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Country Star Couple Donates "Gift of Love"

Hitmakers Mary Stuart & Connie Smith Preserve Country Music History Thanks to the generosity of country singers Marty Stuart and Connie Smith, the Country Music Hall of Fame is now home to even more priceless treasures....

Climb every mountain

By NEAL JUSTIN, Star Tribune Climb every mountain In an attempt to put a focus on environmental issues and to escape from Al Roker, Ann Curry will start climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on "Today" (7 a.m., KARE, Ch. 11), giving her...

Feature: Jessie Baylin - Jersey Girl Goes Nashville

Jessie Baylin's Verve Records debut, Firesight, has garnered attention across the nation, making her a musician to watch over the coming years. Calling it a “collection of a bunch of moments in my life,” Firesight is really...

The Highway men....

Yes Tis True a Metal head at heart BUT alot of you know a different side of me.... My country upbringing. Mum and dad had different tastes in Country Music, Mum loves Slim Dusty Where as Dad is the Older crooners, Kris...

Goings on About Town: CD Boxed Sets

Atlantic Vocal Groups 1951-1963” (Atlantic)--American popular music in the fifties was a stew of jazz, jump blues, and close-harmony groups; by the middle of the decade, rock and roll had taken hold. This four-disk set lovingly...

Stuart, Tritt share chemistry with adoring Troy Hall fans

Onstage at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, waiting for country stars Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart on Sunday, stood two chrome-legged barstools that could have come from Tootsie’s, the celebrated Nashville honky-tonk out the...

A fiddler who fuses folk and classical

NEW YORK - Violinists - even at their most classical - like to call themselves fiddlers. But such persons at the Curtis Institute of Music are about to see what fiddling truly means, with somebody who learned it from backwoods,...

Willie Nelson Interview: Esquire Magazine (9/1999)

by Robert Huber Esquire Magazine 9/1999 I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money. I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of...

Richard Bath: Vast swathes of empty seats at Murrayfield are a cause for concernconcern

Published Date: 16 November 2008 IF SCOTLAND coach Frank Hadden liked much of what he saw out on the pitch yesterday, a shudder must have run down his spine every time he looked up and saw vast swathes of empty seats in the...

Rodney Crowell leaves country music behind

Songwriter Rodney Crowell slipped off country music radio some time ago, but he likes to think that he and his long-standing fans continue their dialogue off the air. "My audience seems to be holding up their end of the...

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