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, of the Dan Tyminski Band and Alison Krauss and Union Station, still one of […]
With all the hustle and bustle of the season at hand, p-l-e-a-s-e don’t forget your four-legged furry friends this Monday December 5, 2011. Show Dog-Universal Music recording artist J.T. Hodges is hosting his first ever Holiday Howler charity event to benefit the Brown Dog Foundation. Please take a moment to support Hodges in his very […]
CMA Week brings music fans from all over the world to the country music capital, Nashville, TN. MCA recording artist David Nail is kicking off his CMA Music Fest experience with an intimate fan appreciation party at Tin Roof on Demonbreun Street at 3 PM on Wednesday, June 8. The Missouri native wanted to give […]
Taylor Swift might stand “gigantically tall” at a reported 5′ 11″ but the Big Machine recording artist Speaks Now and not a minute too late about being put down. “There’s constructive criticism, there’s professional criticism and then there’s just being mean.” “Mean”, Taylor Swift’s newly released video and current single off her sold-a-million-copies-in-a-week third album Speak […]
Martina McBride’s video for her current single, “Teenage Daughters” gives us a behind the scenes look at Martina in all three of her roles: wife, mother and (the one we all know her for best) singer. The video takes place in her home away from home, the recording studio, and reminds us just how down […]
One year ago, Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist in the world. Now, who is? Maybe Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga? It does not come as any great surprise that it’s Lady Antebellum. Their Need You Now is the best-selling album in all music genres in the world for the first half of this […]
Iconic golfer John Daly, or to those familiar with his backswing – “Long John” – released a new album off Nashville-based digital recording company GMV Nashville. “I Only Know One Way” is Daly’s second studio recording, and includes a mix of country, blues, ballads and covers. Country star Darius Rucker is also featured on the […]
Nashville recording artist Dierks Bentley will release “Up on the Ridge,” a raw, true-to-his-roots bluegrass album on June 8. Bentley co-wrote five of the tracks, and enlists the help of singers Alison Krauss, Tim O’Brien and Kris Kirstofferson to supplement the album. Listeners can get a sneak peak by visiting USMagazine.com, which is currently streaming […]
It took thirty-four years for “I Wasn’t Born to Rock ‘n Roll” to be reissued on cd, and we should be thankful to Tompkins Square for seeking out lost treasures like this. Roland White may not be as immediately recognizable outside of bluegrass circles as names like Bill Monroe or Lester Flatt, but he has […]
We are saddened today to learn of the death of Kate McGarrigle last night from cancer. She was 63. McGarrigle performed widely with her sister, Anna, for more than three decades, recording 10 albums. She was also well-known for being the matriarch of a musical family, the Wainwrights. McGarrigle was the mother of singers Rufus […]
