In movies, country music is flashy Nudie suits, thick accents and troubled childhoods. In Nashville, it’s barrooms, cash cows and demo tapes by the dozen. In pop music circles, it’s hokey, old-fashioned and the quintessential line “I like all music…but country.”Country music can arguably be all (or none) of these things, but they still don’t [...]
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Your Take: What Is Country Music?
Corb Lund Hooks Up With New West Records
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Canadian singer-songwriter Corb Lund singed a deal with New West Records and plans to release a new album this fall. A tribute to steel-guitarist Don Helms will be held in Nashville on March 8 and will feature performances from Ray Price and Bobby Bare. (via Country Weekly) Dailey & Vincent scored six awards at the 35th Annual [...]
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Album Review: Jake Owen - Easy Does It
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Jake Owen burst on to the scene, in 2006, as a founding member of the frat boy movement of new male country artists, alongside fellow pledges Eric Church, Jason Michael Carroll, and Luke Bryan. With perfectly groomed hair and just enough stubble to prove their manliness, these guys provide bar-friendly music with a tinge of [...]
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Celluloid Country: Pure Country, Starring George Strait & Lesley Ann Warren
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George Strait has a lot going for him: stage presence, rugged good looks, and a great voice. So giving him a fake ponytail and making him the star of a country music movie should be a surefire hit, right? Not when you've got an average script, average actors, and a plot line that can be [...]
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Rascal Flatts Sued for Copyright Infringement; Pleads Trite
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Sugarland isn't the only country group amidst a lawsuit at the moment. Everyone's favorite trio, Rascal Flatts, was named in a suit by a songwriter from New York for copyright infringement. Joe Don Rooney's lawyers defended the song, saying: "To the extent that 'No Reins' shares any similarities with the plaintiff's alleged copyrighted work, any such [...]
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Forgotten Artists: Narvel Felts
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Give Me The Beat Boys and Free My Soul I Want To Get Lost In Your Country Song And Drift Away Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in Memphis had quite a coterie of performers during the mid 1950s: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Harold Lloyd Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty), Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Carl Mann, Warren Smith, [...]
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Jamie O’Neal Readies Two New Albums: The 9513’s Exclusive Interview
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Artist:Jamie O’Neal
It's been almost a decade since Jamie O'Neal's career was at its zenith-a zenith which was also its starting point. O'Neal's 2000 debut album Shiver rose to Gold status on the strength of two #1 singles, "There Is No Arizona" and "When I Think About Angels." Five years after her debut, O'Neal reemerged with her [...]
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Brad Paisley and Heidi Newfield Dominate ACM Nominations
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Ladies and gentleman, your 44th annual Academy of Country Music Awards nominees. (Visit the link for full list.) Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney | Brad Paisley | George Strait | Carrie Underwood | Keith Urban Top Male Vocalist Kenny Chesney | Toby Keith | Brad Paisley | George Strait | Keith Urban Top Female Vocalist Miranda Lambert | Heidi Newfield [...]
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Free Music: Willie and The Wheel
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Artist:Willie and the Wheel
The free music keeps on rolling here at The 9513 with Willie and the Wheel, the brand new collaboration between Willie Nelson and Western Swing icon Asleep at the Wheel. Today you have a chace to win the album that earned The 9513's first 5-star review of 2009. "It's a music lover's dream. … not [...]
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Album Review: Steve Martin - The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo
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Aside from being one of the greatest comedic actors of our generation, an author, renowned art collector, and a playwright, Steve Martin is also a helluva banjo player with over four decades of experience under his belt. During his time as a teenage picker, he began a lifelong friendship with John McEuen, who would later [...]
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Bomshel - “Fight Like A Girl”
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Someone could make a killing with a song like this, a celebration of female strength structured around one woman's three-part story: young girl gets some parental advice on how to deal with hurt, young woman applies advice to adult problems, and-finally-middle-aged woman draws comfort from advice as she comes face to face with mortality. In fact, [...]
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Haggard & Kristofferson Schedule First Ever Performances Together
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Album:El Viejo Almacen: Tangos
Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson will be performing together for the first time ever come April. That doesn't seem possible, but Twang Nation lists the three dates, all on the west coast, for the special acoustic performances. Zalman King, a director for the '90s erotic and drama series Red Shoe Diaries, is in talks to film [...]
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Trade Adkins - “Marry For Money”
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Songwriters: Dave Turnbull and Jimmy Melton. Forget buyouts, buy-backs or bailouts: Trace Adkins has come up with possibly the ultimate economic stimulus plan. "Marry for Money," Adkins' second single off his eighth studio album X, proves the singer was paying attention during his successful stint on "The Celebrity Apprentice"-or at least to the huge divorce settlements creator [...]
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MySpace Music Premiers Dierks Bentley’s ‘Feel That Fire’
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MySpace Music is premiering the new Dierks Bentley album Feel That Fire today — five days before its official release date. (via NashvilleGab) Hillary Scott insists that the new awards darlings, Lady Antebellum, were not behind the breakup of The Wreckers, despite Dave Haywood's notions to the contrary. Keith Urban scored a sponsorship from KC Masterpiece Barbecue [...]
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Carrie Underwood - “I Told You So”
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Leading up to the release of Carrie Underwood's sophomore album, Carnival Ride, it was lauded as having a "more country" sound than her debut. Her cover of Randy Travis' "I Told You" surely played a part in those proclamations and when the steel guitar weaves throughout the song, it might superficially sound that way, [...]
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Album Review: Chatham County Line - Chatham County Line
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After several years out of print, Chatham County Line's 2003 self-titled debut is finally being reissued, now on Yep Roc Records. While the Raleigh, North Carolina quartet has recently become a Newgrass/Alt-Country mover and shaker with its outstanding 2008 release IV, the band's first record finds the group at its most traditional. Chatham County Line sets [...]
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Merle Haggard Sues The Green Train
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Album:El Viejo Almacen: Tangos
Merle Haggard filed a lawsuit against The Green Train, an environmental awareness group, claiming that they forged his signature and exaggerated his involvement with the organization to solicit money. Country California's C.M. Wilcox on Carrie Underwood's selection of Randy Travis' "I Told You So" as her next single: I don't think that something has to be country [...]
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Trent Tomlinson – “That’s How It Still Oughta Be”
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Songwriters: Trent Tomlinson, Jim Collins and Tom Shapiro. For a song that waxes nostalgic on the good old days of yesteryear to be successful, it should probably be sung by someone who grew up in a decade prior to the 1980's. That rule of thumb would disqualify thirty-something Trent Tomlinson from preaching "That's How It Still [...]
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Introducing Minnie Murphy: A Little Bit of Country With a Whole Lot of Soul
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"I'm new at interviews," says Minnie Murphy, as she shuffles through a stack of notes prepared prior to our December talk. "I get a little nervous." It's understandable, really, considering that this naturally contemplative 24 year-old Montage singer/songwriter, who comes across as enormously shy in conversation, is only beginning to get her first taste of [...]
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Miss Leslie Resolves to Have More People Hear Her Music
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Artist:Miss Leslie
One of Miss Leslie's resolutions this year is to get more people to hear her music. If you send her your email address via her MySpace page or official website, she'll ship you an autographed copy of Between the Whiskey and the Wine-an album The Houston Chronicle named as one of the best local releases [...]
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