The site has a news item today noting that George Jones is winding it down. But a long wind down it will be: He is embarking on a year-long goodbye tour and...
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Country star George Jones has started a year-long goodbye tour, according to Reuters. The tour started this month and is scheduled to conclude in November...
The power is out again. The End of the World–sung by Skeeter Davis–seems to be about right. What’s your favorite song of the apocalypse?
Jimmie Rodgers was an important figure in country music despite the fact that he only lived until his mid thirties. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry...
Yesterday, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum launched a Patsy Cline exhibition that will run until next June. The charismatic Cline’s best known...
John Fahey is one of the most unique guitarists ever. He was eccentric–I’ve heard a few stories over the years–and very influential. Here...
Billboard must be really good: These are labeled as the top country songs for the week of August 18. Seriously, they probably can deduce what will happen from...
Bobbie Gentry was born on this day in 1944. This is her classic Ode to Billie Joe.
Taj Mahal has been around forever. The only thing that seems to have changed is that he gained a bit of weight. He still sounds great. Mahal released one of...
Kitty Wells, called The Queen of Country Music, has died at age 92 in Madison Tennessee. Wells, originally Ellen Muriel Deason, was born on August 30, 1919 in...
