Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will hold its quarterly series, Nashville Cats: A Celebration of Music City Session Players on Saturday, Feb. 21, with a salute to drummer Jerry Carrigan. Among his many sessions, Carrigan played drums on Jerry Reed’s “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” Charlie Rich’s “The Most Beautiful Girl in [...]
Jessica Cassyle Carr at Alibi.com holds a Q&A with Denver based former 16 Horsepower frontman and current Gothic Americana singer/songwriter David Eugene (aka Wovenhand.)
The Arizona Daily Star gives us a peak at the A-list alt.country artist packed tribute album for the Hacienda Brothers leader Chris Gaffney. Joe Ely, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, Tom Russell, James [...]
Country-rock legend Charlie Daniels‘ Twin Pines Ranch in Lebanon, Tenn.will be featured on a January 24th Country Music Television (CMT)’s Cribs Episode. The only thing I have to add is THERE’S A CMT CRIBS?!
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that rockabilly angel Wanda Jackson will be inducted as the only 2009 recipient [...]
Before Allison Krauss Robert Plant went to Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers for his Americana fix. I absolutely just love these maniacs!
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 sample:
Do you feel like you are becoming more popular in the mainstream media?
JD: Yeah, I feel like we’re [...]
Still waiting for the resurrection.
The sounds of fury, dust and passion fly from New York’s punk-roots band Sixgun Republic. A rockabilly soul and a country heart defines the sound of this bad-ass band. Check ‘em out.
Yeah those weasels at the CMJ denied yours truly a press pass to attend their precious conference (don’t they know that tens of people worldwide read this blog?!) but who cares there’s only one show I want to go to anyway and it’s open to the public and CHEAP! from the label:
BLOODSHOT 11th annual CMJ [...]
Coming to a city built on attitude and pretense Wayne “the Train” Hancock would have none of it. Instead he won over the packed and adoring crowd at the Rodeo Bar with his signature brand of straight-up hillbilly swing in support of his current Bloodshot Records release “Tulsa.” Wayne Hancock is the real deal. [...]
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