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Rare Tammy Wynette and Marty Robbins Performances Coming from Shout! Factor
2008-06-01 22:05:00 Shout! Factory has announced an August 19 release date for their newest DVD volumes from their partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Tammy Wynette: Legendary Performances and Marty Robbins: Legendary Performances capture television appearances by the two country greats from throughout their career.Wynette's disc contains performances from her early days on programs like The Bill Anderson Show and The Wilburn Brothers Show right up to her NBC special from 1982. Also included are duets with frequent partner (and ex-husband) George Jones, her Country Music Hall of Fame induction, a vintage interview and film from her marriage ceremony to George Richey (Wynette was married five times). All performances are sequenced in chronological order.Robbins' release goes all the way back to a 1957 appearance on Country Style USA through a 1979 Pop Goes the Country show. His catalog is so immense (83 top forty hits with sixteen number ones) that only a few highlights can...
Kenny Chesney Addresses Controversy In Letter To Fans
2008-05-21 16:53:00 Kenny Chesney addressed the “controversy” (or nontroversy, I’m so clever) over his comments about the Entertainer of the Year award in a letter to his fans on his website. Basically he wants everyone to know he is grateful for the win and support he’s received and he continues to do what he does for you, ...
Afternoon Update - Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, more
2008-05-21 00:44:00 The U.S. House of Representative finally got with the program today and voted May 13, 2008 as Frank Sinatra Day. Too bad they didn't take the vote until May 20. The vote was 402-3. We assume the three no's were the only three that could read a calendar.Whitney Houston's marijuana possession charge stemming from a 2000 incident in Hawaii has been dropped. Shout Factory is preparing two DVD's of classic performances from Tammy Wynette and Marty Robbins. Songs will be taken from such programs as Pop Goes the Country, Town Hall Party and The Bill Anderson Show. Look for them on August 19.David Bowie says that he has NOT given permission for his songs to be used in a musical version of his film The Man Who Fell to Earth. He stated that the rumors were "absolute toss" and he didn't even know the name of the director, Peter Schaufuss. Schaufuss, on the other hand, still claims he has the rights to the songs in his native land of Denmark, but that he might have to change the name...
A Nation?s Affair With Western Culture: The Story of Marty Robbins? ?El Pas
2008-04-11 22:56:00 Born in Glendale, Arizona as Martin David Robison in 1925, Marty Robbins spent his childhood idolizing Gene Autry and the cowboy way. “I wanted to be Gene Autry,” he once said. “I wanted to ride off into the sunset.” His penchant for the the Old West was further fed by romanticized stories told by his ...
Texas Monthly Gets Naked For Special Willie Nelson Cover
2008-04-11 18:25:00 Subscribers of Texas Monthly will receive a copy adorned with a portrait of Willie Nelson on the cover and no text. The preview is pretty flippin’ sweet. Jewel is returning to Nashville Star to join John Rich as a judge and mentor to the contestants. On July 8 George Jones will release Burn Your Playhouse Down (The ...
Marty Robbins?Seems Like Yesterday
2008-03-23 16:48:00 I was at my folks’ house in Nashville at the end of the week and they’d Tivo’s Marty Robbins–Seems Like Yesterday on PBS. If you have any doubt about how prolific and talented Marty Robbins was, you need to check this out. My mom couldn’t believe that he was singing live in all of the ...
Songs About Prisoners Waitin? Around To Die
2008-03-06 15:18:00 Country Music is concerned with topics like life and death, sin and salvation, and the experience of the outsider and the lower classes. It should come as no surprise then that many fine country songs feature prisoners waiting to die. Here are 10 of the finest. 10. “They?re Hanging Me Tonight” - Johnny ...
20 Top War and Soldier Songs
2007-10-01 18:13:00 War. It is the central issue of contemporary American political debate. It is also an unfortunate and deeply personal part of the American culture. War affects the way we see our place in the world, our duty to our nation, and our role within our communities. It can bond families in solidarity and it can ...
Texas National Anthem Voting
2007-09-21 18:39:00 Patrick at ThisIsTexasMusic has an article about Lone Star beer’s contest to select an unofficial National Anthem of Texas. He has all the nominees listed on his site, but I figured I’d pick out a few of my favorites of the classics. I’m not a Texan, so I don’t know if my vote counts.. Waltz Across Texas ...
Mr. Shorty ? Marty Robbins
2007-09-09 16:18:00 This is one of my all time favorite story songs. The cool thing about Marty Robbins’s story songs is that they all sound just like western movies. In this one, a small cowboy is getting picked on in a saloon by another cowboy who insists on calling him “Shorty”. “Shorty” informs the man quickly that ...
Preview ?Close Up The Honky Tonks? From Dwight Sings Buck
2007-08-13 17:14:00 Think about the most exciting act you’ve ever seen perform live; who was it? Hazel Smith says for her it was Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys. Acuff would be twirling his fiddle bow as Bashful Brother Oswald bellowed a hee-haw as he made his Dobro scream. Onie Wheeler would honk that harmonica and belt ...
Marty Robbins ? Big Iron
2007-06-22 22:13:00 Marty Robbins had a ton of great story songs about the old west. They sound like the screenplays for (really good) western movies, but his incredible voice makes them. Even though El Paso was probably a bigger hit for him, “Big Iron” is the song that made me a die hard Marty Robbins Fan. Ironically, I’d ...
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 ...
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
2006-12-20 22:53:02 Country singer Marty Robbins recorded many different kinds of music in his career, from rock & roll to Hawaiian love songs, but it’s with this collection (particularly with the hit song “El Paso”) that he is most remembered. This beautifully remastered 1960 album is a combination of traditional songs and Robbins’ originals, all with themes [...] |
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