Big Sur region of California.

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  4. Neal McCoy, Linda Davis and Michael Martin Murphey are 2009 Texas Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
  5. 95.3 The Range presents Texas Music Revolution 100, March 22, 2009


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“Texas Monthly Features Five Texas Music Legends”

[...] Texas Monthly published a round table interview with five Texas musicians — Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, Sonny Throckmorton, Robert Earl Keen, and Jack Ingram — on the subject of songwriting and more specifically, the secret to writing a great country song. (via Twang Nation) [...]


[...] I went there to try to be a songwriter, but I gave up trying to understand that marketplace. Writing for a marketplace just offends my sensibilities. I always said, “If I ever break even, I’m movin’ back to Texas.” I haven’t done it yet. ● – – Guy Clark, in conversation with Patty Griffin, Jack Ingram, Robert Earl Keen and Sonny Throckmorton. Check out this piece in Texas Monthly; it’s one of the coolest things I’ve read recently. (via The 9513, via Twang Nation) [...]




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