Hank Cochran Passes On
Hank Cochran, one of country music’s most storied and prolific songwriters who wrote songs for Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, George Strait an many others passed away yesterday morning. His Wikipedia bio…
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Music Review: Willie Nelson – Country Music (Rounder) Merle Haggard – I Am What I Am (Vanguard)
If there was a country music Mount Rushmore two legendary (and appropriately weathered) mugs sure to be immortalized in granite would be Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Willie and The Haggard have left their indelible…
News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson Releases Early Demo Compilation
Kris Kristofferson’s latest is actually some of his earliest. Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 is a collection of raw demos made to shop his songs around to singers…
News Round Up: Kris Kristofferson is Open for Football Draft
Kris Kristofferson reminisces about his days playing football. The days before he was pulled because of too many head injuries, that is. CMT interviews the Texas Yoda, Willie Nelson about his new T Bone Burnett…
News Round Up: George Strait Breaks Billboard Charts Records
Listen to a stream of Merle Haggard’s I Am What I Am, his upcoming release Vanguard Records. Everyone knows that Music City big label country music is more pop than country, and some takes many…
Merle Haggard Signs With Vanguard Records, Drive By Truckers Announce Dates
Merle Haggard has penned a deal with independent label Vanguard Records- home pf Levon Helm – ans will release hos label debut I Am What I Am, his first album on April 20. The project,…
News Round Up: New Johnny Cash Recording in February
The big for fans of the Man In Black is that Rick Rubin’s American Records will release American VI: Ain’t No Grave, the final volume in the American series that helped revitalize Johnny Cash’s career…
News Round Up: T Bone Burnett Discusses Crazy Heart Collaboration with Stephen Bruton
The Country Music Museum and Hall of Fame plans to update their main exhibit space to devote an area to Americana and contemporary bluegrass music. The new exhibit will feature artifacts from Alison Krauss, Jim…
Music Review: Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes – $600. Boots
The Internet not only allows this site to exist but it makes discovering bands (and my work) a lot easier. I discovered Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes after coming across a featured review…
Interview: Malcolm Holcombe – Casting Out Demons
“Everybody get’s their own take on a song. They find something that they can tap their foot to or clench their fist to. Hopefully it’ll be somewhere in between.” Malcolm Holcombe Malcolm Holcombe is like…