From Pitchfork.com – On September 18, CMV/Columbia/Legacy will release The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, a 2xDVD compiling 66 live performances from the 58 episodes of Johnny Cash’s 1969-1971 “The Johnny Cash Show”. Kris Kristofferson hosts the DVD, which features performances from Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ray Charles, Creedence [...]
So, brah, here I am watching Dog the Bounty Hunter Episide #49 – “A Helping Hand” (Season 3) and there it is, a clip of Scott H. Biram’s song “Blood Sweat & Murder” in the background when Dog is on his way to the airport to help Leeland with a difficult bust. SWEET! I’m sure [...]
The Texas yoda goes mano a mano with Steve Colbert in his no satire zone tonight. I’m sure there will be a big dust-up concerning Stephen Colbert’s new Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor Americone Dream – vanilla ice cream loaded with caramel and fudge-covered waffle bits and Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler – peach [...]
Listen up hillbillys, it’s time for Uncle Jack Sparks to rant and review of the Coutry Music Awards. Always a heaping helping good time of meanness at the expense of Nashville’s conveyer belt country products and insight into acts that really should get the awards. An excerpt: The only list you’re going to read grounded [...]
The CMT Crossroads show featuring Steve Earle and Rosanne Cash I was lucky enough to attend when filmed here in New York City will be aired this Friday a 8pm ET. This is a good 3 months earlier than I had predicted it would air. The show was amazing so check it out.
There is a great article on Deadwood’s place in American media and it’s brilliance as revisionist Western at PopMatters.com. It still pisses me off that HBO has decided to pull the plug on this great show and is behaving more like the tradional network TV it has grown to surpass.
I really would prefer that this series would last forever (at least another 2 years), but I’ll settle with a couple of two hour specials over nothing. From the New York Times – “Deadwood” is a counterintuitive western; instead of wide open spaces and men of few words, the town where it is set is [...]