AP - Nov 2, 2009
Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones isn t a big fan of where the genre has moved in recent years. When asked about what he thought about music by today s top country stars, the 78-year-old said...
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Country legend George Jones has raided the archives for his next album, Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets, which features 12 collaborations with the likes of Keith Richards and Dolly Parton...
More »AP - Jun 5, 2008
A guitar stolen from country star George Jones 46 years ago in Texas is being returned to him by a man who says he bought it and tried repeatedly to give it back. The acoustic Martin-000 is being returned...
More »Reuters - Apr 11, 2007
Island Def Jam is reviving the legendary Mercury Records imprint in the United States, eight years after it was mothballed in the wake of a corporate merger. The label continues to operate overseas,...
More »Reuters - Apr 8, 2007
After a 30-year career on the fringe of Music Row, singer/songwriter John Anderson is gearing up for an improbable third run at mainstream success. Easy Money (Warner Bros.), his 27th album, counting...
More »AP - Jan 17, 2007
Country-music luminary George Jones wants to share his knowledge of the industry as part of a just-launched country music university named for him. Dedicated to teaching students how the music industry...
More »AP - Jan 17, 2007
It s the stuff of legend in Nashville, and George Jones says every word of it is true. Yes, he was coming off a two-week drinking binge. Yes, he found the house empty and the cars gone. Yes, he took...
More »Reuters - Jan 1, 2007
Billboard presents a look at the music you ll be hearing a lot about in the first quarter: JOHN MELLENCAMP Freedom s Road (Universal, January 23) Mellencamp s first album of originals since 2001...
More »Reuters - Dec 11, 2006
Media consolidation doesn t play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown, gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules that...
More »Reuters - Nov 29, 2006
Moseying out onstage Wednesday at Downtown Disney s House of Blues in Anaheim, Jerry Lee Lewis looked like, well, a slow-moving senior citizen. Then he took a seat behind the piano, his fingertips ran...
More »Reuters - Oct 25, 2006
On Monday I celebrated the fifth anniversary of the iPod s introduction at the Laundromat, listening to a recent Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan on my own iPod and reading a new book about...
More »AP - Oct 20, 2006
George Jones and Merle Haggard, Kickin Out the Footlights ... Again (Bandit) Country music heroes George Jones and Merle Haggard sidestep the usual duet formula on their new album, Kickin Out the Footlights...
More »Reuters - Apr 12, 2006
Rascal Flatts, a group some initially branded as a country boy band, has achieved in six short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a career. In addition to numerous awards, the band...
More »AP - Apr 5, 2006
Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, was found dead in his hotel room in Wales Wednesday following a concert that fans acclaimed as one of his...
More »E! Online - Apr 5, 2006
Gene Pitney memorably sang Only Love Can Break a Heart, but word of his death is proving equally saddening. The melodramatic crooner, who earned a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for writing...
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 »E! Online - Mar 31, 2006
Even hard-livin country music legends have to take it easy once in a while. Veteran honky-tonk rocker and balladeer George Jones was hospitalized for pneumonia Thursday in Nashville, Jones label,...
More »AP - Mar 31, 2006
Country singer George Jones has been hospitalized for pneumonia, his record label said Friday. Jones, 74, is expected to make a full recovery, but doctors advised him to enter Nashville s Baptist Hospital...
More »AP - Mar 30, 2006
Tim McGraw asks a lot of his fans. Onstage, the country singer encourages them to live, love, dance, care, grab it all. Offstage, he urges them to vote, give blood, donate money, to help any way they...
More »AP - Mar 29, 2006
Hank Williams Jr. will receive Country Music Television s Johnny Cash Visionary Award during the 2006 CMT Music Awards show next month, the cable network announced Wednesday. Hosted by comedian Jeff...
More »Reuters - Mar 6, 2006
After more than 35 years, pristine footage of a seemingly forgotten music festival featuring Sly & the Family Stone, B.B. King, the Staples Singers and Mahalia Jackson is finally coming to light. Filmmakers...
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