Reuters - Apr 24, 2009
Steve Earle knew the singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt so well that he watched him play Russian roulette one night when he was drunk and admires him so much that he named his son after him. After establishing...
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Stephen King s taste in music is more eclectic than scary. The best-selling author reveals his seven picks for the best albums of the year in Entertainment Weekly s Dec. 7 issue. In truth, your Uncle...
More »AP - Oct 4, 2007
In every sense of the word, Steve Earle feels at home here. He revels in walking the same Greenwich Village streets that Bob Dylan did and living in a neighborhood where the local deli is a United Nations...
More »Reuters - Jul 6, 2007
Singer/songwriter Steve Earle will release his New West debut, Washington Square Serenade, on September 25,. The 12-track set was produced by the Dust Brothers' John King and features a duet with...
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 - Oct 2, 2006
More than 25,000 people rocked to John Mellencamp s Little Pink Houses, sung along with Dave Matthews Crash into Me and raised more than $1.5 million for farming at this weekend s Farm Aid concert....
More »Reuters - Sep 27, 2006
You could say Americana, that indefinable roots music, is the new punk rock. But the punks in question are older and make a lot of money. Last week, a record 1,200 people turned up in Nashville for...
More »E! Online - Aug 31, 2006
Farm Aid is ready to kick out the jams and, um, polkas. With the annual daylong music fest turning 21, founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp unveiled an eclectic lineup for this year...
More »AP - Aug 31, 2006
This year s Farm Aid benefit concert will feature not only the nearly annual show s mainstays such as Neil Young and Willie Nelson, but also genres from polka to reggae. The lineup for the Sept. 30...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »E! Online - Jun 14, 2006
Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000 tour wookiees. Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be welcoming fans back to Manchester, Tennessee, beginning...
More »Reuters - Mar 21, 2006
Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainwright, Moby and surprise guest James Iha marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Monday during a concert in New York interspersed with speeches by anti-...
More »AP - Feb 22, 2006
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and REM frontman Michael Stipe will headline a New York concert to urge the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The concert, dubbed Bring Em Home Now! will be held at...
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 26, 2006
Take me down to your dance floor . . . No one was dancing as Gram Parsons voice wafted over the sound system at Hollywood s Harmony Gallery on Friday evening, but the place was rocking anyway. Some...
More »Reuters - Dec 7, 2005
There have been times when Shilah Morrow of Sin City Marketing has been maddened by her nickname Mama Shi, for actual mothers have to change diapers and do other messy everyday chores. But Morrow is very...
More »AP - Dec 2, 2005
It s late morning and the guys from Cross Canadian Ragweed are beat. Cody Canada drifts into the coffee shop a few minutes late and plops down beside bandmates Grady Cross and Jeremy Plato. His clothes...
More »Reuters - Nov 23, 2005
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo, whose career has been sidelined since 2003 by a battle with hepatitis C, is working on an album that is being produced by Velvet Underground co-founder...
More »Reuters - Sep 19, 2005
ARTIST: BON JOVI ALBUM: HAVE A NICE DAY (ISLAND) People like Bon Jovi for its power-chord-laden songs and Jon Bon Jovi s gravelly vocals. But the frontman has been touting Have a Nice Day as a new...
More »AP - Aug 29, 2005
Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks veered down a Red Dirt Road two years ago and never looked back. The duo s new album, Hillbilly Deluxe, is a twangy rock n roll record with some soulful ballads and rowdy...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2005
The Americana Music Assn. will pay special tribute to songwriter John Hartford, who died in 2001, and to singer/songwriter Judy Collins at its fourth annual Honors & Awards on September 9 in Nashville...
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