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Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster Honored as Leaders in Country Music

August 31st 2010

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and music publisher for Combine Music and founder of Monument Records, Fred Foster each received the Dale Franklin Award, an award honoring their unique leadership in country music during an invitation-only event on Sunday night (Aug. 29) in Nashville. On hand to perform were friends Rodney Crowell, Jamey Johnson, Lyle Lovett, [...]

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Hank Cochran Passes On

July 16th 2010

Hank Cochran, one of country music’s most storied and prolific songwriters who wrote songs for Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, George Strait an many others passed away yesterday morning. His Wikipedia bio reads like a  Mother lode for source for country gold: Born during the Great Depression in Isola, Mississippi, he contracted [...]

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To all who have served.

May 28th 2010

I want to share one of my favorite songs for this holiday weekend. The Ballad of Ira Hayes, written by the folk singer Peter La Farge,  tells the story of Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American and one of the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who raised the flag  on Mount Suribachi during the [...]

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Second Annual No Depression Festival Line-Up Announced

May 2nd 2010

No Depression magazine (and now web site), the go-to authority for roots and Americana music for 15 years, has announced the line-up for their second annual No Depression Festival, and it’s a peach! The Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, The Cave Singers, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, Punch Brothers and Sera Cahoone. The fun starts on Aug. [...]

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News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson Releases Early Demo Compilation

April 28th 2010

Kris Kristofferson’s latest is actually some of his earliest. Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 is a collection of raw demos made to shop his songs around to singers while sweeping floors at Columbia Studios in Nashville (where he later first met Johnny Cash.) I listened to 16 cuts [...]

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News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson is Open for Football Draft

April 25th 2010

Kris Kristofferson reminisces about his days playing football. The days before he was pulled because of too many head injuries, that is. CMT interviews the Texas Yoda, Willie Nelson about his new T Bone Burnett produced album, Country Music. Dwight Yoakam & Merle Haggard will perform together June 18 & 19 at Oregon’s Chinook Winds [...]

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News Round Up: George Strait Breaks Billboard Charts Records

April 15th 2010

Listen to a stream of Merle Haggard’s  I Am What I Am, his upcoming release Vanguard Records. Everyone knows that Music City big label country music is more pop than country, and some takes many pages from classic rock playbook, but PopMatter.com’s Steve Leftridge does a fine job of connecting the dots. (Pour Some Sugarland [...]

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News Round Up: Hank Williams Snags Pulitzer Citation

April 13th 2010

Hank Williams is being posthumously awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board. The honor was revealed Monday (April 12) in conjunction with the announcement of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize recipients in journalism, drama and music. The citation was determined following a private survey among experts of popular music. It notes Williams’ “craftsmanship as [...]

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News Round Up: New Releases by John Prine, Johnny Cash Art Collective

April 12th 2010

In true DIY fashion The Johnny Cash Project is a “global collective art project” that allows fans from all over the world to contribute to a arrogated, user-generated video for the title track from the latest Johnny Cash recording American VI: Ain’t No Grave. The single images are then threaded together into a one-of-a-kind labor [...]

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Billy Joe Shaver Acquitted of 2007 Shooting

April 10th 2010

In a case that will go down in Country Music Outlaw history, a Waco, Texas jury has acquitted 70-year-old Texas Country Music Hall of Fame member Billy Joe Shaver of aggravated assault in the shooting of a man outside a Lorena, Texas bar in 2007. the incident came after Shaver had played a show.Willie Nelson [...]

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