Roger Knox: Stranger in My Land
Though country music is most typically associated with the Southern United States, it's impact has been felt all around the world.
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Though country music is most typically associated with the Southern United States, it's impact has been felt all around the world.
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When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice.
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If the name Roger Knox is a new one, well join the club.
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It's one-fourth of the Quad Cities, along with Davenport, Moline and Bettendorf.
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From time to time nice people at record companies, book publishers, and publicity firms will send me things to listen to, read, or watch.
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A column about music and travel would be remiss if it didn't take a brief glimpse at the travel inherent in much of music-making: the tour.
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In honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who's DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry.
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Ira and Charlie Louvin , who performed together as the Louvin Brothers in the '50s and '60s , became one of country music's most heralded duos.
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Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger — is the toast of Greil Marcus's latest book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.
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Each year, the long-running Nashville Film Festival (founded in 1969), includes a fair amount of music-themed entries among its 250-plus films.
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On surface, The Louvin Brothers ' recipe of God-bothering country music is the ultimate hard sell for the modern music fan.
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The Louvin Brothers are a true mix of yin and yang; they manage to be one of the most un-hip groups of all time, while at the same time influencing a whole roster of bands and artists across a wide spectrum of music with their gospel old timey close harmony country music.
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Such simple pleasures seem curiously typical of this 26-time Grammy award winner and reigning bluegrass queen, a woman who is, by all accounts, very low-maintenance.
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Country music legend Charlie Louvin dies by New Music News - Willis Who? 2 months ago Other musicians remember Charlie Louvin (PopWire) by PopMatters 2 months ago 20 Questions:
Read MoreLast year's release from Nashville's William Tyler, Behold the Spirit , conjures immediate feelings of warmth.
Read MoreOver the course of a career filled with flashes and feints, Destroyer's Dan Bejar has established himself as one of the best, and most reluctant, lyricists in rock.
Read MoreThe Guardian reports that Patti Smith is currently writing a detective novel.
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Louvin , born Charlie Elzer Loudermilk in the Appalachian mountains of Alabama, rose to fame in the 1950s and 60s as half of the Louvin Brothers , playing guitar and singing with his mandolin-playing brother Ira. The two brothers sang in close, tight harmony, applying that style to gospel, hillbilly songs, and pop standards, becoming one of the most influential duos in country music history.
Read MoreIn debating the uses and wastes of war, no image carries more power than that of a mother grieving for her dead son.
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Grounded by a case of bronchitis, Don Williams was unable to attend what he calls "the biggest honor of my life," induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams, who told sold-out crowds at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday nights that he was having serious sinus problems, succumbed to his ailment on Friday when he was taken to a Kentucky hospital for treatment.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member Charlie Louvin of the legendary Louvin Brothers is fighting pancreatic cancer.
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In 2006, Nashville chanteuse Cortney Tidwell teamed up with fellow 'Home Of Country Music' resident Kurt Wagner, of Lambchop, to record a song for her debut full length, Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up .
Read MoreIn a rare alignment of planets the Country Music Awards are actually in agreement. the pride of Texas, Miranda Lambert has been nominated for a record-breaking nine Country Music Association Awards, the most for any female country music artist in the history of the awards program.
Read MoreIn this economy we all gave to pick and choose where our money goes, so for the first time in three years I'm skipping the Americana Festival and Conference.
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Gary Allan , Brad Paisley and wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley , bluegrass greats Larry Stephenson and Roland White, Emmylou Harris , steel guitar great Lloyd Green and songwriters Odie Blackman and Gary Nicholson were just a few of the celebrities who found their way to Nashville's Belcourt Theatre Monday night to see the final night of the Desert Rose Band's mini-concert tour of 2010.
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Charlie Louvin has a reputation that precedes him and it's one that's been created and reinforced over more decades of making and performing his iconic bluegrass and country and western music.
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