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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, ...
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 ...
Townes Van Zandt
2008-02-10 20:42:00 Townes Van Zandt El Trovador De Texas Townes Van Zandt nació en Forth Worth, Texas en 1944. Miembro de una importante familia Texana e hijo de un magnate del petróleo su vida discurriría por un camino muy distinto del que se había definido para el, hasta convertirse en una de las figuras mas importantes de la cultura ...
Waiting Around To Die
2008-02-05 12:20:00 Revisando conversaciones antiguas de nuestro foro me encontré con este hilo de “Videos Raros” en el que comentábamos viejos vídeos de músicos de los 60 y 70 difíciles de encontrar. Uno de nuestros amigos nos presento este vídeo de Townes Van Zandt interpretando el clásico “Waiting Around To Die” y como estoy preparando una revisión he ...
Waiting Around To Die
2008-02-05 12:20:00 Revisando conversaciones antiguas de nuestro foro me encontré con este hilo de “Videos Raros” en el que comentábamos viejos vídeos de músicos de los 60 y 70 difíciles de encontrar. Uno de nuestros amigos nos presento este vídeo de Townes Van Zandt interpretando el clásico “Waiting Around To Die” y como estoy preparando una revisión he ...
George Strait To Kick Off 2008 Tour In Austin Tonight
2008-01-10 17:29:00 Austin360’s John T. David lists eight things you will never hear George Strait say. My favorite is: ‘TMZ wants to film me working my cutting horses.’ Go read the others and see if you can come up with any good ones of your own. The Dreamtime blog did some research and pieced together different aspects of the unfinished ...
?It?s the music of what I do and how I live? - Michael Martin Murphey
2007-12-14 17:01:00 Roger Holland posted his in-depth “The Best Country Music of 2007″ list at PopMatters. These top ten lists are like finger prints, no two are exactly alike, but I learned a few interesting tidbits from Mr. Holland’s comments. As of December 4th, thirty-four of Anne Murray’s original recordings have been available digitally. Doug Freeman gives a brief ...
Patty Griffin Scores Two Awards At AMAs
2007-11-02 16:00:00 Merle Haggard’s latest album, The Bluegrass Sessions, “was produced by a bluegrass musician with bluegrass musicians, recorded at a bluegrass studio, released on a bluegrass label, racked under bluegrass in record stores, aired on bluegrass radio, covered by the bluegrass press, and it’s currently in it’s fourth consecutive week at # 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass ...
Townes Van Zandt To Be Awarded The President?s Award At AMA
2007-09-12 18:37:00 Before you go out and buy The Great Lost Performance from Johnny Cash that was recently released, head over to Twangville and see what they have to say about the album. This release is billed as The Great Lost Performance, but I?m not sure I?d go that far. It is a rollicking good time but ...
Daily Digs: Babes In Toyland, The Pipettes, Townes Van Zandt & More?
2007-07-26 20:08:00 Indie rock adorns this post of ‘Daily Digs’ with choice selections from Arab Strap, Band Of Horses, Now It’s Overhead, The Pipettes & several more. Also worthy of investigation, ‘A Few Old Tunes, Vol. 1 & 2′ are the early controversial tapes from Boards Of Canada, which have never been publically released (or even acknowledged) ...
?They?re just songs. It?s not brain surgery.? - Guy Clark
2007-06-22 16:02:00 Mark Adams has an in depth review of To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth. Throughout most of the article Adams refers to the author as Knuth, if you can get passed that it sounds like the book is an interesting read. Knuth clearly has good material ...
Authenticty Is The Deciding Factor In The Future Of Country Music
2007-06-01 16:27:00 John Goodspeed writes that the reason Miranda Lambert’s single “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was pulled from radio was because “radio programmers couldn’t quite get their heads around a song about an angry, pistol-packing ex confronting her former boyfriend and his new babe.” The Austin Chronicle has a couple of book reviews. The first Public Cowboy No. 1: The ...
Birthday Giveaway: Townes Van Zandt
2007-03-07 17:41:09 Nobody can deny that Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on numerous artists and genres, even after he was gone, which is illustrated by the fact that at least six Townes Van Zandt albums were released last year and three thus far this year. He was born March 7, 1944 and in celebration of his birthday and impact on the country music genre we’re giving away two songs to anyone who comments on this post before March 8. Choose one song from each list below, leave a comment using a valid email telling us which two you’d like, and we’ll send you your choices on the eighth. Townes Van Zandt - Covers Pancho & Lefty - Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard Tecumseh Valley - Steve Earl If I Needed You - Lyle Lovett Rex’s Blues - Son Volt To Live Is To Fly - Guy Clark I’ll Be Here In The Morning - Jerry Jeff Walker White Freightliner Blues - Billy Joe Shaver Snake Song - Emmylou Harris Bluye Wind Blew - The Flatlanders Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold - Robert Earl ... |
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