Kacey Musgraves Moves to Lost Highway and (Maybe) Back to Her Roots
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Recently, it was announced that Lost Highway was being recommissioned, and even more recently that Kacey Musgraves was named the label’s new flagship artist. She even released her version of “Lost Highway.”
Listen to Lucky Tubb LIVE @ The Granada
29 CommentsAt some point the world is going to have to wake up to just what an amazing talent Lucky Tubb is. This is not just another guy with a famous name doing a hokey neo-traditional bit, this is a singular talent with generations of music history to uphold and move forward. In my review of […]
Peewee Moore Hits The Outlaw Mark
6 CommentsIf someone asks you to define just what exactly you mean when you say “REAL” country or when you call someone an “Outlaw.” If words fail you when someone asks you to clarify what you mean when you say your music has to have “that sound.” When you say “I know it when I hear […]
New Dates & New Downloads (Get Some!)
17 CommentsAlright so recently we’ve had a ton of new concert dates released, as well as albums that people have been wondering when they will go digital, go digital, as well as other interesting album news and tidbits. So in no sexy delivery, her’s all the info: ALL THREE of Lucky Tubb’s great albums have finally […]
New Hank III – Whiskey Hound With A Southern Sound?
15 CommentsWell after a long drought of Hank III news, now it’s coming hard and heavy. The latest is that his next album, and the first as an independent artist free of the iron claw of Curb Records, will be called Whiskey Hound With A Southern Sound, and is scheduled to be released in April 2011. […]
Gwyneth Paltrow Does NOT “Go Country”
15 CommentsUsually when actors and artists from other music genres make a move to get some of that sweet, sweet nectar from the voluptuous and lucrative pop country tit, it’s my job to pull down their pants and laugh at their privates for “going country.” I’ve seen probably two dozen websites and “E news” reports saying […]
Hank III Disses New White Family Movie
60 CommentsBut he admits he has never watched it. Hank Williams III appears in The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia in commentary scenes, as well as in music performances with Jesco White shot outside of Hank Jr’s cabin. But in a video interview with “Superskum,” he said about the project: “Well I really don’t […]
Hank III East Coast Tour / CURB Contract Date
18 CommentsHank III.com has just announced tour dates of the East Coast, more might be coming. As of right now, there is no support band announced. What I have been hearing is that after the problems on the last tour with Izzy Cox, there will be no more Hank III openers. Hopefully this is not true, […]
Movie Review – The Folk Singer
30 CommentsThe Folk Singer is the exact right movie for this very moment in time. It courageously reaches down to the deepest measure of the human soul and spirit and mines what cannot be expressed in words. It says what we are all thinking, but were incapable heretofore of saying. You watch this movie and say, […]
Trace Adkins On Capitol Nashville: ‘They’re Broke’
5 CommentsTrace Adkins has ended months of speculation of why he left one of Nashville’s most notorious major labels, that being Capitol Record’s Nashville subsidiary. “They’re broke.” Adkins explained bluntly in an interview with Yahoo News. “Everybody knows that. I mean, it’s in the Wall Street Journal every other week. They don’t have any money. And […]
The Quebe Sisters Are Good. Real Good.
8 CommentsOn Friday night I was treated to Western swing heaven as Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel brought his Bob Wills musical A Ride With Bob to my neck of the woods. (You can read my review of the show on the 9513.) The show featured a couple of guest artists, one being Ruby […]
Johnny Cash’s Famous Middle Finger
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Last week when I posted a link to Johnny Cash’s American Recordings Outtakes I posted a sign of Johnny shooting the bird. Not the first time I’ve posted that picture, but after some inquires and a few conversations over it, it’s come to my attention that maybe the story behind Johnny Cash’s middle finger is […]
Album Review – Trampled By Turtles “Palomino”
20 CommentsIn one respect, we live in a blessed time in country music. If it was 1986, the superpickers of our generation would be stuffing a sock down the front of their spandex tights as hair designers kink their bangs and perm their mullet, getting them ready to go on stage and pull some ungodly bad […]