Dave Cobb Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal
Producer, guitar player, and songwriter Dave Cobb has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music. The deal was announced Monday (1-4), and also includes the formation of...
View ArticleCountry & Roots Artists Coming Together to Celebrate Bob Dylan’s 75th
Iconic American songwriter Bob Dylan will be celebrating his 75th birthday on May 24th, and country and roots artist, including many songwriters who cite Dylan as a primary influence on their music,...
View ArticlePast Due: Who Should Be The Next Grand Ole Opry Member?
A big issue with the Grand Ole Opry in recent years has been trying to get standing members to meet their performance obligations. Though the Opry loves to add high-profile names from country's current...
View ArticleCountry Artists Who Are Due to Release a New Record
There's not much worse than having a hankering for some new music from one of your favorite artists, but feeling like you've been waiting forever for it to happen. There are many reasons an artist or...
View ArticleJohn Prine’s “For Better, Or Worse” Is His Best-Charting Album Ever
The ripe age of 70 is one hell of a time to experience a resurgence of interest in your music career, and that's exactly what's happening for country songwriting legend John Prine. Celebrating his...
View ArticleFacts, Rumors & The Most Anticipated Albums for 2017
Just what 2017 has in store for us in the country music department remains to be seen. But we do know about what to expect in the release department for at least the first quarter of the year, while...
View ArticleHolly Williams Has a Good Excuse for the Delay in New Music
For the better part of two years now, country music fans with any sort of taste have been waiting not-so-patiently for the long-awaited arrival of the Dave Cobb-produced fourth album from 3rd...
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...
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