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John Hiatt Joins Lofty Company With AMA Lifetime Achievement Award For Song
2008-04-25 18:09:00 The Americana Music Association announced yesterday that John Hiatt will receive their lifetime achievement award for songwriting, which will be presented to him during the Sept. 18 awards show at the Ryman Auditorium. Past winners include Willie Nelson, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Cowboy Jack Clement, John Prine and Billy Joe Shaver. Aside from his forthcoming album, ...
Aaron Watson Believes In The Good Ol? Boy Business Model
2008-03-20 16:38:00 Aaron Watson talked to Lynne Margolis about where he got the nickname Honky-tonk Kid, how he got hooked up with Ray Benson and the relationship he has with him, and about how he separates time between the road and home. His upcoming album will have a John Mayer song, a Waylon song titled “Tulsa,” and ...
Jason Boland and Aaron Watson Team Up for Texas Tour
2008-03-11 17:00:00 Score 1 for the traditional country fans in Texas. Jason Boland and Aaron Watson announced they’ll be joining forces for a tour across the Lone Star State starting in April. While discussing past magazine ideas, No Depression’s Grant Alden mentions the issue with Miranda Lambert on the cover was, to the best of his knowledge, ...
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 ...
Drive By Truckers Album, Brighter Than Creation?s Dark, Steps Into the Ligh
2008-01-22 17:14:00 The new Drive By Truckers’ album is a whopping 74 minutes long, and the Houston Chronicle’s Andrew Dansby says even that is after a trim. Joshua Klein suggests that the 19-song Brighter Than Creation’s Dark may be the band’s strongest record in his in-depth interview with the band for Pitchfork Media. Mark Cuban emphatically declares the ...
Billy Joe Shaver ?No Fool Like an Old Fool?
2007-10-28 01:00:00 Billy Joe Shaver is perhaps my favorite country singer/songwriter. Here's a great performance of his that he did for the Corporate Country Sucks TV show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com-/watch?v=X3ybRH3IyYA[/youtube]- Billy Joe Shaver has been a fixture in the outlaw and alternative country scene since the 70's when he wrote songs for Waylon Jennings and many ...
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Jackson Taylor - ?Lonely?
2007-10-25 23:40:00 Jackson Taylor’s debut label album, Dark Days, was released awhile ago, September 11 to be exact, and the first single off that album, “Lonely,” has been climbing the Texas Music Charts in the time since, making its way up to the thirteenth spot this week. If you’re curious as to what kind of music it is ...
Gary Allan Divulges Songwriting Tip From Harlan Howard
2007-10-24 19:24:00 Chet Flippo gives kudos to Beverly Keel for her open letter to Jessica Simpson, questions her role in the dreadful interpretation of Dukes of Hazzard for the big screen, and has a few words for those singers from other genres who seem to always show up and proclaim that they’ve always been country. One of the ...
Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, & Barbara Mandrell Inducted Into Music City Wal
2007-10-12 18:09:00 I’ve posted a number of interviews with Billy Joe Shaver and I may be a little biased, but I think the interview that Brady scored for The 9513 is the best yet. I was giddy like a school girl when he walked next door to Waterloo Records and played me the recording. On November 20 Time ...
A Prophet in Cowboy Boots: An Interview with Billy Joe Shaver
2007-10-11 23:59:00 I recently had the opportunity to interview Billy Joe Shaver for The 9513 when he was in town promoting his new album, Everybody’s Brother. First off, I would like to thank Cassie and Logan over at Compadre Records for setting this up for us and a thanks is due to Billy Joe for taking time ...
Tune In To GAC and Celebrate Opry Month
2007-10-09 17:23:00 Another day, another Ashton Shepherd story. Music Remedy received a unique preview of her debut album: Blink and you might miss tiny Leroy, Alabama, but if your ears are open, you just might hear it. The pure, clear, country voice of Ashton Shepherd lilts through the evening air in Leroy from a place called The Pickin? ...
Sara Evans? Divorce Finalized
2007-10-01 16:21:00 Keith Urban is believed to have been in a motorcycle accident near his home in Sydney after being followed by paparazzi. Fortunately he’s been reported to be uninjured by the crash. Steve Terrell says “the original 1973 version of Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends, and Lies ranks right up there with Willie Nelson?s Phases and Stages, ...
September ?07 Album Review Wrap-Up
2007-10-01 02:02:00 Due to time constraints we don’t get to give a proper review to every album we would like to, so we decided to begin a weekly wrap-up of the albums we’ve had a chance to listen to along with our brief opinion and a rating. We’re kicking off this feature with a list of albums ...
Catch Dolly Parton On Dancing With The Stars Tonight
2007-09-26 16:21:00 Amazon unleashed their mp3 download store yesterday. The difference between it and iTunes? Amazon’s tracks are unencumbered by DRM and are priced at 89 cents. The same DRM free tracks on iTunes would run you $1.29, while DRM laden tracks go for 99 cents. For now, only EMI and Universal have made their catalogs available ...
Help Lonestar Beer Pick A New Unofficial ?National Anthem of Texas?
2007-09-19 16:20:00 Out of all the songs he’s written, the music he’s made, and the few movies he’s performed in Lyle Lovett says his greatest joy and accomplishment is rescuing the land that his family sold to developers in the ’80s. Two police officers have been fired and may spend up to a year in jail after they ...
Country Singer Sammy Kershaw Throws His Hat Into Political Race
2007-09-06 16:48:00 The next lieutenant governor of Louisiana just might be country singer Sammy Kershaw. He officially entered the race yesterday as the Republican candidate. Faith Hill appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday and talked about The Incident. You know, the one where a fan groped Tim McGraw and she chastised the fan from the stage. “I ...
Jamie Foxx Tests Country Music Waters On New Rascal Flatts Album
2007-08-23 16:52:00 While searching for a location to shoot their new video, Randy Kohrs and his crew stumbled upon the perfect abandoned house with a for sale sign. Filming went smoothly… until it was time to leave: Leaving the place actually cleaner than when they arrived, the band members began to drive off of the property, a mere ...
Superstar Singer Joins NFL Team?s Practice Squad
2007-08-16 17:48:00 You’ll never believe who the newest workout partner for the New Orleans Saints is — Kenny Chesney, if only for a day. He’ll be suiting up to run through drills with the team on August 17th, the day before their pre-season game with the Bengals. You got to wonder what Peyton Manning thinks about all ...
Today Marks The Debut Of Johnny Cash Dot Com Radio
2007-06-13 22:08:00 The CMA Music Festival set a record for attendance. Climbing steadily each year, it peaked at 191,154 people this year. Country Standard Time has a track listing for the Billy Joe Shaver gospel album, Everybody’s Brother, due out on August 7th. Can’t wait. Kellie Pickler talks to People magazine about her hockey flame, Tootoo. The two met ...
Merle Haggard And Billy Joe Shaver Have New Albums In The Pipes
2007-05-18 15:57:00 A Fredericksburg promoter’s attempt to revive a lawsuit against Merle Haggard has been shot down by the 4th Court of Appeals because she missed the deadline to appeal the suit’s dismissal. Kathy Schroeder is suing Haggard over a concert he failed to appear at in 2001 due to an illness, which she is challenging as ...
Billy Joe Shaver Rivals For The Title Of Greatest Country Music Pistolero
2007-04-20 15:34:00 James Kelly brought up the issue of “young vs. old” and “new vs. traditional” at the Opry in a piece titled “Are Country Legends too Old to Cut the Mustard?” He cites artists like Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson who have taken creative chances to create a resurgence in their careers while other like Stonewall ...
Roundup: The Billy Joe Shaver Shooting Edition
2007-04-04 23:34:00 I’ve found recent shooting involving Billy Joe Shaver particularly interesting and have thus been following it very closely. There’s still a lot of mystery and questions to be sorted out, and maybe we will never know the full truth about what exactly happened, but I thought I’d go through and try to piece together everything ...
Billy Joe Shaver Greatest Hits Release Show At Waterloo Records: Touched By
2007-04-04 03:43:00 Waterloo Records is a fairly large record store, but makes for a cramped venue when you consider all of the floor space that merchandise takes up. Billy Joe Shaver and his band were perched on a miniature stage at the front window with fans crowded around and spilling over into the aisles. When I ...
Billy Joe Shaver Charged In Shooting Incident And Marty Robbins To Be Honor
2007-04-03 15:23:00 Austin360 republished a great article that pretty much details Billy Joe Shaver’s book and offers a couple of scenarios that weren’t discussed at all during the book. If you ever have occasion to sit a spell with Shaver, ask him about his prankish habit of writing letter grades on Townes Van Zandt’s lyric sheets when his ...
Billy Joe Shaver ?Connected? To Shooting And Dolly Parton Fantasizes About
2007-04-02 15:22:00 Billy Joe Shaver has been linked to a shooting at a bar in the suburbs of his hometown, Waco. After reading the article I don’t see where the connection is being made. Everyone involved in the case is being hush-hush about the details. It could be that Shaver was merely present at the bar where ... |
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