“Dolly,” a deluxe, 40CD box set covering Dolly Parton’s 4 decade spanning career to feature 99 hits , deep cuts, unreleased tracks, rarities and B-sides as well as 11 Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton duets. The set will incude a 60-page full-color booklet including rare photography and memorabilia, plus liner notes by Laura Cantrell and [...]
The Wall Street Journal talks to some of the performers on the Big Surprise Tour. The toue is traveling the East coast and showcases the Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes Earle, The David Rawlings Machine (featuring Gillian Welch) and the Felice Brothers.
Houston Presses’ William Michael Smith in his Lonesome Onry and Mean column tells [...]
I’m really pleased with the recent crop of westerns that have hot the big screens as of late – 3:10 To Yuma, Appaloosa, No Country for Old Men – but there’s one in particular I’m looking forward to.
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, co-written by Texas music legend Ray Wylie Hubbard, is a violent Western [...]
I went to see Ed Harris’ big screen adaptation of Robert B. Parker’s Western Appaloosa, about two friends (Harris and Viggo Mortensen) hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a bloodthirsty rancher (Jeremy Irons). The movie pretty much runs directly from the book so if you read and liked [...]
Nashville Tennessee’s The Bittersweets – Chris Meyers (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Hannah Prater (vocals, guitar) and Steve Bowman (drums) – are offering a song “Wreck” from their upcoming release “Goodnight, San Francisco” ( 9/9/08) produced by Lex Price, Mindy Smith. Personally I take the title of their new release as a good omen for my new [...]
Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. It’s a bit cheesy but is worth watching for Johnny Cash’s performance as a sadistic hit-man. The entire movie is on YouTube and is cut into 8 segments.
Front man for the th’ Shack Shakers Col. J.D. Wilkes’ trailer for his new movie “Seven Signs”, about movie stated to be about the “Music, Myth and The American South.
20th Century Fox has set a Walk the Line: Extended Cut DVD for release on 3/25. The film will feature 17 minutes of additional footage and the 2-disc set will also include audio commentary with co-writer and director James Mangold. The Johnny Cash Jukebox feature offers 8 extended musical sequences from the film with new [...]
I loved this book by the brilliant Cormac McCarthy (don’t believe me? Ask Oprah!) and I love the Cohen Brothers. I don’t see how this can be anything but great!
Popmatters.com has an excellent review of Robert Elfstrom’s documentary Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, and His Music (1969). The film highlights Cash at his career pinnacle and looks back at his upbringing in rural
Arkansas.From the review: More than that, he was content to dwell in contradiction; he didn’t try to resolve all his [...]