Houston Chronicle Features Ray Price
The 9513 returned after a brief outage (hyew!) to draw my attention to this great article from the Houston Chronicle featuring country music legend Ray Price. Here’s a taste: Price’s early notoriety was as a…
Category Archives: Interviews
Merle Haggard on Bill Maher – Jan 25, 2008
For all those of you out there that think that country music is the de-facto soundtrack for the G.O.P. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgp08CHo-jg[/youtube]
A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver
I am truly honored to post this very first interview for Twang Nation with the Texas singing/songwriter, original outlaw and old friend of my dad, the legendary Billy Joe Shaver. I talked to Billy Joe…
All Music Guide Interview with Patterson Hood
All Music Guide has a brief but funny interview with Drive By Truckers’ Patterson Hood talking about the new release “Brighter than Creations Dark”, the addition of John Neff to the band and why the…
Tom T. Hall in the New York Times
That bastion of Eastern elitism, the New York Times, features another great interview with country music legend and master story teller Tom T. Hall entitled “Who Needs Country Radio? Not Tom T. Hall.” Hall talks…
It Burns When I Pee – Episode 11
Blake and the fine folks at “It Burns When I Pee” closed oot 2007 with another fine podcast featuring the Handsome Cash, lead guitar and lap steel player for the German country band “Hank Cash”…
Colonel JD Wilkes in Stay Thirsty Media
Stay Thirsty Media has a great interview with the Legendary Shack Shakers front man Colonel JD Wilkes. It it the Colonel dicusses his new movie Seven Signs, and the latest LSS release “Swamp Blood.” A…
Steve Earle Speaks on Music and Activism
Texas expat and roots rock legend will take time from promoting his latest album, Washington Square Serenade (9/25) and shooting HBO’s The Wire, where he stretched and portrays an ex-junkie, and heads uptown from his…
Hank III Interview at KNAC.COM
Hank Williams III took time from the road to talk to KNAC.COM about his new CD, “Damn Right and Rebel Proud” (Curb – early 2008 release) his early inspirations, his country royalty legacyand the sorry…
MTV Urge Interviews Porter Wagoner
Country music’s legend, Porter Wagoner, sits down with MTV Urge for an interview and discusses his start as well as serious health problems he had to overcome to record his new album, Wagonmaster. You can…