Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent...
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The first of Dierks Bentley's two big outdoor shows this month is a gimme.
He'll play for thousands of adoring country fans this week at the CMA Music Festival in...
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Thanks in part to her
first-rate Handsome Band and some intriguing stylistic
excursions, Norah Jones delivered a first-rate concert that
demonstrated a newfound liveliness....
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Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las...
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Hank is off the hook.
Citing lack of evidence, prosecutors in Memphis, Tennessee have dismissed a misdemeanor assault case against Hank Williams Jr. stemming from a hotel...
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British Pianist Jools Holland, once of
pop-rock act Squeeze and long known for his versatility as both
a musician and broadcast personality, has released a country
music...
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Two people accused of stealing a Hank Williams notebook believed to be worth $250,000 surrendered to police, even though one of the suspects claims to have legitimately...
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Nashville police arrested two people accused of stealing a 59-year-old Hank Williams notebook containing notes and unpublished song lyrics.
Sony/ATV Music Publishing said...
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On Monday I celebrated
the fifth anniversary of the iPod's introduction at the
Laundromat, listening to a recent "Theme Time Radio Hour With
Your Host Bob Dylan" on my own...
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A music publishing company says a 59-year-old notebook that once belonged to the late country singer Hank Williams and is now in the hands of two collectors had been stolen...
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Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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In Oakwood Cemetery, signs direct the faithful and the curious to the much-visited burial site of country music legend Hank Williams Sr., a monument that includes depictions...
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Someone should really
introduce Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to each other.
At least that's the impression one got Friday night at New
York's Madison Square Garden, where the...
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Rock stars, country stars and even songwriters have their own halls of fame. Now their backing musicians are getting into the act, too.
The Musicians Hall of Fame and...
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Country may have ruled
the roost at the Roxy on Friday night, but it's a safe bet that
the parade of topless girls who made their way from the crowd
to the stage throughout...
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Frankly, my dear...welcome to the family.
White Stripes rocker Jack White and his wife, model Karen Elson,
announced Thursday that they had their first child together...
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Hilary Williams, daughter of country star Hank Williams Jr., has been transferred to a Nashville hospital for continued treatment of injuries suffered in a traffic accident...
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It wasn't too long ago that Norah Jones was living a double life, and trying hard to shield it from public view.
In the late-night hours, the smoky-voiced jazz singer and...
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Nicole's man done good.
Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and
Brad Paisley were among the big winners of the CMT Awards Monday night,
with the American Idol alum managing...
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Tim McGraw asks a lot of his fans. Onstage, the country singer encourages them to live, love, dance, care, grab it all. Offstage, he urges them to vote, give blood, donate...
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Hank Williams Jr. will receive Country Music Television's Johnny Cash Visionary Award during the 2006 CMT Music Awards show next month, the cable network announced...
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For the filming of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," Young insisted on a little superstition. Only during a full moon.
"That's the only time he'd do it," director Jonathan...
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Two daughters of country music singer Hank Williams Jr. were badly hurt in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in northern Mississippi, the performer's publicist...
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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, "Ballad of the Broken Seas" (V2)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan — the former cellist/vocalist of Scottish indie pop band Belle &...
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Ne-Yo's so sick that he can't be denied.
The rookie R&B
crooner, whose debut single "So Sick" already topped the
Billboard Hot 100 radio, now has a number one album to...
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Ray Charles' 1962 album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" was a milestone that broadened the audience for country music and brought new respect to the genre, and...
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The Little Willies, "The Little Willies" (Milking Bull)
What do you get when the Traveling Wilbury's meet the Highwaymen?
The Little Willies.
Led by Norah Jones and...
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Alan Jackson's mother had been after him for 10 years to make a gospel record. Last year, when the country superstar's father-in-law died, he recorded "Turn Your Eyes Upon...
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Given that both artists
joined the Country Music Hall of Fame on the same night in
1996, there's a symmetry to a Ray Price appearance at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace. But what...
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Most concert films look alike. The panoramas of the band and crowd from the back of the theater. The cameras slowly panning, cameramen skulking about and getting in one...
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Hank Williams Jr., whose rendition of "Are You Ready for Some Football?" has greeted "Monday Night Football" viewers for 16 years, will make his fifth Super Bowl...
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We've seen Neil Young the hard rocker. Neil the angry protest singer. Neil the rockabilly crooner. Neil the grunge guitarist.
For two nights at Nashville's Ryman...
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The right to sell some old recordings by Hank Williams belongs to the country music legend's heirs, an appeals court has ruled.
The Friday decision by the Tennessee Court...
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Perhaps because so much
of music is rhythm -- time cut into metric pieces -- it has the
power to rearrange, obliterate or reclaim time. So as we reach
the part of the year...
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One of country's hardest rock bands will open for one of rock's hardest country bands. Brooks & Dunn will warm up for the Rolling Stones in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 29.
"We've...
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Garth Brooks is ropin' in a new missus.
The country
crooner got hitched Saturday to fellow Nashville star Trisha Yearwood,
his publicist announced to Access Hollywood.
...
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It's late morning and the guys from Cross Canadian Ragweed are beat.
Cody Canada drifts into the coffee shop a few minutes late and plops down beside bandmates Grady Cross...
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Sometimes art does imitate life: Take this week's album chart,
which finds Rod Stewart chasing after a younger blonde woman--Ashlee Simpson.
Jessica's lip-synching...
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The rendition of "Happy Birthday" at the Grand Ole Opry's 80th birthday bash this weekend is bound to be good.
The guest list includes Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss, Travis...
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"Don't look back," the
baseball sage Satchel Paige advised. "Something might be
gaining on you." For Bob Dylan in the 1960s, the hellhounds in
the rearview were the crush of...
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Vassar Clements, a fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician who played with Paul McCartney and an array of others, died at his home Tuesday after a battle with lung...
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PBS goes honky-tonk tonight when the "American Masters" series airs "Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues."
The one-hour documentary includes the first-ever on-camera interview...
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The Rolling Stones are ready for some football--and not the
kind of football Americans call soccer.
The
legendary U.K. rockers have signed a deal with the National...
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If anyone seems born to write and sing songs, it's Holly Williams. Her grandfather is American music icon Hank Williams, her father the country outlaw Hank Williams Jr. She...
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He sure wasn't thinkin' 'bout an invitation to the Grand Ole Opry. Country singer Dierks Bentley was in the middle of a show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles when he got...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson will
be the honoree at music charity group MusiCares' annual
pre-Grammys bash in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, organizers said
Wednesday.
The...
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Country artists need to try harder
when it comes to international markets, according to talent
executive Bruce Allen.
During a recent keynote speech at the Country Music...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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It only took 30 years,
but Jimmy Buffett can finally say he has reached No. 1 on the
U.S. pop albums chart.
"License to Chill," a set that includes duets with top
country...
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Country Music Television's list of the 100 greatest love songs:
1. "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton )
2. "You Were Always On My Mind" (Willie Nelson )
3. "Sweet...
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The lone Jeff Buckley studio album
released in his lifetime will be reissued in a remastered,
expanded edition this summer.
Due Aug. 23 via Columbia, "Grace: Legacy...
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Singer Terri Clark , a raven-haired Canadian with a driving country sound, will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry next month.
The 35-year-old received a...
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Country songwriter and manager Merle Kilgore was scheduled to have quadruple-bypass heart surgery Monday to clear four blocked arteries.
He learned he had a heart problem...
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A concert featuring country stars such as Hank Williams Jr. and Rebecca Lynn Howard is planned Labor Day weekend to raise money for families of military reservists who...
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Willie
Nelson can't wait to get back on the road again.
The
hirsute outlaw country legend has nixed a series of concerts over the
next two months so he can undergo...
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Bob Dylan , Keith Richards , Jerry
Lee Lewis , Kid Rock and Merle Haggard were among the "outlaws
and angels" that Willie Nelson brought out on Wednesday for his
third...
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Just over a month after its release,
Usher's chart-topping album, "Confessions," has been certified
triple-platinum for U.S. shipments in excess of three million
copies by...
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This city of about 18,000 is going to need a Walk of Fame if it keeps up this pace. While Diana DeGarmo is now among the top five finalists on the Fox television show,...
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Country icon Loretta Lynn and
rocker Jack White of White Stripes fame might appear to be a
musical odd couple. But one listen to Lynn's new White-produced
album, "Van Lear...
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As Gibson Guitar Corp. launches a new digital model, company CEO Henry Juszkiewicz can close his eyes and almost hear the music.
"The defining moment will be when a...
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A new group called the Music Row Democrats is trying to shake the perception that country music is full of Republicans.
But it won't be easy. Like the 1967 Sonny James hit...
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Hank Williams Jr. is going back to sing in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the first time in eight years, and it's Waylon Jennings who's bringing him there.
Williams will be a...
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Neil Young wants to talk about
vegetable oil.
It would be reasonable to expect that the rock 'n' roll
veteran has more pressing matters on his mind -- he's just
launched...
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Grand Ole Opry stars Vince Gill , Patty Loveless and the Del McCoury Band will hit the road this spring for an 11-city Opry tour, the long-running radio show's first in...
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Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring the Johnny Cash classic "Ring of Fire," but Cash's family said...
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In a format that is looking for a
breakthrough artist to engage consumers, country newcomer Josh
Turner is a godsend.
His current single, "Long Black Train," has been...
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Dolly Parton will host Country Music Television's Flameworthy Video Music Awards in April, and Shania Twain will perform.
CMT General Manager Brian Philips called Parton...
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Jett Williams wishes more songwriters these days penned tunes like her dad's. Hank Williams ' songs still move people, she says, because he wrote them about real feelings....
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It's usually considered a good
thing when country music and artists make headlines.
But two stories that kept country in the news this year --
the death of icon Johnny...
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Fresh from the November release of
his self-titled album, Kid Rock is preparing for an arena tour
in 2004. The trek will begin with a Jan. 22-23 stand in
Saginaw, Mich.; 11...
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The late Johnny Cash — a pioneer of both country and rock music — was honored with a tribute featuring artists and performances as diverse and far-reaching as his...
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The Man in Black is gone but not forgotten.
Johnny
Cash was awarded three of Nashville's highest honors at the Country
Music Association's 37th Annual Country Music...
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It'll be a testosterone-fest at the Country Music Association Awards this year. For the first time in about 20 years, male singers took all five slots in both the...
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Vince Gill , who will host the Country Music Association Awards for the 12th time, says he'll try to be low-key.
"I've always felt that my role is to try to make everybody...
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Singer Kid Rock and country duo Brooks & Dunn are the latest artists to be added to the Nov. 10 musical tribute to Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium, organizers announced...
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Tim Robbins will host the Nov. 10 musical tribute to Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium, Cash's longtime manager Lou Robin said Monday.
"He's looking forward to being...
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Actor Tim Robbins will be the host of the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute at Ryman Auditorium on Nov. 10.
Artists confirmed to take part in the service include Willie...
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The Man in Black is reaching out to fans from beyond the grave.
Next month Johnny
Cash not only becomes the focus of an all-star
concert, but also a just-announced...
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"Poet to the people" Hank Williams was feted--posthumously--at Nashville's Country Music Hall Of Fame & Museum on Sept. 17, in a party attended by various industry types to...
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The country music industry lost another of its pioneers when legendary promoter/ agent Buddy Lee died of respiratory failure on February 13th. Lee was the founder of...
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