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The Demise of No Depression
2008-02-19 18:14:00 The alt-country music magazine No Depression will cease to exist after publishing the May-June issue. The current issue of the magazine contains a statement that basically says the decline in music sales is adversely affecting their means to make money. Despite what the magazine’s title reads, that’s pretty depressing news. Marty Stuart recalls the first time ...
Emily West - ?Rocks In Your Shoes?
2008-02-19 17:48:00 One of the most disheartening things about the current state of mainstream country music is its abject lack of personality. There are few new artists who possess genuine, non-fabricated star quality, and fewer even who seem to have anything particularly interesting to say. Enter Waterloo, Iowa, native Emily West , a Capital Nashville newcomer with a ... More About: Shoes , Country Music , Rocks
Your Essential Willie Nelson Songs
2008-02-18 18:15:00 Michael Corcoran lists “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” as the number one essential Willie Nelson song and asks, “Which Willie Nelson songs can you not live without?” It’s hard to argue with his list, but seeing as though it wasn’t included in the list of ten, I’d have to say the Townes Van Zandt ... More About: Songs , Essential
Album Review: Ashton Shepherd - Sounds So Good
2008-02-18 15:15:00 It?s tough for some traditional country fans to admit that the days when every budding country music star steps off the bus in Nashville from the cottonfields of Dyess, Arkansas or the coal mines of Butcher Holler, Kentucky are over. This shift accelerated in the 1990s, when Windsor, Ontario native Shania Twain became the ... More About: Reviews , Sounds , Country Music , Review , Good
Clint Black - ?Long Cool Woman?
2008-02-17 15:48:00 Songwriters: Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, and Roger Greenaway What’s happening in a world when Clint Black releases only the second single of his career that wasn’t written himself and it follows the first? And when is he going to give his next album a title and release it? It seems like he’s grasping at ... More About: Cool , Clint Black , Woman
Your Take: Visionary Collaborations
2008-02-16 14:59:00 Collaboration between established artists has created some interesting and successful pairings throughout country music’s lifetime. Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty, Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, Alan Jackson and George Strait, and with the advent of technology, Alison Krauss & Keith Whitley, and Hank Williams and Bocephus. Last year, Raising ... More About: Visionary
Montgomery Gentry - ?Back When I Knew it All?
2008-02-16 02:25:00 Songwriters:: Gary Hannan, Phil O’Donnell, Trent Willmon Nostalgia for a hell-raising youth has become a dominant theme on country radio and I can?t explain why. It wasn?t a very good idea in the first place and has only become worse as every Lynyrd Skynyrd-inspired wanna-be rocker has released their own rewrite of the same theme. ... More About: Reviews , Country Music , Back , Montgomery Gentry
Bust Out The Vinyl and Sleeveface Your Favorite Artists
2008-02-15 17:50:00 Sleeveface.com is a website gaining in popularity, and deservedly so as the illusions created can be quite entertaining. The term sleeveface is defined as “one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.” Basically a person holds a sleeve of a vinyl disc featuring ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Sara Evans , Willie Nelson , Keith Urban , Artists
Country Music Hall of Fame Scores Lester Flatt?s Guitar
2008-02-14 17:25:00 Valentine’s Day came a day early for the Country Music Hall of Fame when Marty Stuart and Connie Smith donated memorabilia from their personal collection. Among the most famous of the gifts was Lester Flatt’s guitar. Other major pieces include: a briefcase in which Hank Williams used to store his songs; a 1930 Dobro on which ... More About: Guitar , Country Music
George Strait - ?I Saw God Today?
2008-02-14 05:37:00 After 27 years in the music business, I wouldn?t expect George Strait to be able to learn new tricks. In the 1990s, country radio fell in love with three-verse, sentimental narrative structures. The nearest Strait came to this convention was 1995?s ?Check Yes or No,? a three verse love song that portrays a couple in ... More About: Reviews , Country Music , Today , George Strait
Kern County Honors Bakersfield Legend With Merle Haggard Drive
2008-02-13 16:45:00 Today Merle Haggard gets his own road. California’s Kern County approved the renaming of Seventh Standard Road to Merle Haggard Drive . The ceremony will take place at the Bakersfield Harley Davidson and will also mark the beginning of an initiative to create a greenway next to Haggard Drive to be known as Hag’s Place. Hector Saldaņa ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Dolly Parton , Sara Evans , Miranda Lambert
Jennifer Hanson - ?73
2008-02-13 15:31:00 Songwriters: Jennifer Hanson I don’t know that I’ve ever heard a song that captures the essence of a divorce from the child’s point of view as well as the latest single, “‘73,” from Jennifer Hanson. Hanson puts words to the quintessential question silently asked by children of divorced parents and she sings the song perfectly ... More About: Country Music
2008 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
2008-02-12 20:14:00 The newest inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame for 2008 were announced today at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, The Statler Brothers, and Ernest “Pop” Stoneman will be inducted into the pantheon of country music’s great later this year. Stoneman will be inducted ...
Keith Urban T-Shirts Now Made With Recycled Plastic
2008-02-12 16:29:00 Keith Urban has partnered with a company to help make his t-shirts more environmentally-friendly by being partially made from recycled plastic bottles. At the same time, Kenny Chesney says his tour requires 55 trucks and 28 buses to make everything work. Who didn’t see this one coming years ago? Dolly Parton postponed her tour, citing ... More About: Keith Urban , Shirts
New Jessica Simspon Album to Feature Dolly Parton
2008-02-11 16:34:00 Rumor has it that Jessica Simpson is in talks with Dolly Parton about doing a duet on her new album. (via ggcolumn) In an exclusive interview with Country Hound, Dierks Bentley claims his band is the best at Halo 3, beating both Miranda Lambert’s and the Cross Canadian Ragweed bands. And, in another Q&A with Peter ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Vince Gill
50th Annual Grammy Awards Wrap-Up
2008-02-11 15:24:00 We haven?t featured much Grammy coverage here on The 9513, but give us credit for weighing in when it counts: after the results have been revealed and with the benefit of perfect hindsight (we certainly wouldn?t want to stick our necks out before the votes have been cast). In all seriousness, readers who desire extensive ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Awards , Willie Nelson , Keith Urban , Dierks Bentley
Rare Bob Wills Hotel Recording Discovered
2008-02-08 17:09:00 A previously unreleased and unknown recording of Bob Wills has been discovered and is available for purchase on bobwills.com. ?The recording is of Bob Wills telling his life story, in his own words, of how his career developed. It?s about half an hour long and it is certainly Bob Wills?s voice, answering questions asked by ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Hotel , Recording , Billy Joe Shaver , Rascal Flatts
January ?08 Album Review Wrap-Up
2008-02-07 15:58:00 Catherine Britt - Little Wildflower Catherine Britt released her third album, Little Wildflower, in her native Australia. This album, produced by Brett Beavers, attempts to cover ground in both contemporary and traditional country and while her contemporary contributions are decent, they blend in with current offerings from other artists. However, Britt’s performance and smoky vocals ... More About: Willie Nelson , Kenny Chesney , Country Music , Review , January
Brad Paisley?s ?Online? Heads List of CMT Music Awards Nominees
2008-02-06 17:46:00 Nominees for the CMT Music Awards have been announced with several new categories. Brad Paisley ’s “Online” and Sugarland’s “Stay” each pulled multiple nominations. Jeff Bates is back with a self-titled album due out on April 8th. “Jeff also tells us that this album will be ‘very different than my other albums because it’s a little more ... More About: Music Awards , List
Rhonda Vincent Notches Another Entertainer of the Year Win at Bluegrass Awa
2008-02-05 20:57:00 Rhonda Vincent has won Entertainer of the Year at the Bluegrass Awards every year since 2002 and this year was no different. Check out Edward Morris’ recap of the evening. And in light of a recent topic surrounding Vincent, the title of this article is ironic. This year’s Country Music Hall of Fame inductees will be ... More About: Rhonda Vincent
Satellite Radio?s Opportunity
2008-02-04 18:26:00 A government ruling on the legality of the proposed Sirius-XM merger is expected soon. The merger will require approval from two government agencies: the Department of Justice must investigate the merger for violations of antitrust law and the Federal Communications Commission must decide whether the merger will serve the public interest. I don?t possess ... More About: Radio , Satellite , Country Music , Opportunity , Satellite Radio
Fallen Tree Split Bobby Bare?s House in Two; Everyone Okay
2008-02-04 17:11:00 The wife of Bobby Bare suffered two cracked vertebrae when a tree fell on their house, slicing it in half. She was watching TV when the tree hit. Luckily she was able to crawl from under the tree and call 911. The new Hayes Carll album is due out April 8th and will be titled Trouble ... More About: House , Tree , Fallen
EP Review: The Wrights - ?The Wrights?
2008-02-02 17:51:00 With one album to their name, the husband and wife duo consisting of Adam and Shannon Wright recently released a followup EP simply titled The Wrights on a label (ACR) owned by Adam’s uncle, Alan Jackson . It was music that brought the couple together over ten years ago and lead to love and now ... More About: Country Music , Review
Nashville As ?Broadway South?
2008-02-01 20:31:00 Should the Yearwood record serve as a new paradigm for the genre? The 9513 recently named the best albums of 2007 and the #1 spot went to Trisha Yearwood ?s Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love. In fact, Jim Malec called Yearwood?s album ?a testament to everything that?s good about contemporary, mainstream country music.? ... More About: Broadway , Editorial , South , Nashville
CBS Anchor Sets Sights On Opry
2008-02-01 17:16:00 Face the Nation anchor Bob Schieffer, age 71, is retiring after the next President is inaugurated to tour with his country band, Honky Tonk Confidential. Schieffer says that his goal is to play the Grand Ole Opry. I don’t know if he’s serious or not, but in today’s episode of Crook & Chase, Mel Tillis ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Sights , Dolly Parton , Keith Urban , Sets
Jewel - ?Stronger Woman?
2008-01-31 17:15:00 Songwriters: Jewel /Marv Green Growing up in Alaska, Jewel used to ride out into the wilderness on horseback, with a .45 strapped to her hip. She also killed a bear when she was only three. One of the above is a true story. Either way, though, it’s hard to deny that Ms. Kilcher has her feet soundly ... More About: Country Music , Woman , Stronger
Brad Paisley Added To Grammy Lineup
2008-01-31 16:39:00 Brad Paisley has joined the performance lineup for the Grammys. Speaking of Brad, the Tennessean’s Beverly Keel reports that he’s set to begin working on an instrumental album. Charles Hughes confesses that he’s become something of a Josh Turner fan over the past couple of years and designates “Nowhere Fast”, Turner’s duet with Anthony Hamilton, as the ... More About: Carrie Underwood , Sara Evans , Dierks Bentley , Brad Paisley , Vince Gill
Jason Michael Carroll - ?I Can Sleep When I?m Dead?
2008-01-31 02:25:00 Listening to this song was a rather surreal experience for me, as I?m used to hearing ?I can sleep when I?m dead? from workaholics who are referring to anything but painting up the town. Furthermore, I?m not sure that there isn?t some clash here between the hook and the rest of the song. There are ... More About: Reviews , Michael , Dead , Sleep , Jason Michael Carroll
Songwriting Is What Dolly Loves The Most
2008-01-30 17:47:00 Edd Hurt talked with Dolly Parton about Porter Wagoner, her new album, and her legacy for a piece in American Songwriter. She says throughout her career songwriting is what she has enjoyed the most. Have you ever thought about making a record similar to Porter?s Wagonmaster or Charlie Louvin?s last record, using an outside producer to ... More About: Olly
Album Review: Dailey & Vincent - Dailey & Vincent
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 15:46:00 After collaborating on “Beautiful Star of Bethlem” for a bluegrass Christmas album a few years ago, it couldn’t be stopped; they knew they wanted to work together again and now Jaime Dailey and Darrin Vincent have come together to release their self-titled debut album. Dailey comes to the group by way of Doyle Lawson ... More About: Review , Quicksilver , Album 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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