AP - Jun 5, 2008
There s a good reason why Dwight Yoakam hasn t performed at the Country Music Association s annual festival in 20 years. No one s asked him, not in recent memory anyway. That changed when Tammy Genovese...
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Dwight Yoakam will make his 24th appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week, breaking the record for most musical performances by any artist. The singer s Los Angeles-based spokeswoman says...
More »Reuters - Oct 5, 2007
Dwight Yoakam first met Buck Owens when he visited Owens' Bakersfield, Calif., radio station KUZZ before appearing at a local fair in 1987. Now, Yoakam is paying tribute to his idol and longtime...
More »AP - Jun 6, 2007
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 Nashville. The second gig is tricker...
More »Reuters - Mar 15, 2007
Martina McBride is both Everywoman and the Everywoman's superstar. A 40-year-old mother of three from Sharon, Kan., who has been married since 1988, she is her audience. That may be one of the reasons...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
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 automation, big business and...
More »AP - Apr 10, 2006
Radney Foster, This World We Live In (Dualtone) Many of these 10 tunes will likely show up on CDs by singers more famous than Radney Foster, but his masterful renditions will be tough to top. The...
More »E! Online - Apr 3, 2006
Buck Owens might be gone, but the master of the electrified honky-tonk Bakersfield Sound won t be soon forgotten. Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins and Brad Paisley were among the more than...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2006
Some of country music s biggest names gathered in this central California farming hub Sunday to pay tribute to the flashy cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with his honky-tonk twang. Dwight...
More »E! Online - Mar 25, 2006
Buck Owens was a different kind of country music star: He played Carnegie Hall, not the Grand Ole Opry; he lived for Bakersfield, not Nashville. Owens, the Act Naturally singer/songwriter who made...
More »Reuters - Mar 25, 2006
Country-music innovator Buck Owens, who sold more than 16 million albums and popularized country entertainment on television as host of Hee Haw, died on Saturday at age 76. Owens died of heart failure...
More »AP - Mar 25, 2006
Some of Buck Owens hits. Excuse Me (I Think I ve Got a Heartache), 1960 Foolin Around, 1961 Kickin Our Hearts Around, 1962 You re for Me, 1962 Act Naturally, 1963 Love s Gonna Live Here...
More »AP - Mar 25, 2006
Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like Act Naturally and brought the genre to TV on the long-running Hee Haw, died Saturday, a spokesman said...
More »AP - Feb 24, 2006
This just might be the role actor John Corbett was born to play. Known for playing the handsome non-Greek boyfriend in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the philosophical radio DJ on Northern Exposure and Carrie...
More »AP - Feb 3, 2006
Louise Scruggs, who as wife and manager of banjo player Earl Scruggs helped expand the audience for bluegrass and country music, has died. She was 78. She died Thursday, her family said. She had been...
More »Reuters - Dec 7, 2005
There have been times when Shilah Morrow of Sin City Marketing has been maddened by her nickname Mama Shi, for actual mothers have to change diapers and do other messy everyday chores. But Morrow is very...
More »Reuters - Sep 28, 2005
Since 2000, singer/guitarist Curt Kirkwood has been spotted in three different bands: a new version of the Meat Puppets, Eyes Adrift (which also included ex-Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and ex-Sublime...
More »Reuters - Sep 19, 2005
ARTIST: BON JOVI ALBUM: HAVE A NICE DAY (ISLAND) People like Bon Jovi for its power-chord-laden songs and Jon Bon Jovi s gravelly vocals. But the frontman has been touting Have a Nice Day as a new...
More »E! Online - Jun 22, 2005
The Foo Fighters set a band sales record and Backstreet is back--alright!--but nothing was as hot as Coldplay on this week s album chart. In its first week out, the Foo Fighters In Your Honor sold...
More »Reuters - Sep 7, 2004
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 auction at Sotheby s. The...
More »E! Online - Mar 22, 2004
Nothing ruins a perfectly good conga line like when the long arm of the law joins in. Austin s annual music biz confab, South by Southwest, got some controversy mixed in with the good times when...
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