Archive for the ‘Favorites’ Category

10 Questions with Coy Bowles from Zac Brown Band

10 Questions with Coy Bowles from Zac Brown Band
The motto is: Do what you love, love what you do. That certainly seems to be the way the members of Grammy-Award winning Zac Brown Band look at life. The band’s debut album, The Foundation, is platinum certified, and played a big role in landing the boys with a Best New Artist award in 2009. Their...
July 16th, 2010 | Favorites, 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

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

Interview: Bucky Covington

Interview: Bucky Covington
When someone comes of age in a town with a name like Rockingham, North Carolina, you’d better hope they can live up to that reputation. Bucky Covington has been Rockingham’s finest Ambassador of Rock since long before his stint on Season 5 of American Idol, and you’d best believe...
April 17th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

7 questions with Luke Bryan

7 questions with Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan sure is a busy man. Born and raised in Leesburg, Georgia, he graduated from high school and went off to Georgia Southern University, where he worked on his songwriting, played shows and self-released his own album. After moving to Nashville, Bryan signed with Capitol Records, released...
April 14th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

David Nail hopes for first win at ACM Awards

David Nail hopes for first win at ACM Awards
From Missouri to Music City, you could say MCA recording artist David Nail has come quite a long way. On Sunday, April 18, Nail will find himself in the audience at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, in Las Vegas, waiting patiently to see if he scored a win for Single Record of the Year...
April 13th, 2010 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

James McMurtry Interview

James McMurtry Interview
“Rock & Roots or Roots & Roll, whatever you want to call it – we challenge you to find a description that fits other than good music you can count on when you thought maybe you just couldn’t count on music anymore!”  That quote from Lilly Ruby, the Webmaster of www.jamesmccmurtry.com...
March 10th, 2010 | Favorites, Interviews | Read More

Phil Vassar: I did it my way

Phil Vassar: I did it my way
Phil Vassar isn’t new to writing foot-tapping, heart-pumping songs that inspire and get you thinking. He’s penned No. 1 hits like, “Just Another Day in Paradise” and “In a Real Love,” and his current single, “Everywhere I Go,” is climbing the charts. His...
December 30th, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album.

CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album.
Rosanne Cash’s new album, The List, could be called the Dead Sea Scrolls of country music. A strange analogy, but an entirely apt one for a disc with twelve tracks by Cash from a list of 100 essential country and roots songs compiled for her by her father, the legendary Johnny Cash, when she was...
November 17th, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Randy Houser is Keeping His “Boots On” – Interview

Randy Houser is Keeping His “Boots On” – Interview
One year after the release of his debut hit album, “Anything Goes,” singer/songwriter Randy Houser lands himself with two nominations for the 43rd annual Country Music Association awards, including New Artist of the Year. Houser’s second single off the album, “Boots On,”...
October 6th, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence
There’s no doubt, when you hear a Tracy Lawrence song, you know it’s him. No one can imitate his unique sound. But, Tracy’s new album, “The Rock,” may surprise you. “It has some pretty challenging vocals on it,” Tracy says. “It’s still me, you’re gonna know it’s me.” But,...
September 6th, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss/Soggy Bottom Boys)

Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss/Soggy Bottom Boys)
The image is forever burned into our pop-culture consciousness. George Clooney, sporting overalls and scruff, wailing “Man of Constant Sorrow” in the Coen Brothers’ twangy Odyssey O’Brother, Where Art Thou? Then, there’s the man behind that scene: bluegrass singer-songwriter Dan Tyminski,...
August 31st, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Gloriana

Gloriana
Country can be hip. And country can be tech-savvy. We all know this, of course, but thanks to the newest generation of pop-country artists, soon the whole world will know. Gloriana, the fresh-faced quartet who gained incredible fan momentum this summer opening for Taylor Swift, is a clear example:...
August 21st, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Larry the Cable Guy

Larry the Cable Guy
By Juliette Vara You see it all the time plastered on bumper stickers, the creative mastermind behind the popular catchphrase “Git R Done” is now on tour sharing his comedic one-liners with thousands of fans. If you watch Nascar, eat at Hooters, shop at Wal-mart, or pass gas on a regular...
December 17th, 2008 | Favorites, Interviews | Read More

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton
Q: You’ve come a long way from Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Can you still claim to be backwoods? A: Yes, and proud of it. I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I’m still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie. Q: Congratulations on your...
November 18th, 2008 | Favorites, Interviews | Read More

Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels
interview by Mike Hennessey Charlie Daniels, “Preachin’, Prayin’, Singin’” – Blue Hat Records, 2008 Charlie Daniels arrived in Nashville in 1967 with a wife, child, and a literal twenty dollar bill in his pocket. In a few short years, he was lending his fiddle to...
November 18th, 2008 | Favorites, Interviews | Read More

Darius Rucker

Darius Rucker
On the heels of his new album, Darius Rucker is getting set to tour with Brad Paisley. Rucker’s album, Learn to Live, hit number one on country charts, only a step behind his first country single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” CMG spoke with him about the sudden country fame. Country...
October 22nd, 2008 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music)

Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music)
by Tim Rynders Country Music Pride: How have the first few shows gone? Does it feel like you never stopped playing as HWM or does it feel like a distant dream? Chuck Ragan: They’ve gone and felt absolutely incredible.  The friends, fans and general turnout has been overwhelming and it’s...
October 3rd, 2008 | Favorites, Interviews | Read More

Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show
by Jesse Hill On September 23rd, Old Crow Medicine Show will release their third album Tennessee Pusher, a beautifully cinematic and empathetic album about a people and from a people, the American people, the people from which this musical tradition is sprung. After going into the lost alleys and forgotten...
September 20th, 2008 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

Mike Seeger – “Last Known Interview”

Mike Seeger – “Last Known Interview”
The Vine of American music grew slowly at first. Traditions were passed down from person to person. Music and musicians were relatively isolated, unique to each region. This slowly shifted as people arrived here from a wider range of countries, settled more of the country. The advent and growth of recording,...
September 18th, 2008 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More
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