Celebrate National Train Day – Top Train Songs
No other technology has held a thematic sway over roots and county music like the the railway system (okay, maybe distilling) The train has been a symbol of freedom that has catured the iamginction of…
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Willie Nelson To Release New Album, “Band of Brothers,” Releases Video “The Wall”
Willie Nelson, or as I like to call him the Texas Yoda, might have just celebrated his 81st birthday but he’s showing no signs of altering his prolific ways. The Country Music hall of Famer…
Austin City Limits Announces Inaugural ACL Hall of Fame in Conjunction With Upcoming 40th Anniversary
Austin City Limits (ACL) announced today the launch of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in conjunction with the iconic television series’ upcoming 40th Anniversary. This Hall of Fame’s Inaugural Induction Ceremony will take…
Willie Nelson on Jimmy Kimmel Live – 3/114/14
Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcast the show for a week in Austin from The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts, The show’s week-long trip to the capital was timed with the…
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard Working on New Album
The live (and lively) performance by country legends Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Merle Haggard on the 56th Annual Grammy Awards stage to perform the classics “Highwayman,” “Okie From Muskogee” and “Mamma’s Don’t Let Your…
Mary Sarah to Release “Bridges,” duets with Dolly, Willie, Merle, Ray Price
It’s fashionable to gripe about the current sorry state of contemporary country music and for good reason. In it’s single-minded obsession for hits and radio charting Music Row often appears to be like an Chinese…
Winners at the 56th Grammy Awards
In he four years that I’ve participated in the GRAMMYs (yes, that a brand thing) community of bloggers program I always have someone ask me. “Why do it?” I have a simple answer, exposure. Not…
Ken Burns’ Country Music Documentary Coming to PBS in 2018
I’ve been hearing about Ken Burns’ new project focusing on Country Music for over a ear. Now PBS has made it a realty b announcing that the anticipated documentary, succinctly called called “Country Music,” will…
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The Story Behind “Shotgun Willie” [VIDEO]
This is a great story behind the great title song of a great album. Sure Willie is widely known as the Texas Yoda, but he has had a past occasionally reminiscent of a Cops episode.…
10 Country Music Awards Moments to Remind Us It Didn’t Always Suck
Remember when Loretta Lynne won CMA Awards with Loretta Lynn announced as Entertainer of the Year? How about when johnny Cash hosted the event. Of course you don’t. It was decades ago and most of…