This Is HUGE: Grammys Add Traditional Country Album Category
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It’s hard to overstate how big this is, both in the present tense, and for what it could mean for the future. The Recording Academy has just announced that for the upcoming season, there will be a Best Traditional Country Album.
2008 Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees
3 CommentsWell, it’s been just over a week since I suffered through watching the whole CMA Pop Country Award Infomercial, and I am happy to report that I am finally able to keep solid foods down, and I finally achieved my first solid bowel movement since Kid Rock took the stage with “Lil Wayne,” making me […]
Gram Parsons
4 CommentsThis is a dude I probably would not write about under normal circumstances. I think he did have a huge influence on the Outlaw Country movement, but it would be a stretch to call him an Outlaw. But I’ve had numerous requests for a Gram Parsons blog, so here we go. This isn’t gonna be […]
A BIG Thank You to ALL! (+ other stuff)
2 CommentsFirst Off: I was going to write a proper roasting of this year’s CMA’s, but the Hank III Coalition did such a proper job, there’s not much more that can be said. IBWIP has a new podcast up, with interviews with Blake Judd and Keith Neltner from the Metal Farm release party in Cinci! Gotta […]
Down with the CMA (Part 3 – ACE & The Outlaws)
Real quick: A Hank III tour announcement is imminent. According to hank3.com it’s gonna start on the 23rd. But remember last Spring there was a big brewha when a bunch of tour dates surfaced and they turned out to be false. So nothing is official until it’s official, and let’s not go chasing rumors. I’m […]
Down With the CMA (Part 2-Corruption in Performances)
12 CommentsWell, if you liked Part 1 of ‘Down with the CMA’, this part is gonna blow your doors off. In the last part we learned from Waylon Jennings about the backroom deals that go on when the CMA decides who to give awards to. Waylon also talked about how he and Ricky van Shelton were […]
Down with the CMA (Part 1–Waylon Jennings)
3 CommentsOn Wednesday night, the CMA Awards will be shoving pop music down America’s throat packaged as “country,” in an attempt to sell as many CD’s of talentless, pretty-faced product musicians as possible. This is NOT and award show people. This is not even an event to promote country music, because I’ll venture to guess not […]
Random News Roundup Vol. 5
0 CommentsHank III News: –There’s a great new interview with Hank III, probably one of the best I’ve ever read on americanroots.com. –There a contest to win an Epiphone guitar and other Hank III gear you can read about on the Hank III MySpace blog. –Please if anybody recorded the Hank III stuff on Fuel TV, […]
The Most Influential Country Music Albums of All Time
8 CommentsI’ve always said that Hank Williams III’s Straight to Hell was one of the most significant albums in country music history. But since no mainstream media outlets are willing to recognize this, I will, and to prove that this is not my biased opinion as a simple Hank III fan, I’m going to name off […]
Seven Signs & The Southern Culture
0 CommentsThe long suffering, soulful, beautiful South: You might have noticed that I have avoided all this political stuff like a pop country compilation on the record store shelf. There a few reasons for this, mainly that I got all kinds of people who read here and I don’t want to offend anybody: Rebels, Yanks, Hippies, […]
The Country Music Revolution Has Begun.
2 CommentsThe revolution to take back Country Music has begun my friends. I am boldly declaring that on this day, the 3rd of November in the year 2008, the first salvo has been shot, and the money changers and Californicators of the Nashville power-elite oligarchy have no other choice but to take notice. Pop country is […]
Halloween with Unknown Hinson
0 CommentsHank Williams III is not gonna get a tattoo of you on his arm unless you got some skins on the wall. For Halloween Unknown Hinson is releasing a new live album Live & Undead. It is available at www.unknownhinson.com. 300-Year-Old Vampire & King of Country and Western Troubadors: Underrated, Amazing Guitar Slinger: Head Sqidbilly: […]
THE BITCH of Damn Right, Rebel Proud & Topping the Charts !
1 CommentHank III’s Damn Right, Rebel Proud: No. 2 Nielson Top Current Country Albums No. 18 Nielson Total Top Current Albums 20,000 Albums sold JUST THIS WEEK ! Man, what can I say? This thing may be groundbreaking. I’ve always said that if Hank III even had a little promotion behind him he would see dramatically […]