On Friday, TDMB posted a blog about Pablo Casals. It led off with a quote in which he said that the life of one child is worth more to him than all of his...
Tag - country music
A Conversation with Jessica Campbell This is an edited version of responses to questions The Daily Music Break posed to Jessica Campbell, a young Nashville...
There are brilliant writers and performers who work within a genre and produce something that has one foot — or even a toe or two — outside it...
Buck Owens, who was inducted in The Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, was born in 1929 in Sherman, Texas. His bio traces his musical roots: The musical...
Elvis is the King, but Roy Acuff is the King of Country Music. The stories of how performers got started invariably are interesting. Here is the beginning of...
Here is the first paragraph of the Associated Press story on the passing of Cowboy Jack Clement: “Cowboy” Jack Clement, a producer, engineer, songwriter and...
Roy Acuff: The Wabash Cannonball/Back in the Country Glen Campbell: Rhinestone Cowboy/Wichita Lineman The Carter Family: Cannonball Blues Johnny Cash: Cocaine...
This is a long excerpt from Wikipedia’s entry on Merle Haggard, but it is very interesting. It seems that a small percentage of the many kids who start...
I usually shy away from posting on bands or performers for whom I can’t find video. After all, seeing the acts is as much fun and illuminating as hearing...
Bill Monroe (1911-1996) is known as the Father of Bluegrass Music. His very nice site offers a tremendous amount of information. Here is the beginning of a...
