High Points and Cool Characters Appear on New Episode of ‘The Hook’
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The Hook was built to help address the problems facing performers by providing a video platform for both established songwriters, and up-and-comers by allowing anyone to be able to sign up for the opportunity to perform a song.
Hank Williams Jr. Announces 2022 Tour Dates
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Hank Jr. doesn’t play a whole lot of live engagements these days. He’d rather be in a deer blind or on a turkey shoot, or beside a body of water with a pole in his hand. But he will be will be getting after it this summer, and rest assured these tickets will be sought after.
Amazon’s ACM Awards Forget Rural Fans Resulting in Tech Issues
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There was a pretty catastrophic oversight by both the ACM Awards and Amazon in their streaming awards show experiment, and one that alienated the most key demographic for a presentation such as the ACM Awards: country fans who live in the country.
Shooter Jennings Is Stepping Away from Touring
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The writing has been on the wall for a while, but over the weekend Shooter Jennings made it official: he’s stepping away from touring as a solo performer indefinitely to focus more on the production side of music where his career has been focused more and more.
The 2022 ACM Awards LIVE Blog
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Though the plan was to retire this particular annual live event commentary amid the rapid decline of popular award shows and the lack of interest they create, since this year the ACM’s are making a seismic shift to streaming online through Amazon Prime…
Album Review – Matt Castillo’s “How The River Flows”
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Take your favorite traditional 90’s country vibes, mix them with a good measure of strongly-written songs in the Texas music tradition, and spice it up with a just little bit of south Texas Tejano squeezebox flavor, and what you have is the latest album from Matt Castillo.
On Blake Shelton Pondering Retirement
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The best in country music don’t make music because they want to. They make country music because they have to. It’s not a means to an end financially. It’s a requisite emotionally and spiritually. Making country music is how a true country music artist unburdens their soul.
Billy Strings Adds New Tour Dates, Jams w/ Bob Weir, Les Claypool
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We are living in the era of Billy Strings in bluegrass music, and it won’t be long before that is so self-evident it’s trite to say, and his popularity and influence spills over into the popular culture realm at large. Gone already are the days of seeing him in clubs or on side stages .
Country Music Legend Warner Mack Has Died
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When you write a song at the age of 13 that becomes a country standard and a hit in three separate decades, you know you were born to make country music. Warner Mack was born Warner McPherson on April 2, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee, and was a natural.
Charley Crockett to Tribute Country Roots with “Jukebox Charley”
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“Jukebox Charley” isn’t just the name of an old Johnny Paycheck song. It’s a good term of endearment for Charley Crockett since he’s quickly proving that that he and his backing band The Blue Drifters can light into just about any classic country song you can call out
Album Review – Jenny Tolman’s “Married in a Honky Tonk”
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All the appetites of your country music palette are satiated by the end of Jenny Tolman’s ‘Married in a Honky Tonk,’ with your funny bone tickled, you brain stimulated, and your spirit raised. Jennyville is a fulfilling place to spend a few hours, and return to often.
Garth Hudson of The Band Not Forgotten During Difficult Time
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From country to Americana, to folk and classic rock, from Canada to the United States and around the world, everybody knows and loves The Band, and their influence and appeal is stratified across genres and continents. But along with Robertson, there is another surviving member.
Put Rock Artists in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Before Dolly Parton
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The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced last month, and leading the pack and making the biggest splash was not a name from the rock world, but a country one in the form of Country Music Hall of Famer Dolly Parton.