Posts Tagged ‘american’
Toby Keith “On an American Ride” – Review
Toby Keith has become one of country music’s go-to guys when it comes to masculine, patriotic, rapid-fire lyrics, and those songs have made him a hero to people across lines of age, sex, and political lines across the country and beyond. His signature style is threaded through his work, and he’s...
October 22nd, 2009 | Record Reviews | Read More Win 2 Free Tickets and meet Rascal Flatts this weekend in California!
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This offer comes from JC Penney, who are promoting their American Living apparel line on Rascal Flatts’s summer tour. If you’re a Rascal Flatts superfan (What do Rascal Flatts superfans call themselves? Flattlanders? Flattulents?), CMP is giving you...
October 15th, 2009 | Contests | Read More Rodney Crowell "Sex and Gasoline" Yep Roc Records
by Mike Hennessey
Rodney Crowell is a critically-acclaimed member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame with thirty years worth of chart-topping, Grammy-nominated music behind him. However, his latest release, Sex and Gasoline, arrives with a tired title stripped from the album’s faintly...
November 10th, 2008 | Record Reviews | Read More Billy Bragg – Duke University, Durham, NC
by Daniel Bayer
November 1, 2008 – Duke University, Durham, NC
“I love this folk music shit, don’t you?” asked British left-wing singer/songwriter Billy Bragg before launching into another one of his Curtis Mayfield-meets-Joe Strummer guitar riffs. Unaccompanied by anything other...
November 3rd, 2008 | Concert & Tour Reviews | Read More 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 Keith Anderson "C'MON!" Sony
by Jody Mason
High Country Boy
All-American songwriter Keith Anderson has been writing music since his boyhood in Oklahoma and has finally released “C’MON!”, an album that rallies the American spirit and taps into his romantic side at the same time.
The title track “C’MON!”...
September 20th, 2008 | Record Reviews | Read More Levon Helm "Dirt Farmer" Vanguard Records
Lindsey Oechsle
“Ramble On: Levon Helm has yet to dance his Last Waltz”
Sometimes even the strongest soldier falls, but folk rock legend Levon Helm is still peacefully battling on. His latest victory—overcoming throat cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 1996—inspires the 2007 release...
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Phil Vassar: I did it my way December 30, 2009 17:12 -
CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album. November 17, 2009 11:11 -
Randy Houser is Keeping His “Boots On” – Interview October 6, 2009 01:10 -
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Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss/Soggy Bottom Boys) August 31, 2009 19:08 -
Gloriana August 21, 2009 10:08 -
Larry the Cable Guy December 17, 2008 18:12 -
Dolly Parton November 18, 2008 16:11 -
Charlie Daniels November 18, 2008 00:11 -
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Laura Cantrell Sings “Kitty Wells’ Dresses” at Radio Free Song Club March 14, 2010 13:03 -
Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” Version Two March 12, 2010 08:03 -
Bret Michaels teams up with Miley Cyrus on new single March 11, 2010 06:03 -
James McMurtry Interview March 10, 2010 22:03 -
The Drive-By Truckers’ Balancing Act March 5, 2010 21:03
- JS: "Rad"? C'mon, Ms. Cyrus, this isn't 1990. And Bret, lose the hat -- what are you hiding? We all know you're bald....
- Jayne: Mr Ed should be Liz Durrett (http://lizdurrett.com/) and Chesnutt has no extra T in it!...
- oldfarmerwholivedonarock: Her new single, "That's God" is something of a snoozefest. She needs to release some better music if she wants to gain n...
- Gary: It truly is amazing the life that this man has lead both on and off the stage.It goes to show you what itestinal fortitu...
- Jason Estopinal: o baby there is no hiding the fact that i think the avetts sold out big time and will do anything they can to make a buc...
