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News Round Up: Dixie Chicks Split For New Album

January 14th 2010

Jack Riley at London’s  The Independent interviews Indy-Honky-Tonk sweet heart  Caitlin Rose about her recent tour of Britain, her influences and her upcoming full release.

Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison (born Erwin) will record an album together without their Dixie Chick partner Natalie Maines. Manine’s father reports that the split is “temporary.”

the as Angeles Times [...]

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News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson Presented With BMI Icon Award

November 12th 2009

Rosanne Cash talks to the Wall Street Journal about her new release, The List, and joins George Jones by stating her views on the homogenization of mainstream country radio.

The Who’s Roger Daltrey says Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium is the “That’s the best bloody place for a musician to play in the whole —— world.” You [...]

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News Round Up: George Jones Says Get Your Own Damn Genre!

November 6th 2009

Happy birthday to Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer and the “Paul” of the Willie’s song “Me and Paul,” Paul English.  Happy birthday also to legendary Texas singer/songwriter Guy Clark.

The latest installment of Popmatter.com’s excellent Torch & Twang series Juli Thanki delivers a post exploring ithe intersecting careers of bluegrass legend  Bill Monroe and musician and folklorist [...]

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New Round Up: Austin’s Rusty Wier Dies

October 12th 2009

Austin singer-songwriter Rusty Weir died October 9, after two years of struggling with cancer. Wier was considered a country legend and he was inducted into the Austin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

The New York Times reviews the Jamey Johnson show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Johnson played two new songs, Back [...]

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News Round Up: Re-releases from Waylon Jennings / New Release from Hank Williams

October 9th 2009

Country music legend George Jones seems to be popping up on all the TV shows recently to promote his new Cracker Barrel exclusive album, A Collection of My Best Recollection. This Sunday morning the Possum will make another appearance on CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday October 11, 2009. Host and interviewer Bob Schieffer visits George’s [...]

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News Round Up: Jamey Johnson Pays Respect

October 7th 2009

Country Music Neo-Outlaw Jamey Johnson shows his respect for the classics by covering Vern Gosdin, George Jones, George Strait and, his most obvious influence, Waylon Jennings, at the Chicago Country Music Festival.

Break out a jar of granny’s skull rattle folks, Juli Thaki at the 9513.com has given us her top 26 songs about moonshine.

Tom Russell [...]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 Round Up

October 6th 2009

The crowds were large  an estimated 750,000  – more than Coachella, Lollapalooza and All Points West combined – urbane, hippies, street buskers and hipsters all in Golden Gate Park and under mostly warm Indian Summer skies. The bill on all 6 stages (one more added this year) were all impressive and walking from stage to [...]

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News Round Up:Billy Joe Shaver / Ray Wylie Hubbard’s The last Rites of Ransom Pride

October 3rd 2009

L.A. Times Pop & Hiss holds court with Texas songwriting royalty Billy Joe Shaver. Shaver discusses Bob Dylan, how after all life has thrown at him he still stays optimistic and voices frustration over somewhat indifference to some of his recent releases.

Beaufort County News reviews the latest Bearfoot show at Washington’s Turnage Theater.

While in San [...]

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News Round Up:The Flatlanders and Dave Alvin Hit The Rails

September 29th 2009

The Los Angeles Times features a cool story on the Roots on Rails travel program organized by the Vermont-based Flying Under Radar travel service. This feature focuses on a train ride through the Southwest presenting Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock (AKA The Flatlanders) and Dave Alvin. Guests pay to travel with the artists [...]

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News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson Cruises

September 28th 2009

Chico California’s NewsReview.com features a brief interview with local resident Merle Haggard.

Whitney Self at the CMT.com blog details the story behind Kris Kristofferson’s most famous hit and its Italian cinematic motivation.See him perform this and more on Studio 330 Sessions.

More on Kristofferson – ABC’s Good Morning America’s Weekend Drive cruises around Nashville with the man [...]

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