Reuters - Feb 4, 2009
Country music star Emmylou Harris is coming back home again. Harris, whose award-winning career took off on a mix of her pure, folk-music voice with a hard-driving country rock band, starts a U.S. tour...
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Country music icon Emmylou Harris will release her first album of new material in almost five years on June 10. All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch) is the follow-up to Stumble Into Grace, which debuted at...
More »AP - Nov 20, 2007
Here are reviews of key box set releases: Bob Dylan, Dylan (Columbia) The box set is a curious beast — a combination of curatorial selection, increased quality, whiz-bang packaging and new insights...
More »AP - Oct 28, 2007
Country star Vince Gill, singer and humorist Mel Tillis and television and radio personality Ralph Emery were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday. Al Anderson, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell...
More »Reuters - Jun 10, 2007
Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris will take to the seas together to headline the inaugural Cayamo music cruise, which will set sail February 4 through February 10. With other musical performers including...
More »Reuters - May 7, 2007
It was craft versus showbiz at the inaugural Stagecoach festival, held Saturday and Sunday in Indio, Calif., the site of the Coachella rock extravaganza the weekend before. For the audience, the calculated...
More »AP - Apr 23, 2007
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 six inductees to the Music City...
More »Reuters - Dec 31, 2006
We know that the Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007. But there is always a dark horse that rises seemingly out of nowhere...
More »Reuters - Dec 7, 2006
At 42 years old, Patty Griffin believes it s time she started rockin more. On February 6, the singer/songwriter will release her latest album, Children Running Through, via Dave Matthews indie label...
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
More »E! Online - Nov 29, 2006
Nickelback has all the right reasons to be among the top contenders for the 2006 Billboard Music Awards—namely, the Canadian rock outfit outsold virtually everyone else. The band tied with ...
More »Reuters - Oct 13, 2006
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 unprecedented move, Vince Gill s new...
More »Reuters - Oct 6, 2006
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris June 28 performance at Los Angeles Gibson Amphitheatre is the subject of a CD/DVD set due in stores November 14. Real Live Roadrunning (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.) sports...
More »Reuters - Sep 13, 2006
When his Modern Times debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart. Dylan benefited from associations with iTunes and Starbucks...
More »Reuters - Jul 5, 2006
Shawn Colvin will ring in the second half of her life with the album These Four Walls, along with a new manager and label. It s a major confrontation, knowing that you have to grow up, the 50-year...
More »AP - Jun 26, 2006
Various Artists, The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson (American Roots Publishing) Kris Kristofferson has enjoyed a celebratory run of late, his from induction to the Country Music Hall of...
More »AP - May 22, 2006
If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album Stand Still, Look Pretty would have registered even higher on the twang scale. We had people holding the...
More »AP - Apr 21, 2006
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, All The Roadrunning (Nonesuch) Emmylou Harris would sound good matched with a singing hinge, while Mark Knopfler s songwriting and fretwork are always appealing, which...
More »AP - Apr 12, 2006
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 her friends would go out to...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2006
Nearly 6,000 people showed up this weekend to say goodbye to country music legend Buck Owens, who died a week ago at the age of 76. A public viewing was held Saturday at Owens Crystal Palace, the musician...
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...
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