AP - Jan 5, 2009
The AP takes a look at some of 2008 s overlooked albums: Joe Lovano, Symphonica (Blue Note) Saxophonist Joe Lovano is more a synthesizer of jazz styles than an innovator, but it s his versatility that...
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 27, 2006
Bob Seger told a 1975 audience at Detroit s Cobo Arena, where he taped his famed Live Bullet album, that it might just end up on a record. He ll be able to say it again this week at the Palace of Auburn...
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 - May 19, 2006
Sony BMG is shuttering its Epic Records Nashville imprint, home of such acts as Gretchen Wilson and Miranda Lambert, and laying off about 20 employees. Future releases from relevant artists will bear...
More »Reuters - Feb 17, 2006
To mark Kris Kristofferson s upcoming 70th birthday, Nashville-based American Roots Publishing will release The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson June 27. Gretchen Wilson was the most recent...
More »AP - Aug 26, 2005
During the second half of his career, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has taken the words of Artie Shaw and Jack Nicholson to heart. Crowell took a six-year hiatus to help raise his children, ending...
More »AP - Aug 3, 2005
Shelby Lynne is one hard woman. She greets a visiting journalist without a smile. Within minutes, she accuses him of having already written his story based on preconceptions, and emphasizes how little...
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 »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 »AP - Jun 9, 2004
Country music artists are hardly united in their support of the war in Iraq — but you d never know it from listening to the radio. While Toby Keith , Darryl Worley and Charlie Daniels have scored...
More »AP - Apr 22, 2004
A new group called the Music Row Democrats is trying to shake the perception that country music is full of Republicans. But it won t be easy. Like the 1967 Sonny James hit says, It s the Little Things...
More »AP - Nov 11, 2003
The late Johnny Cash — a pioneer of both country and rock music — was honored with a tribute featuring artists and performances as diverse and far-reaching as his own career. Rosanne Cash...
More »AP - Nov 1, 2003
Singer Kid Rock and country duo Brooks & Dunn are the latest artists to be added to the Nov. 10 musical tribute to Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium, organizers announced Friday. Actor Tim Robbins...
More »AP - Oct 27, 2003
Actor Tim Robbins will be the host of the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute at Ryman Auditorium on Nov. 10. Artists confirmed to take part in the service include Willie Nelson , Kris Kristofferson , Travis...
More »USRN - Jun 1, 1998
(6/1/98) - Nashville is buzzing these days, and it isn t because of some hat-act s hot new single. It s the arrival of 13-year cicadas: large, red-eyed insects that hatch from the ground every 13 years...
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