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News Round Up: Patty Griffin & Bruce Robison News

August 24th 2009 in Americana, Country Music, Legends, New Artists, New Releases, News Round Up, Television, Texas, alt.country
  • The New York Times also features a piece on Willie Nelson’s American Classic.
  • I have come to the acceptance step of the grief cycle, bit Todd VanDerWerff’s excellent and exhaustive re-review of the HBO Western series Deadwood at The Onion’s TV Club brings a smile to my face.
  • Check out Kim Ruehl’s interview with Santa Cruz’s roots band The Devil Makes Three from the Bumbershoot music festival.
  • Tom Russell posts a new addition to his blog giving context and back stories to the songs on his upcoming Calexeco-backed album Blood and Candle Smoke.
  • Bruce Robison posts on his MySpace blog that he will have a song in Texas cartoon mogal Mike Judge(Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill) film Extract and that he’ll be heading out  on tour with Robert Earl Keen and Todd Snider. (via the 9513.com)
  • Patty Griffin’s upcoming Buddy Miller produced Gospel album Downtown Church will be released in early 2010 and was recorded earlier this year in the sanctuary of the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville, according to her website.

Related posts:

  1. News Round Up: Bruce Robison Video Diary, E.C. and Orna Ball Tribute
  2. New Releases This Week from Patty Griffin, Joe Ely
  3. News Round Up: Johnny Cash Graphic Novel & Do You Look Like Tanya Tucker?
  4. News Round Up: Willie Nelson Works with T Bone Burnett
  5. Willie Nelson Twitter Interview


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