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. [...]
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 [...]
Tips from the Top: The Making of the Beatles’ “Please Please Me”
With the release of the Cirque du Soleil soundtrack compilation album Love, Beatles fans (who never seem to grow tired of hearing the same old songs arranged in a brand new way) once again have yet another carefully conceived product to add to the collection. As good a time as any, in fact, to take [...]
Tales from the Top: Johnny Cash’s ‘At Folsom Prison’
In January 1968, America was quickly coming apart at the seams. The war in Vietnam had boiled over, hastening President Lyndon Johnson’s demise and creating a firestorm of political tension. As rock music increasingly became the voice of dissent, Nashville, the acknowledged seat of social conservatism, stood in sharp contrast with its tales of drinking, [...]
George strait murder on music row
George strait murder on music row
I couldn’t agree more with this song!
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