Don’t Lump Country’s Women Together, Let Them Stand Toe to Toe with the Men
Boy how the entertainment media loves to ruminate on country music's female dilemma, and how unfair it is that so many fine and talented female voices are going unheard. It's the perfect topic for...
View ArticleHank Jr. Noticably Absent from Reinstate Hank
When Hank Williams III’s album Damn Right, Rebel Proud went to #2 in the charts last year, this was a significant development in the movement to Reinstate Hank Williams to the Grand Ole Opry because of...
View ArticleHolly Williams Signs Reinstate Hank Petition
Holly Williams, daughter of Hank Williams Jr. and half sister of Hank Williams III, signed the petition to Reinstate Hank Williams into the Grand Ole Opry after a show in Paradiso, Amsterdam earlier...
View ArticleRelease of Controversial Unfinished Hank Williams Songs
The Rolling Stone has just reported that a long-rumored project pairing Bob Dylan and Jack White together to oversee the recording of an album of Hank Williams songs that were found without music in a...
View ArticleHank Williams Jr. Supports the Reinstate Hank Movement
Hank Jr. and Holly were asked to perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame as part of their ongoing exhibit "Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy". In the video, Hank Jr., under his purple long...
View ArticleHank Williams III Raises $18,000 for Happy Tails Humane
On Friday August 3rd Hank3 played his 4th Happy Tails concert benefit at the Marathon Music Works in Nashville, a newer venue who donated the space for the event. Dubbed "One Big Wag," Hank3 and his...
View ArticleHolly Williams Finds Her Voice On “The Highway”
Before this album, I'd been mostly opinion neutral on Holly Williams. Being the granddaughter of Hank Williams, the daughter of Hank Jr., and the sister of Hank3 appointed her music the respect of more...
View ArticleAlbum Review – Son Volt’s “Honky Tonk”
As one of the original members of Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar is one of the forebearers of the alt-country sound that now has morphed into the all-encompassing Americana behemoth that...
View ArticleNashville’s Sex War: Gender Marketing in Music
When it comes to country music, it is the best of times, and the worst of times depending on if you're talking about male or female artists. While it's easy to focus on the awful, inane music from...
View Article9 Women Who Could Immediately Make Country Better
We've talked about 7 Men Who Could Immediately Make Country Music Better, now let's take a look at 9 women who could do the same. It's been well documented that here in 2013, the women of country are...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Best Songs of 2013 So Far
I'm not sure if how light the selection is for potential Song of the Year candidates at the halfway marker says how anemic 2013 has been so far for top flight songs, or how fortunate we were in 2012 to...
View ArticleSaving Country Music’s Best Albums of 2013 So Far
2013 has come on strong here recently for quality albums, with some real contenders for the coveted "Album of the Year" distinction released just in the last week. Any "Best Of" album list for 2013 is...
View Article2013 Americana Music Awards Winners & Recap
The 2013 Americana Music Awards once again transpired in Nashville at the historic Ryman Auditorium as part of the week-long Americana Music Conference. Delbert McClinton lead off with Hank Williams'...
View ArticleWhy The Stagecoach Festival Lineup is a Good Thing
A couple of days ago, The Stagecoach Festival out in California announced their 2014 lineup, capped by headliners Eric Church, Jason Aldean, and Luke Bryan. Since its inception 7 years ago, Stagecoach...
View Article2013 Saving Country Music Song of the Year Nominees
When you sit down to assemble a list of candidates for Song of the Year, you almost start to tremble in the face of so much creativity, inspiration, and insight, and grow humbled by how fortunate we...
View Article16 Great Sons & Daughters of Country Music Greats
Country music isn't just a genre of music, it is a musical religion, a way of life, a cultural lineage passed down from generation to generation and preserved through the blood and bond of its...
View ArticleStella June Is Newest Member of the Hank Williams Clan
One of country music's most famous families is now bigger by one. Holly Williams, granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Williams Jr., gave birth to Stella June Coleman on Tuesday, Sept....
View ArticleHolly Williams Sounds Off on “I Saw The Light” Hank Williams Movie
We've heard Hank Williams III's thoughts on the biopic about his grandfather I Saw The Light starring the British-born Tom Hiddleston as Hank set to be released on November 27th, and we've heard from...
View ArticleHall of Fame Partners with Google to Make Williams Family Exhibit Available...
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has partnered with Google to bring the Family Tradition exhibit to life once again, and do so online so anyone in the world with an internet device can explore...
View ArticleDave Cobb’s Upcoming “The Southern Family” Concept Album Includes Incredible...
There's something much interesting brewing that's bigger than any one artist at the moment---an expansive concept record dealing with artists' experiences growing up in the South. The project was first...
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