Country Acts and the Superbowl Halftime Show
Bill Chapin at MLive Music is posting his “entry in my Albums of the Aughts series, highlighting 50 great or near-great albums released since Jan. 1, 2000.” Albums of the Aughts No. 5 is the…
Tag Archives: Alison-Krauss
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss To Play Grammys
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are confirmed as performers at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony and telecast in Los Angeles (February 8th,2009) The backing band will include acclaimed performer and ‘Raising Sand’ producer T…
Americana Update
When Bob Lefsetz, of the online music industry screed the Lefsetz Letter, writes about you positively you’re probably doing something really cool. This is just what he has done after listening to the Americana Music…
Loretta Lynn Live at Ft. Worth’s Bass Hall
Dallasnews.com has a nice write up on the grand dame of Country Music, Loretta Lynn’s sold out show last Saturday at Ft. Worth’s Bass Hall. The night before Lo-retty had played Stubb’s in Austin’s (latter…
First U.S. Plant/Krauss tour dates revealed
Looking for something to pass the time while you wait on that Led Zeppelin reunion tour? No Depression reports that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are taking their deliriously wonderful Raising Sand collaboration on the…
Best Releases of 2007
Music sales are down in most genres but the Americana and roots sales look strong for 2007. The labels still sue fans, bitch and whine about online piracy which is only half of the story.…
PopMatters Best of Americana 2007
Adding to their earlier list of country, pop-country and singer-songwriter albums of 2007, PopMatters.com adds their list of 2007’s best Americana music. Or as I like to call it, the stuff that doesn’t fit the…
Review – Robert Plant/Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (Rounder)
Country music has some great male/female duos – Tammy Wynette & George Jones, Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner and now… Robert Plant and Alison Krauss? No really, let me ‘splain. While Mssr. Plant and his…
The Roots of Led Zeppelin
If songs like “Down By The Seaside,” “Gallows Pole” and “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” didn’t convince you that Led Zeppelin had occasional detours off the road to Clarksdale to the Appalachians, or at least Nashville, then maybe…
CMA / AMA Best Artists – My View
So the Country Music Association and the Americana Music Association have recently released their nominees list for their respective awards and in an attempt to figure what passes for country music nowadays and what the…