I learned yesterday from a post on Twitter by Austin singer/songwriter Kelly Willis alerted me that Austin native fiddle player Amy Farris had been found dead at her residence in Los Angeles at the age of 40. Suicide is suspected, but an investigation is currently underway. Farris was a talented fiddle player and had recently [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Taylor Swift Attends Miranda Lamber...
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The Wall Street Journal talks to roots rocker John Fogerty (John Fogerty Twangs Again) about the dissolution of his old band Creedence Clearwater Revival, the role country music played in shaping his sound, and his new release The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again.The 9513.com finds good things in the tough love of Miranda Lambert’s Revolution.Gillian [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Taylor Swift.
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The Los Angeles Times features a cool story on the Roots on Rails travel program organized by the Vermont-based Flying Under Radar travel service. This feature focuses on a train ride through the Southwest presenting Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock (AKA The Flatlanders) and Dave Alvin. Guests pay to travel with the artists [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Patty Griffin & Bruce Robison
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Tune in tomorrow night to catch Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill perform together Wednesday’s Jay Leno Show. The pair on the West Coast participating in a series of All For the Hall benefit shows. Proceeds from the all-start line up, which also includes Melissa Etheridge, Dwight Yoakam, Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Faith Hill and Taylor [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Taylor Swift Attends Miranda .
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Chico California’s NewsReview.com features a brief interview with local resident Merle Haggard.Whitney Self at the CMT.com blog details the story behind Kris Kristofferson’s most famous hit and its Italian cinematic motivation.See him perform this and more on Studio 330 Sessions.More on Kristofferson – ABC’s Good Morning America’s Weekend Drive cruises around Nashville with the man [...]
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Vince Vaughn is not only hilarious, and tall, but he loves country music. Or is it Americana music…hell I can’ keep up.The Americana extravaganza that is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is next weekend people. John Prine, Lyle Lovett, Boz Scaggs, Steve Earle, Ricky Scaggs, Gillian Welch, Booker T and the Drive By Truckers as his backing [...]Related posts:Pop Matters Features Miranda LambertMiranda
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William Michael Smith’s latest Houston Press column Lonesome Onry and Mean finds kinship and flattering things to say about the new releases from Texas songwriting legends Guy Clark and Kris Kristofferson.Patty Loveless honors legendary songwriter Harlan Howard at the ACM Honors in Nashville Tuesday night. (CMT.com)Of you tweet between 9/23-9/28 with @theavettbros and #Avett in [...]Related po
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You know Americana as a genre has arrived when not only do they have their own Grammy category (or is that the death knell?) but also the Americana Music Conference is written up in the Wall Street Journal, Paste Magazine and CMT.com. With great power…When in Nashville I always find time to visit the Country [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Rosanne Cash to Perform “The List” LiveNews Round
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I’m baaaack. So if you’ve been keeping up with my tweets, or just reading the news, you know the 10th Annual Americana Association Conference and Festival in Nashville last week was quite a shin-dig. I missed goodBBQ and that laid-back Southern charm and although the conference attendance seemed to be down a bit (well, a [...]Related posts:Americana Music Association Partners with the Nashvi
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I discovered the Drive By Truckers while an ex-pat Texan living in New York City. The environment that I has always known, and taken for granted, was replaced by something foreign and I was looking for cultural footing to make me feel “at home” but also to reflect my learned redneck attitude, a new framework [...]Related posts:Drive By Truckers’ The Fine Print CoverDrive By Truckers Ready Od
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Scottish-Canadian country singer Johnny Reid was in the running for six awards, including Album of the Year for his latest release Dance With Me.The singer took home five trophies including Album, Songwriter, Video and Male Artist of the Year from the Canadian Country Music Awards. Dean Brody won Single of the Year for Brothers, Crystal [...]Related posts:Texas Monthly Features Five Texas Music...
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Has the monetary success of Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson allowed mainstream Nashvegas artists, Like Tim McGraw, to explore their dark side? (Country's Raw Side: Don't Like It? Tough! - New York Times) The 9513's Matt Griffin draws comparisons to Levon Helm's newest release, Electric Dirt, and Johnny Cash's latter career reviving American Recordings. The Academy [...] Related pos...
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For a man in his 70s Willie Nelson is showing no signs of slowing down. The Texas Yoda is reportedly working with producer T Bone Burnett (O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line soundtracks, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant – Raising Sand, Elvis Costello’ s - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane and much more) [...]Related posts:Willie Nelson Twitter InterviewElvis Costello and T Bone Burnett R
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Don Gibson’s 1961 song was more syrupy pop that was the style in the Nashville Sound era of Music Row. Sea of Heartbreak has been gone on to be covered with anticipated schmaltz by Anne Murray and by Jimmy Buffett (complete [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Rosanne Cash to Perform “The List” LiveTom Russell – Santa
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Anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I’m a huge fan of Tom Russell. L.A. born with a degree in criminology from the U of California, Russell also taught school in Nigeria during the Biafran War. He began his musical career in the early 70’s in Vancouver BC playing strip bars. He later drove [...]Related posts:Tom Russell Blogs on New ReleaseTom Russell and Gretchen Peters to Relea
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PopMatters.com has Juli Thanki’s newest Torch & Twang post (Louisiana Woman, Texas Troubadour) Thanki bypasses the standard view that Loretta Lynn’s best duet partner was Conway Twitty and makes her case for Ernest Tubb.Best Buy is offering an exclusive EP from Miranda Lambert today which includes her new single “ Dead Flowers” from her upcoming [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Patty
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It's Labor Day and I just finished watching Billy Bob Thorton's contemporary Southern Gothic film Slingblade, so I believe I'm in the perfect frame of mind to review a Chris Knight album. Knight storytelling style reflects John Prine (who he studied when learning the craft of songwriting) and Steve Earle (who he's most often inaccurately compared [...]
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Labor Day originated in Canada from labor unions fighting for a nine-house work day. The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City as a result of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the US military and US Marshals during the [...] Related posts:Glen Campbell Talks RetirementHard TimesHappy Birthday Johnny Cash
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Hey Bay Area twang fans! The San Francisco Weekly features a story on Joe Goldmark and the Seducers and their ongoing Sunday night residency at the Outer Sunset bar Riptide which bills itself as “the Bay Area’s best little honky-tonk.”The Salt Lake Tribune sits down with legendary Texas songer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen.Aquarium Drunkard sits down [...]Related posts:Jerry Lee Lewis – Last
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The line-up for Cross Canadian Ragweed’s 4th Annual Red Dirt Roundup has been announce, and the roster is filled with names that make any Texas music lover proud – CCR, Charlie Robison, Robert Earl Keen, Johnny Cooper, The Gourds as well as the alt rock of The Wallflowers. The festival will be held on two [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Willie Twitters & A New Langhorne Slim DownloadWillie
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