This week in country music (10/5 to 10/11)
There wasn’t a whole lot that happened this week, but I’ll try to pull together something.
Headlines
Dierks Bentley and wife Cassidy give birth to their first daughter Evalyn Day Bentley.
Investors.com digs into Randy Traywick’s (Randy Travis) backgorund. They state that he was drinking by the age of 12, and soon later had moved onto drugs and other illegal activities. [...]
This week in country music (9/28 to 10/4)
Headlines
Jamey Johnson featured on the Rolling Stones Music Blog.
Waylon Jennings new album Waylon Forever is set to release 10.21.2008.
The Great Smokey Mountains National Park has named Dolly Parton as the official ambassador for the 75th anniversary of the park.
Clint Black will appear on Celebrity Apprentice.
The Grand Ole Opry will honnor Little Jimmy Dickens as the longest standing member with [...]
Waylon Jennings’ Album Finally Complete
Shooter Jennings finally completed work on his late fathers album titled Waylon Forever. It will be a collaboration between Waylon and Shooter with Shooter’s band the .357’s The project was started way back in 1995, and was only finished recently when Shooter went back to the studio to record tracks for Waylon’s vocals. The first [...]
What happened to country music?
What has happened to the traditional country music sound? I remember when I was little and the music I heard then can not be compared to the new pop country. Granted there are still a select few mainstream artists that still stick to the traditional country sound. Now to some of the artists that make [...]
Automatically back up MetiaTemple Grid (gs) via Amazon S3
I’ve been doing this for couple months now, and thought I’d share it with you guys. Christina Warren has written up some excellent instructions on how to back up MediaTemple’s Grid (gs) to your Amazon S3 account. There is also a video. I haven’t yet checked out the video, but I have a feeling it’s [...]
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