'American Idol' Top 10 Finalists Revealed; Watershed Music Festival Lineup Announced + More: Country News Roundup
The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.
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The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.
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Derek Trucks is coming off a signature year, highlighted by a Grammy win for the Tedeschi Trucks Band and an appearance with wife Susan Tedeschi at the White House.
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A dazzling and cosmopolitan trip, Into the Air finds Jeff Coffin and his Mu'Tet in fine form indeed.
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The two have guested on each other's albums, toured together intermittently, and even found themselves nominated in 1999 for Grammy awards in the same category with their individual bands.
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125 musicians, including Bryan Adams, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Nas, have put their names to an open letter calling on US streaming service Pandora to stop lobbying for a change in the way sound recording royalties for internet radio services are calculated in the US.
Read MoreFrom April 4th to June 4th The Ripple Effect ran a campaign on the excellent online music website ReverbNation (www.reverbnation.com).
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A guest-packed benefit show to support the Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research is set for September 29, 2012, with appearances scheduled by Tinsley Ellis, Kim Wilson and Gina Sicilia, among others.
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Alan Paul's new digital Ebook on the All Brothers Band called One Way Out provides the most in-depth information yet on the angry split in 2000 with founding guitarist Dickey Betts — even as it describes in stirring detail the fiery interplay between Betts and Duane Allman that helped define this group.
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In House is AOL Music's series in which we welcome artists into our offices to play some music, chat with our staffers and, generally, just hang out.
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The most inspired husband-wife team in roots music since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks joined forces to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band and made a Grammy Best Blues Album winning record last year ( Revelator ) in their backyard studio in the Northeast Florida swamp.
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The most inspired husband-wife team in roots music since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks joined forces to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band and made a Grammy Best Blues Album winning record last year ( Revelator ) in their backyard studio in the Northeast Florida swamp.
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Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit earned the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award at the 33rd annual Blues Music Awards, held May 10, 2012 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center.
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Billy Boy Arnold, Mike Bloomfield, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Doc Pomus and Allen Toussaint lead the 2012 class of the Blues Hall of Fame, to be inducted tonight (May 9, 2012) at the Memphis Marriott Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee, ahead of Thursday's 33rd annual Blues Music Awards ceremonies.
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That this is W.C. Handy Award-winning bluesman Paul Rishell's first acoustic recording will come as something of a surprise, so deep is his grasp, so complete is his commitment.
Read MoreHancock -- referred to by Jones as my "brother from another mother" -- finally took the stage next alongside the surviving members of Miles Davis ' second great quintet, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and bassist Ron Carter, to perform the trumpet master's "Milestones."
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The cool-rocking 11-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band will release an uplifting, energy-packed double live set called Everybody's Talkin' on May, 22, 2012 — a capping an amazing initial year of collaborations between Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi that culminated with a Grammy win for their debut album Revelator.
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Ambassador Herbie Hancock believes what the world needs is a little jazz diplomacy.
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Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Jeff Beck are teaming up with musical up-and-comers at the White House to celebrate the blues.
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We love Adele's poise, her earthy attitude, the roiling emotion in her voice.
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There is, of course, an obvious comparison for the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band — yeah, we made it too — in the 1970s-era husband-and-wife tours led by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett.
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The Decemberists hit hard in January with The King Is Dead and maintained their number one status with me for the entire year.
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2011 brought its share of comebacks (Gregg Allman, the Meters' Zigaboo Modeliste, the Time) Stax-related joys (both Booker T. Jones and Steve Cropper issued solo sides) and out-of-nowhere delights (Big Head Todd does the blues?).
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Ever since Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi married in 2001, the two have frequently contributed to each other projects and performed together.
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Friday night I had the pleasure of seeing "The Tedeschi Trucks Band" at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, WI.
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His third album since parting ways with the Drive-by Truckers and second with band The 400 Unit. The album title, Here We Rest , takes it's name from the original Alabama state motto.
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Her visage, light complected with long curly red hair, showing just enough softness and cleavage to be enticing, graces the front and the back of the CD When I opened the case the credits for all thirteen tracks slowly unfolded.
Read MoreThe worry, with any rock-guitar virtuoso's recording, is that it will quickly devolve into onanistic noodling.
Read MoreVictor was hired as a bluegrass fiddler after older brother, Roy, convinced Busch Gardens' administrators that Victor could play.
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Forty years after the legendary guitarist's death, Jimi Hendrix 's music has been coming back to the forefront.
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The Nateva Music and Camping Festival entered its first year with a few strikes against it.
Read MoreGrammy- winning artist and musical pioneer Herbie Hancock releases his new album The Imagine Project on August 2nd out on Sony Music.
Read MoreWhen you watch the video for Herbie Hancock 's new version of 'Space Captain' featuring singer Susan Tedeschi and her husband, Derek Trucks , on guitar, watch the video.
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He happened to be in Mumbai anyway, part of a US State Department trek with students of the Thelonious Monk Institute to mark the 50th anniversary of an India journey Dr. Martin Luther King took there to study Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent approach to social action.
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