Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

Those Darlins Summer/Fall Tour Schedule

Those Darlins Summer/Fall Tour Schedule
Here’s their full schedule through the first of October, so you have no excuses not to get out and see these snaggle-tooth mamas kick some serious ass at a dive bar, road house, or art museum (?) near you. C’mon, you know you want to see ‘em live and in person! Maybe Kelley will jump...
June 23rd, 2010 | Artists, Features, Tours | Read More

Brad Paisley concert leads to 46 arrests in N.Y.

Brad Paisley concert leads to 46 arrests in N.Y.
I don’t know if there’s anything more humiliating than being drunk and disorderly in public — except maybe being in the local paper for being drunk and disorderly in public. After Brad Paisley‘s show in Darien Lake, N.Y. on Friday night (June 18), the local police made 46...
June 22nd, 2010 | Features | Read More

‘Nothing Like This’ summer tour starts in N.C. for Rascal Flatts

‘Nothing Like This’ summer tour starts in N.C. for Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts’ “Nothing Like This” tour kicks off this Friday, June 25, in Raleigh, N.C. The trio will perform 28 shows this summer through Sept. 19. ““We hope to take our fans on a chronological musical journey of the last yen years of music and aim to squeeze in the most...
June 22nd, 2010 | Features | Read More

Spotlight on Megan McCormick – “Honest Words”

Spotlight on Megan McCormick – “Honest Words”
Out of the wilds of Idaho and Alaska, Megan McCormick has settled in Nashville. Her fiery debut, Honest Words, hits you from the opener, “Shiver”, a down-and-dirty song of obsession and addiction, and never lets up. McCormick packs quite a punch with her gorgeous and powerful voice (somewhere between...
June 21st, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Jim Avett Talks About Family, Nashville, New CD “Tribes”

Jim Avett Talks About Family, Nashville, New CD “Tribes”
When asked about his plans for Father’s Day, Jim Avett simply said, “Not a thing. There’s nothing special about Father’s Day as far as I’m concerned. I get the gift of being a daddy every day.” If you’re ever lucky enough to spend an hour talking with this...
June 19th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Katzenjammer “Le Pop” Nettwerk Records

Katzenjammer “Le Pop” Nettwerk Records
Being new to the world of album reviews, I decided to just write whatever popped into my head while listening to Le Pop for the first time (not unlike anything else I write, ever). So: I generally love things with bells and accordion-sounding instruments, so this sounds really promising from moment...
June 19th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

Win Free Copies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s New CD!

Win Free Copies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s New CD!
We love Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new CD, The Age of Miracles. Judging by the emails we’ve gotten here and the many comments over at our No Depression page, fans are also excited. In case you missed it, people are saying wonderful things about her music: …a mostly quiet album, yet luckily...
June 19th, 2010 | Contests, Features | Read More

Jack Rose with D Charles Speer & the Helix “Ragged and Right” Thrill Jockey

Jack Rose with D Charles Speer & the Helix “Ragged and Right” Thrill Jockey
In the spring of 2008, post-Takoma, American primitive guitarist Jack Rose set off on a tour with D Charles Speer and the Helix.  Along the way, they listened to a lot of Three Track Shack era Link Wray – especially the songs “Scorpio Woman” and his version of “In the Pines.”  Rose was so...
June 18th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

David Nail tries ‘Making the Team’ with the St. Louis Cards

David Nail tries ‘Making the Team’ with the St. Louis Cards
David nail swings and … well, you’ll see how he does trying out for the St. Louis Cardinals, during his “Making the Team” series  airing at CMT.com. The webisodes feature Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, Mark McGwire and new music by David Nail. Watch all five episodes at CMT.com,...
June 16th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Country Music Hall of Fame member Jimmy Dean dies at 81

Country Music Hall of Fame member Jimmy Dean dies at 81
Country Music Hall of Fame member Jimmy Dean died Sunday night (June 13) at his home in Varina, Va., at age 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, told The Associated Press her husband had health problems but was still functioning well and was looking forward to his formal induction into the Hall of Fame...
June 14th, 2010 | Features | Read More

12 Questions with Derek Hoke

12 Questions with Derek Hoke
Twelve is an iconic number. There were the 12 Tribes of Israel, there are 12 eggs in a dozen, and 12-step programs. Twelve is also a sublime mathematical number, there are 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 disciples of Christ, 12 months in a year, 12 strikes to a perfect game in bowling . . . we could go on...
June 13th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Age of Miracles – (Zoe/Rounder Records)

Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Age of Miracles – (Zoe/Rounder Records)
Five-time Grammy Award winner Mary Chapin Carpenter is lucky to be alive. She suffered a pulmonary embolism back in 2007 and nearly died. From the first strummed acoustic chords on her newest effort, The Age of Miracles, we suddenly realize we are the lucky ones, fortunate enough to be treated to her...
June 13th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More

CMT Awards: From a local’s point of view

CMT Awards: From a local’s point of view
I won’t say I wasn’t star-struck, because that would be a lie. But I was star-struck from a distance, across the span of an arena, separated by a hundred yards of teeming, screaming fans. And I was star-struck in a way that only happens when you know you might see one of these people any given day...
June 12th, 2010 | Features, News | Read More

John McEuen – “Workingman’s Banjo”

John McEuen – “Workingman’s Banjo”
No doubt, John McEuen is a lot of things to a lot of people.  He’s a multi-instrumentalist, founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, solo artist, producer, documentarian, film scorer, concert promoter, and XM radio host.  In addition to being a husband and father of six, he’s also a close...
June 12th, 2010 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Nashville Scene: How NOT to Act at Bonnaroo

Nashville Scene: How NOT to Act at Bonnaroo
Middle Tennessee is the place to be. Yes, the Big B. Bonnaroo. For those of you who’ve been living Eric Rudolph-style in caves off the grid for the past few years, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester,...
June 10th, 2010 | Artists, Features, News | Read More

Billboard Features Jewel’s Cover of Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done”

Billboard Features Jewel’s Cover of Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done”
Jewel covers Neil Young In support of her new album, Sweet and Wild, and as part of this week’s Mashup Mondays series on Billboard.com, Jewel covered Neil Young’s “The Needle and the Damage Done.” Jewel “puts a feminine, breathy, melancholy-but-gentle twist on the Canadian rock...
June 9th, 2010 | Features, News | Read More

Zac Brown Band releases USO Tour documentary “For Those Who Serve”

Zac Brown Band releases USO Tour documentary “For Those Who Serve”
Zac Brown Band captured their April USO Tour in the Persian Gulf in an exclusive documentary film, “For Those Who Serve.” The film features the band performing for the troops, meeting individually with men and women in uniform stationed far from home and sharing their thoughts on the experience....
June 9th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Kid Rock prepares to party at CMT Music Awards tonight!

Kid Rock prepares to party at CMT Music Awards tonight!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Kid Rock won’t be too far out of his comfort zone as host of the Country Music Television Awards. It will be kind of like throwing a party. “They’re just kind of loose and fun, and they’re geared that way – to have fun,” he said of Wednesday’s...
June 9th, 2010 | Features | Read More

NBC News Anchor Brian Williams A Big Deer Tick Fan

NBC News Anchor Brian Williams A Big Deer Tick Fan
BREAKING NEWS! This just in, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is a huge Deer Tick fan — he considers them to be “a great band.” (OK, so this isn’t “breaking news” — we just couldn’t resist.) Back in April, Williams interviewed Deer Tick on MSNBC’s...
June 8th, 2010 | Artists, Features, News | Read More

Imelda May – Love Tattoo – (Verve Forecast)

Imelda May – Love Tattoo – (Verve Forecast)
Dublin-born rockabilly sensation Imelda May is further proof that the Irish are the European torchbearers of soul. Backed by a band that includes her husband Darrel Higham on guitar, she alternately growls, shouts, purrs and croons on Love Tattoo, her first major-label release. (Her debut, No Turning...
June 6th, 2010 | Album Reviews, Features | Read More
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