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...
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Though he headlined Monday s latest installment of the new Rockin Country Night series at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip, Joe Ely s performance was acoustic and solo. But that didn t keep the...
More »Reuters - Nov 14, 2005
In Nashville, they call it a guitar pull. Four singer-songwriters -- Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett -- took seats with their acoustic guitars and demonstrated their compositional wares...
More »AP - Sep 14, 2005
Most blessings in Charlie Sexton s life have come with a curse. At 17, the lanky Texan was heralded as a blues guitar prodigy. Instead, he became a rock n roll pretty boy and the butt of critics jokes...
More »AP - Jan 10, 2005
Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines made a surprise appearance at a benefit concert with Willie Nelson, Patty Griffin and other musicians for relief efforts to tsunami victims in countries around the...
More »AP - Jan 7, 2005
Hip-hop rhymers, classical orchestras, church choirs, punk bands and creamy-voiced crooners from Paris to Hong Kong are taking up the fund-raising theme for victims of the Asian tsunami, holding money...
More »AP - Jan 4, 2005
Celebrities across the globe were mobilizing to help relief efforts in countries affected by the deadly earthquake and tsunamis in southern Asia and eastern Africa. Leonardo DiCaprio , who filmed The...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week s ranking is in parentheses. The list is...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »AP - Nov 9, 2004
Billy Joe Shaver, Guy Clark, Dennis Morgan and Freddie Hart have been inducted into the Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame. Tom T. Hall gave Shaver s induction speech Sunday, and Kris Kristofferson joined...
More »AP - Sep 17, 2004
As some concerts and outdoor music events struggle, the Austin City Limits Music Festival revels in its success. The three-day festival offering blues, rock, country, reggae and gospel returns for its...
More »Reuters - May 3, 2004
Veteran artists Lyle Lovett , John Hiatt , Guy Clark and Joe Ely are scheduling a handful of fall shows together. Confirmed so far is an Oct. 22 show at New York s Beacon Theater and a performance...
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2004
Performers at the nation s biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds. Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned regional groups -- more than 1,200 in all this year --...
More »Reuters - Jan 19, 2004
Billy Corgan, Jackson Browne and Los Lobos are among the artists who will contribute to the tribute album Por Vida, which will help singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo pay his Hepatitis C medical bills...
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