John Hiatt slept under a park bench on his first night in Nashville in 1979. Now the city has given the singer-songwriter the star treatment.
On Sunday, Hiatt was among...
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Bob Seger told a 1975 audience at
Detroit's Cobo Arena, where he taped his famed "Live Bullet"
album, that it "might just end up on a record." He'll be able
to say it again...
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Usually when an artist releases a
multiple-CD collection, it's a boxed set of greatest hits,
perhaps with a few previously unreleased tunes thrown in. In a
possibly...
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Sony BMG is shuttering its Epic
Records Nashville imprint, home of such acts as Gretchen Wilson
and Miranda Lambert, and laying off about 20 employees.
Future releases...
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To mark Kris Kristofferson's
upcoming 70th birthday, Nashville-based American Roots
Publishing will release "The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris
Kristofferson" June...
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During the second half of his career, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has taken the words of Artie Shaw and Jack Nicholson to heart.
Crowell took a six-year hiatus to...
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Shelby Lynne is one hard woman. She greets a visiting journalist without a smile. Within minutes, she accuses him of having already written his story based on...
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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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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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Country music artists are hardly united in their support of the war in Iraq — but you'd never know it from listening to the radio.
While Toby Keith , Darryl Worley ...
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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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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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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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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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Nashville is buzzing these days, and it isn't because of some hat-act's hot new single. It's the arrival of 13-year cicadas: large, red-eyed insects that hatch from the...
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