AP - Jun 15, 2009
Sopranos star Drea de Matteo and her longtime boyfriend, country singer Shooter Jennings, are engaged. Amanda Silverman, publicist for de Matteo, says Jennings proposed to the 37-year-old actress at...
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Back when Shooter Jennings set out to make an album with his dad, country music star Waylon Jennings, he was 16 years old and a big fan of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The result was a collection...
More »Reuters - Aug 12, 2008
Waylon Forever, billed as the final recordings from country outlaw Waylon Jennings, will be released October 21. The eight-song Vagrant Records set features remakes, surprising covers and a new Jennings...
More »AP - Feb 9, 2007
Country took its turn in the Grammy week spotlight with LeAnn Rimes, Marty Stuart, Charley Pride and Porter Wagoner among the stars calling attention to efforts to preserve vintage country audio and video...
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 26, 2006
Shooter Jennings doesn t wear his heart on his sleeve it s somewhere much more permanent than that. On the singer-songwriter s left forearm, underneath a sprawling tattoo of a gun, are inked...
More »AP - May 17, 2006
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are slated to join Keith Urban, the Black Crowes, Big & Rich and Nickelback at Rock n the Valley, a five-day music festival to be held this August in South Dakota during...
More »Reuters - Apr 30, 2006
Take 600,000 people, tens of thousands of motorcycles, more beer and barbecue than anyone can imagine ... and add music. The biggest motorcycle enthusiast gathering in the United States is turning up...
More »E! Online - Apr 12, 2006
Their name might be Flatts, but this country trio spiked right to the top of the charts. One week after T.I. set the yea s single-week sales record with King, Rascal Flatts reset the bar several...
More »AP - Apr 4, 2006
Shooter Jennings, Electric Rodeo (Universal South) Shooter Jennings should have listened to the advice his father gave when he chastised other country singers for leaning too hard on a renegade stance...
More »AP - Feb 23, 2006
Rocking out instead of easing into retirement, Jessi Colter sounds as vital now as she did 31 years ago when her hit I m Not Lisa broke beyond the conservative boundaries of country music. Back then,...
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 »Reuters - Jan 5, 2006
I ve been circling, Jessi Colter says. The recording had to happen at the right time and the right place. Colter s circling is over: The queen of 70s outlaw country, who scored hits in her own right...
More »AP - Jan 3, 2006
Joaquin Phoenix, whose portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line has made him an early Oscar front-runner, returned Tuesday to the scene of one of the musician s most famous concerts Folsom State...
More »Reuters - Dec 12, 2005
Kanye West, Shakira, Maroon 5 s Adam Levine and Fall Out Boy lead the lineup for MTV s 14th annual New Year s Eve broadcast, which will begin at 10:30 p.m. ET. Common, All-American Rejects and Young...
More »AP - Aug 5, 2005
If anyone seems born to write and sing songs, it s Holly Williams. Her grandfather is American music icon Hank Williams, her father the country outlaw Hank Williams Jr. She released her debut album last...
More »AP - Aug 2, 2005
Sometimes, the offspring of famous parents view their lineage as more of a burden than a benefit especially when they pursue the same profession. You won t hear any of that talk from Shooter Jennings...
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