Johnny Cash – 5 Years On
As well as being the birthday of George Jones, Sept. 12th is also the shared date of the death of a country legend, Johnny Cash. RIP J.R., there will never be another like you. Johnny…
Tag Archives: Country Music
Happy Birthday George Jones!
Saratoga, Texas’ (but broUght up in Vidor) very own George Glenn Jones (AKA the Possum) is a living embodiment of country music. Jones’ bouts with the demon rum led to periods where Jones was too…
Musician, Actor Jerry Reed Dead at 71
One of country music’s leading class clowns (reviled only by Roger Miller) and guitar greats has died. The Tennessean writes: Jerry Reed, country music’s howling virtuoso and a star of stage, studio and screen, has…
It Burns When I Pee Episode 18 – Twang Aint Just A Guy Thang
You like girls? You like Country Music? Well sure you do…hell you got a pulse don’t you?! The always incorrigible Blake Clayton at the REAL country podcast “It Burns When I Pee” features Episode 18…
Pitchfork’s Amanda Petrusich Surveys Americana Music In New Book
Amanda Petrusich has interviewed Liz Phair and Feist for Pitchfork.tv, not she turnes her talents to documenting the vast and rugged territory that is Americana. From Pitchfork.com: “It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and…
Blue Mountin Releases “Midnight in Mississippi”
One of the original alt.country bands (they appeared on the cover of No Depression’s second issue), Blue Mountain, are back together after trials and tribulations and have just released their sixth studio album “Midnight in…
Carl Smith, Marty Robbins & Webb Pierce – Why Baby Why
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Chrissie Hynde Goes Country
Popmatters.com has a review of the DVD “Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music” which they discribe as “Informative and educational, intriguing and entertaining, part American history lesson, part biography and part concert film…” The good…
Hank Williams pedal player Don Helms dies
From Country Standard Time: Don Helms, pedal steel guitarist for Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys, died this morning at 81. He is featured on more than 100 Williams recordings. Helms played a lap steel (also known…
Loretta Lynn in the New York Times
A Smithsonian Institution exhibit on the roots of American music opens today in Shepherdsville, KY. The Tennessean.com has a piece on a guy I like and will keep my eye on, Montgomery, Ala., native Jamey…