If you’ve attended a solo Willie Nelson show you know what’s coming. Just as sure as a Texas Summer is hot and that your enchiladas at El Fenix will begin with chips and salsa, the Redheaded Stranger will deliver a canon of some of the best and most loved American songs spanning his 40 [...]
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Willie Nelson - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA. - 1/18/09
Those Darlins on Tour
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Ever wonder what it would been like if Anita, June, and Helen Carter had been reared on pop-punk, kept their respect for old-school country and looked great in shorts? Well wonder no longer friends, Tennessee-based Those Darlins combine Pentecost earnestness with riot girrl spirit that delivers a sound both reverent and brazen. Fresh off sharpening [...]
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Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers Offer Free CD to Fans
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Texas Honky-Tonk angel Miss Leslie Anne Sloan and Her Juke-Jointers are giving away copies of their new release, "Between the Whiskey and the Wine" (released July 15, 2008) from their newly relaunched website. (Postage outside the US will cost $4.00) Gobbler's Knob has some great things to say about Austin's own The Gourds' release Haymaker. You [...]
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Hank Williams 56 Years On
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It's been 56 years that Hiram (Hank) King Williams, the man commonly referred to as the King of Country Music and the hillbilly Shakespeare, lost his life on an unseasonably cold road somewhere between Knoxville, TN and Oak Hill, West Virginia in the back of a '52 Cadillac being driven by a hired college freshman [...]
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Seven Signs Now on DVD
If you want a glimpse of the contemporary, raw, rural South you need to pick up the film Seven Signs. It's the directorial debut for the Th' Legendary Shack Shakers front man J.D. Wilkes, in collaboration with the Lexington, Kentucky based independent production company JuddFilms, the film offers a document of the eccentricities, [...]
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The Tennessean.com on The Marty Stuart Show
Peter Cooper at the Tennessean.com posts a great piece on RFD TV network's The Marty Stuart Show. Cooper reports that the country music legend Stuart modeled after The Porter Wagoner Show, The Wilburn Brothers Show, The Flatt & Scruggs Show. Pretty good company to keep and miles away from the pop fluff being crammed down [...]
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David Browne on the Future of Country Music in Politics
David Browne writes an interesting article on the New Republic site about country music’s seeming total allegiance to the GOP, and how the lost election may cause the industry to do some back-room hashing out of the future of country music. I like how the article ends up, but doesn’t Brown know that Ralph Stanley, [...]
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