The Possum will be all over the place this month in support of his exclusive new release with Cracker Barrel A Collection Of My Best Recollection. George Jones is set to appear on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday, September 9th, and on Friday, September 11th will perform on NBC’s Late Night with [...]Related posts:George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Golden RingHappy Birthday Georg
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I chimed in the chorus of the WTF! when Deadwood was prematurely deep-sixed by HBO in August 2006 and finally lost hope after following the Internet rumors of the back and forth between the HBO brass and the series creator David Milch. I now believe that Milch did everything he could to save the series, [...]Related posts:Deadwood Complete Series – December 9, 2008Deadwood NewsNews Round Up: P
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Rosanne Cash will perform her new release, The List, live at WNYC, New York on 9/23. The List is a collection of classic country songs culled from a list of 100 songs her father, Johnny Cash, insisted she had to learn. MadeLoud.com has a great interview with Nashville-based Americana chanteuse Caitlin Rose about her influences and [...]
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The Americana Music Association (AMA) will partner with the Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) to present two premiere screenings during the 10th Annual Americana Music Festival and Conference, September 16-19, 2009 in Nashville.“Americana on Film” will take place at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Ford Theatre and include screenings of Behind the Confessions: [...]Related posts:American
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With all the recent high-profile celebrity and political deaths it completely escaped me that one of my favorite authors, Elmer Kelton, had died on August 22, 2009 of pre-leukemia in San Angelo, Tex. Kelton wrote award-winning western novels about real people in real hard times.The 9513.com features an excellent piece on singer/songwriter Radney Foster and [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Patt...
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Anybody that’s read this blog for more than five minutes knows that the style of country music that I champion is typically not represented on the flavor of the week “country” charts. I’m not in the business of puffing up entertainers that have more in common with REO Speedwagon than Hank Williams and my M.O., [...]Related posts:The New York Times Reviews George StraitNo Depression Relea
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PopMatters.cam has 20 questions for Austin’s neo-trad honky-tonker Wayne “The Train” Hancock.Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, ia a new comic book/graphic novel by Abrams ComicArts based on the life of Johnny Cash. It will be available in November. (thanks to the 9513.com and That Nashville Sound)San Jose Mercury News is just one of many [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Willie Twitters & A New
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Country Rapper, Colt Ford,tweeted (twittered?) that he “… sat down today with DMC from the Iconic Group RUN-DMC. We are gonna do a song together. He is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Wow.” I hope Colt Ford can do for country/rap what RUN-DMC and Aerosmith did for rock/rap…oh wait. (Twang Nation review [...]Related posts:Interview with Allison MoorerNews Round Up: Willie Twitters & A New
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Check out the “twitterview” – a cute way of describing an interview conducted on twitter - between TheBoot.com and Willie Nelson as was gearing up for his MySpace free secret concert in Maui, Hawaii.Speaking of the twitterverse (yeah, I’m gonna get mileage out of this), Charlie Robison won’t have to travel far to play a [...]Related posts:News Round Up: Patty Griffin & Bruce Robison
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Dolly Parton will be on hand for the 75th Anniversary Rededication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park on September 2nd, joining Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue and several other dignitaries. Dolly serves as Ambassador for the Park’s 75th Anniversary, she is a Sevierville, Tennessee native and donated the first year profits [...]Related posts:Dolly Parto
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One of the forebearers of the old school alt.country work ethic of play hard, play often, and play well.The Bottle Rockets still contain the DNA of thier earlier incarnation of Chicken Truck, a straight up honky-tonk band that preceded the Rockets, and from their relationship with Uncle Tupelo in the 90’s. But while many of [...]Related posts:Zoysia – the new CD from The Bottle RocketsBottle R
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Canada.com posts a feature on the upcoming album of classics by Willie Nelson, American Classic – Willie Nelson returns to ‘the good songs’ (release 8/25)The New York Times also features a piece on Willie Nelson’s American Classic.The Boston Herald posts a feature on honky-tonk neo-traditionalist Paul Burch- Looking for authentic country soul? Burch is ‘Still [...]Related posts:New Relea
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Willie Nelson will join TheBoot.com for a live “Twitterview” next Tuesday, Aug. 25, the same day as the release of his newest album American Classic. You can watch the live chat with Willie, starting at 7:00 PM ET on Tuesday, if you follow Willie Nelson and theBoot.com on Twitter.Speaking of the Texas Yoda, The L.A. [...]Related posts:Willie Nelson Premieres New Video for Shoeshine ManWillie
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The Green Bay Press Gazette has a great interview with Justin Townes Earle. Earle talks candidly about his past addictions and is troubled relationship with his father. as well as his excellent new release Midnight at the Movies. Robert Earl Keen's Lost Highway debut "The Rose Hotel," produced by Lloyd Maines, will be released on On [...] Related posts:John Doe and The Sadies Collaborate fo...
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AOL’s Spinner has a nice feature on the lovely, but messy, honky-tonk riot-grrrls Those Darlins.The Onion’s AV Club “head writer and hip-hop specialist” Nathan Rabin continues his discovery of Country Music in his Nashville or Bust feature. The newest post is a nice historic summary of Americana chanteuse and Gram Parson protege Emmylou Harris. [...]Related posts:Emmylou Harris NewsPitc
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George Jones will be releasing a CD through Cracker Barrel restaurants entitled A Collection Of My Best Recollection. The exclusive release will feature 12 tracks of The Possum's most memorable songs, including White Lightning Finally Friday and of course, He Stopped Lovin' Her Today. The CD will also include two songs that have never been [...] Related posts:Happy Birthday George Jones!Tex...
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Lightning Rod Records will release James McMurtry – Live in Europe on October 13, 2009. The albim will document McMurtry’s first European tour, In early 2009 McMurtry and his band traveled overseas to play in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and Belgium. Recordings from the Amsterdam, Netherlands and Geislingen, Germany concerts were combined [...]Related posts:James
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With all the bubble-headed blonds dominating the country music airwaves with their brand of mall-pop “country” it’s nice to hear from a woman that reminds me what the music can sound like in the right hands. Gretchen Peters took to the Inter-tubes for a webcast from The Rutledge in Nashville last Saturday taking requests (including [...]Related posts:Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell – Guada
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It’s one thing to be Shooter Jennings or Justin Townes Earle, but being the Granddaughter of country music legend Hank Williams and the Daughter of the hard-living, hell raising outlaw and legend of sorts Hank Williams Jr., well that’s a whole other mountain to climb.Like her half-brother Hank Williams III, Holly Williams takes the fundamentals [...]
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There are few genres as maligned as Southern Rock. The term brings to mind a drunken guy wearing a wife-beater and a trucker cap with a Confederate flag patch screaming "Freebird!" Despite stereotypes the truth is that most people that grow up in the South/Southwest are born knowing about two musical genres, Country and Rock. [...]
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