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If you’re like me and you want to see the The Marty Stuart Show, but your cable provider doesn’t offer RFD-TV, you can head over to the MSS YouTube page for some highlights. It is great to see my old family firnd Charlie Pride doing his classic Kiss an Angel Good Morning (below.)
Charlie Pride – Kiss an Angel Good Morning
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Billy Powell (56), long time keyboardist for the legendary Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Wednesday morning (Jan. 28) at his condo in Orange Park, Fla., near Jacksonville, of an apparent heart attack.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – What’s Your Name
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are confirmed as performers at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony and telecast in Los Angeles (February 8th,2009) The backing band will include acclaimed performer and ‘Raising Sand’ producer T Bone Burnett, and a stellar cast of musicians from the Raising Sand album and tour.
The event will mark both the first trip to the awards and first performance for Robert Plant, who says: “I’m looking forward to being in Los Angeles, but musically — and spiritually — I expect we’ll be somewhere halfway between the Mississippi Delta and the Clinch Mountains.”
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Black Country Woman
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The Drive By Truckers are just off their start to 2009 with 3 sold-out shows for their Athens GA 40 Watt Club Homecoming, they next will be playing this weekend, with opener Bloodkin, in Knoxville at the Valarium (Thurs Jan 29) and two nights at Asheville’s historic Orange Peel (Fri Jan 30 and Sat Jan 31). Next month they have a few more dates including a two night stand in DC at 9:30 Club and a few dates with Texas’ Hayes Carll.
On Feb. 5th Drive By Truckers Front Man Patterson Hood will play an annual benefit for Athens, GA’S The Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival.
On Feb 7th, PBS will be airing the episode of Austin City Limits starring Drive By Truckers and Ryan Bingham. Check local listings for exact time and date of airing.
April will see the DBTs backing the legendary R&B and soul and funk pioneer Booker T. Jones ANTI- Records debut Potato Hole. The band will be backing Booker T. in some dates including thier first ever New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival appearance on Friday April 24th.
The Drive-By Truckers with Kelly Hogan – I’m Your Puppet
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Alison Bonaguro over at the CMT.com blog attended a party for Nashville-based Grammy nominees and was taken by the site of genres being erased for the love of music, country music legend Brenda Lee hobnobbing with Rock Legend Robert Plant. Lee is receiving a Grammy for lifetime achievement and Plant, along with Alison Krauss, has been nominated multiple categories, all deserved.
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are slated to release a new album, Bend In the Road, this sometime year. The album will be comprised of 10 originals and covers of Billy Joe Shaver and Steve Earle. (via The 9513)
Let’s all do John Rich a favor and ignore him.
Gene Beley was Ventura Star-Free Press reporter when he, and the newspaper’s chief photographer, Dan Poush, were invited to accompany Johnny Cash to Folsom Prison for his landmark 1968 concert. New pictures taken at that event recently surfaced when Beley returned to the prison a few months ago to participate in a BBC radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the concert. Beley brought along the photos to give to Jim Brown, a retired correctional officer and operations manager of the Retired Correctional Peace Officers Museum at Folsom Prison.
Beley was with Cash’s party in a room at West Sacramento’s El Rancho Hotel the night before the concert when Rev. Floyd Gressett, asked Cash to listen to a tape recording by Folsom Prison inmate Glen Sherley. Gressett was a friend of Cash’s who ministered to California inmates, had worked with the prison’s recreation director, Lloyd Kelley, to set up the concert.
Copies of these new photos are available only at the Museum at Folsom Prison and a shop in Billings, Mont. (The Sacramento Bee)
Fabchannel will present a live webcast of Alt.country legend James McMurtry entire show from the legendary Paradiso in Amsterdam tomorrow, January 27. The show is the first of McMurtry’s European tour. The webcast will start at 19.00 (GMT).
A few days after the live show, the entire recording will be included to Fabchannel’s online video archive.
Fabchannel records and streams live concerts every week. The James McMurtry recording is the latest addition to the extensive Fabchannel video archive, which includes 1000 full-length concert recordings, including Paul Weller, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Calexico, Iron and Wine, Fred Eaglesmith, Grayson Capps, Chuck Prophet, Joe Henry, and Drive-By Truckers and many more.