Son Volt will return this summer with a new album and new label. "American Central Dust," the band's sixth full-length and its first since signing with Rounder Records, will be released on July 7. The band will be hitting the road in July touring the west coast. This will be a double-bill with The Cowboy [...]
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Here's a video done during Biram's recent European tour (hereafter called the "I Broke My Damn Leg Tour.") This fine cut is entitled Sinkin' Down and shows how Biram is really starting to grow as a musician and not just a crazy-ass blues hillbilly. It's from his new forthcoming Bloodshot Records album entitled Something's Wrong/Lost [...]
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Fans of gritty, sun drenched tales from the road rejoice! Texas/New Mexico neo-trad troubadour Ryan Bingham and his band The Dead Horses (Corby Schaub - guitar, Matt Smith - drums, Elijah Ford - bass) are readying Roadhouse Sun his sophomore release from Lost Highway records to be released on May 5. Roadhouse Sun is a [...]
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Paste Magazine used to trend more toward No Depression Americana coverage than Spin-style indy-pop coverage that they've moved toward over the last couple of years. This may explain what they're still in print and No Depression isn't. But Paste has not forsaken the twang altogether. Paste's Andy Whitman does a round-up of three alt.country releases [...]
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Radio again shows it's short-sightedness and it's allegiance to money over music or fans. Los Angeles' terrestrial radio station Indie 103.1 has unceremoniously canceled the roots/Americana music focused "Watusi Rodeo" show. The show was hosted for nearly three years, their anniversary broadcast would have aired Sunday, Dec. 7, by Chris Morris. "Watusi Rodeo" was just [...]
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The Charlie Daniels Band will perform at the Mother Church of Country Music - Nashville's Ryman Auditorium - for the 12th Christmas For Kids benefit concert with Montgomery Gentry, Phil Vassar, Rodney Atkins, and Heidi Newfield. The concert is November 24th and will begin at 7:00 PM and proceeds from the event will go to [...]
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It seems that it's New York Times day at Ranch Twang; the paper features a nice write up on legendary singer/songwriter John Hiatt whom they talked to just before he shared the stage with Lyle Lovett in Greenville, South Carolina. Is McCain supporter John Rich, the shorter, and more homophobic half of Country Music comedy duo [...]
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New York based Gothic/Country/Punk band O'Death are named after the Dock Boggs penned song made famous by Ralph Stanley on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Like that hauntingly plaintive Appalachian dirge "Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin," the third LP from O'Death, 14 tracks relect tales of sorrow and ecstasy nearly reaching levels of [...]ShareThis
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Christmas is not too far away, and the perfect gift for your Country Music aficionado (ah hem) is the Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Show Deluxe Box Set. This Legacy Edition will feature a 2CD/1 DVD will feature the entire two Cash 1968 concerts from the California prison, totaling in 31 previously-unreleased tracks, including songs like [...]ShareThis
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Hank III discusses making his new release “Damn Right Rebel Proud” (October 21, Curb Records)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKd2UPiSsWcShareThis
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As well as being the birthday of George Jones, Sept. 12th is also the shared date of the death of a country legend, Johnny Cash. RIP J.R., there will never be another like you. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - 1959 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_faH4hFwB0ShareThis
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Saratoga, Texas' (but broUght up in Vidor) very own George Glenn Jones (AKA the Possum) is a living embodiment of country music. Jones' bouts with the demon rum led to periods where Jones was too incapacitated to play shows and was branded "No Show Jones." When his second wife, Shirley Ann Corley, hid the keys to every [...]ShareThis
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