Toshio Hirano
PRI’s The World featured a great segment with correspondent Julie Caine profiling Japanese teacher and country and western singer Toshio Hirano. Hirano heard Jimmie Rogers when he was a teenager and he talks about how…
Tag Archives: Country Music
Documentary on Country Music Planned
From Variety.com – Plans are in motion for documentarians David Leaf (The U.S. vs. John Lennon) and Morgan Neville (The Night James Brown Saved Boston) to chronicle the history of country music/ the series will…
Hanks Williams at the Opry
60 years ago in this day, June 11th 1949, Hank Sr. made his famous debut on the Grand Ole Opry. He sang his hit Lovesick Blues and received a record number of ovations and encores,…
Emmylou Harris News
As I’ve mentioned before Nonesuch Records will release Emmylou Harris’ new album “All I Intended to Be” (Nonesuch) on June 10. This will be her first solo effort since 2003’s Stumble Into Grace. Listen to…
Nashville Fan Fare
I (justifiably) bitch a lot about Music City and tier ongoing campaign to strangle any beauty and creativity out of country music, but one tradition I do like is the idea of the annual Fan…
Texas Man Returns George Jones Guitar After 46 Years!
Props to retired oil man Larry Berry of Chandler, Texas for returning George Jones’ stolen acoustic Martin-000 guitar which he bought for $10 from two boys at his Fort Worth, Texas, apartment complex in 1962(!)…
Dana Jennings Playlist
Dana Jennings, New York Times editor and author of the excellent “Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music” (review forthcoming) gives the NYT Paper Cuts blog his country music playlist (Living With Music:A…
Willie Nelson & Roger Miller – Old Friends
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The Village Voice Covers New York Country Music
The Village Voice has a fine write up (Country Music Grows in Brooklyn) on the burgeoning Country Music scene in Brooklyn and mentions a Twang Nation favorite Hank’s Saloon, a 100 year old hell raising…
Ryan Bingham Talks New Release/ Plays New York City
Ex bull-rider and troubadour of dusty trails and hard living Ryan Bingham discusses with PopMatters.com how his latest release, “Mescalito” (Lost Highway), came to be. Bingham also says that he is working on the follow-up…