Johnny Cash Plays Important Role in New Bob Dylan Film
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On Christmas, the new biopic film about Bob Dylan called ‘A Complete Unknown’ will open in theaters. And just like the real life story of Dylan, Johnny Cash will play an important role. 1964 is when Dylan and Cash first met.
ESPN Anchor John Buccigross is Obsessed with Sturgill Simpson
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SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross is head over heels for Sturgill Simpson and his new record a Sailor’s Guide to Earth. Or hell, his entire catalog. And if you’ve been paying attention over the last week or so, Buccigross been dropping references to Sturgill and singing his praises left and right.
Red Dirt and Texas Country Have a Female Problem
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Right now, Texas and Oklahoma is being robbed of its female talent from Nashville and the two coasts. And these women are regularly sucked up into a system that absconds with their creative freedom, sexualizes their image, and drops them unceremoniously whenever their commercial viability is perceived to be spent.
Song Review – Chris Janson’s “Holdin’ Her”
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“Holdin’ Her” makes absolutely no compromises to radio or anyone else. It starts on the acoustic guitar in waltz time, then the steel guitar comes in, a little Telecaster and keys, and as the old saying goes, it’s three chords and the truth. No drum loops, no electronic doo dads, no superfluous buzzwords thrown in there to lure in the corporate country radio fan.
Saving Country Music’s American Country Countdown Awards LIVE Blog
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Saving Country Music LIVE blog for country music’s most laughable and irrelevant awards show of the year, the America Country Countdown Awards, or ACCA’s. It has the distinction of being considered the 4th country music awards show, even lagging behind the immaterial CMT Awards.
Legendary Songwriter Guy Clark is in Nursing Home, But Is “Stable”
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Guy Clark has been suffering from numerous health ailments recently. In June 2015, he was hospitalized right before he was scheduled to appear at an Austin City Limits event being held in his behalf. Clark had a bad reaction to medication he was prescribed after a recent surgical procedure, and missed the ACL Hall of Fame induction.
Kris Kristofferson Plays a Badass Gun-Toting Bartender in New Western Movie — “Traded”
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Director Timothy Woodward Jr. was inspired to make a Western version of the Liam Neeson blockbuster “Taken,” and decided to cast country music songwriting legend and noted actor Kris Kristofferson on help star in the movie. Set in Kansas during the late 1800’s, and shot in parts of New Mexico and California, “Traded” finds Kristofferson as a crotchety, soothsaying, gun-toting bartender named Billy
Song Review – “Florida Georgia Line’s “H.O.L.Y”
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When mainstream country artists start talking about how their upcoming music is going to be more mature, you can be assured this is a harbinger that it will be anything but. Even if you do get a deep song, like we did with Florida Georgia Line’s debut single the last go ’round, “Dirt,” it ultimately didn’t make a hill of beans worth of difference by the time their full album Anything Goes arrived.
Past Due: Who Should Be The Next Grand Ole Opry Member?
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A big issue with the Grand Ole Opry in recent years has been trying to get standing members to meet their performance obligations. Though the Opry loves to add high-profile names from country’s current radio stars, these performers tend to sign on to receive the distinction of being Opry members, but don’t actually want to play the appointed number of slots for membership.
How in the World Was The Band Perry’s “Live Forever” Named Team USA’s Olympic Song?
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By all accounts, it was the song’s dismal performance on the country music charts and The Band Perry’s hard-headed insistence on sticking with their new pop direction that had the family trio and preeminent country music label Big Machine parting ways earlier this year. To put it bluntly, “Live Forever” killed The Band Perry’s country music career.
Song Review – Beyonce’s ‘Country’ Song “Daddy Lessons”
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Why exactly this song is considered country is beyond me. Is it because Beyoncé randomly says “Texas” for no damn reason at the beginning, or screams “Yee haw!” once or twice? If this is what makes a song country, then this is the most stereotypical of stereotypical observations possible. Nonetheless, “Daddy Lessons” is still more country than Sam Hunt.
Tribute or Exploitation: The Dilemma Media Faces When Covering Celebrity Music Deaths
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Usually it’s only once or twice a year that music media is faced with the dilemma of how to adequately and respectfully cover the passing of a high profile music celebrity. In 2016, it has been more like once or twice a month. In fact the frequency of seismic music deaths has been a story unto itself.
Album Review – The Lumineers “Cleopatra”
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There was no way for The Lumineers to win with this record. They’d almost have to pull a J.D. Salinger to stay on the right side of history, and even then their legacy would be sullied. Why? Because popular culture has already judged them as a time piece—as part of a trend that started to die when even Saturday Night Live was doing parody sketches of roots bands dressed in suspenders.