Closing of Coupland Dancehall Speaks to Deeper Concerns in Music
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Along with Luckenbach, TX and Gruene Hall, The Coupland Dancehall in Coupland, TX about 25 miles east of Austin is one of the legendary spots where so much Texas music history has been made.
New Music From Old Artists
6 CommentsLately so much music has been coming out from oldtime artists I follow, I can hardly keep up. Hopefully in the future I will have features or reviews on all of these projects, but in the meantime here they all are to bring you up to speed. If there’s one album you like to see […]
New Scott Biram Video & Smashed Guitar Auction
6 CommentsThe dirty ol’ one man band from Texas, Scott H. Biram has just released a new video for the single “Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue” off his latest release Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO. It was put together by Blake Judd of Judd Films, Todd Tue of Milk Products Media, […]
RIP Rusty Wier
6 CommentsI know that some, if not most do not know Rusty Wier or his music, and this is a tragedy beyond the fact that the legendary Austin, Texas songwriter died Friday at the age of 65 from Cancer. He was one of the original Austin Outlaws; a founder of the scene. He was a great […]
Kid Rock Slams Pop Country ?
9 CommentsOver his career Kid Rock has done quite a remarkable thing. No, I’m not talking about bridging the genres of rock, rap, and country. I’m talking about being able to make a successful career out of being a glorified trailer park king, while at the same time besmirching the image of trailer park kings all […]
Hank III to Play Free Shows at Layla’s
1 CommentHelldorado of hank3.com has announced that Hank Williams III will be playing a series of free concerts at the legendary Layla’s Bluegrass Inn on Broadway in Nashville at the end of the year. Layla’s is one of the last true honky-tonks on Nashville’s music row, and Hank III is one of a very small stable […]
Bob Wayne to Tour w/ Zeke, Supersuckers, .357
6 CommentsLast night Outlaw Radio Chicago interviewed Bob Wayne who dropped a few very tantalizing nuggets about some upcoming tours he will be involved in. Wayne, who is currently bivouacked at Andy Gibson’s house near Nashville helping him do some recording, remarked on plans to tour opening for the Northwest-based bands The Supersuckers and Zeke in […]
Forgotten Outlaw – Paul “The Devil” English
3 CommentsOf all the rough characters the Outlaw Country music scene can boast, only one has a glass eye and is a former gang leader and pimp. Only one when asked once by a 20/20 reporter if he carried a gun, and if so could he see it answered, “Which one?” because he notoriously carried two […]
My Letter to Capitol Records Nashville
18 CommentsDear Capitol Records Nashville, When firefighters came to protest at your building in support of Ronnie Milsap and Bleve Music, you forced them away. My guess is they would have not met the same reception if the building was on fire, and you or your family were inside. Yet your actions are precluding dollars from […]
Milsap / Bleve Strike Back – Part 2
8 CommentsTo read about the conflict between Ronnie Milsap and Capitol Records Nashville, click here, and to read about Milsap’s first protest click here. I know some of you might be tired of this story, and others might think that the Milsap/Adkins song is not worth defending. But this might be the most important story I […]
Review – Pete Bernhard of Devil Makes Three
1 CommentThe Devil Makes Three is one of those bands that I have had the privilege to watch go from cutting their teeth playing for small crowds in dive bars to being one of the best-drawing, most successful punk-inspired string bands on the West Coast. The Devil Makes Three was ahead of the curve so to […]
The New Saving Country Music Forum !
Well you asked for it, and now you’ve got it. You can now go to forum.savingcountrymusic.com and post and chat about whatever you dern well please! You can also get your ass there by going to the website and clicking on the “Forum” button on the top gray bar. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me by […]
Taylor Swift Disses Country Radio
11 CommentsWhat, you thought I was kidding when I said Taylor Swift was now #1 in my crosshairs, didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU? And them some criticized me when I wrote about how the Kanye/Taylor MTV Incident might have been staged, because the issue was “so yesterday.” And others worried that Saving Country Music was going to […]