Tag: country music
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September 03, 2008 04:43 PM EDT --
Country singer Patty Loveless grew up in the hills of Appalachia, in Pikeville, Kentucky, where she learned the mountain sounds of bluegrass, gospel, and folk music. She also heard, over her radio . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
In an earlier conversation, award winning banjo player and composer Alison Brown spoke about her career as a musician. There's another side to her musical coin, though: more than dozen years ago, . . .
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April 04, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
This event has been reset for June 14th. All other details remain the same. Check out the online site if you aren't able to attend --it's a great cause.
Terri Allard's music . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:13 AM EDT --
Emmylou Harris remembers her first guitar. "The strings were set so high off the neck that it hurt to push them down!" she recalls. "But I didn't know anything about guitars, I thought . . .
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February 12, 2009 02:33 PM EST --
Country star Kathy Mattea has done some thinking about the people who listen to her music. They range across the spectrum of age, race, nationality, and lifestyle, she finds, but they have one . . .
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April 04, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
"I have the best conducting job in the world," says Paul Gambill, music director of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra . "It's way too much fun!" A typical evening Gambill . . .
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July 12, 2007 07:14 AM EDT --
On any given evening, a concert by Austin based duo Christine Albert and Chris Gage might take you from the dusty backwoods of Texas to a bistro along the Seine, from a Louisiana jive joint to a high . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
Tim O'Brien's latest recording, called Chameleon, came out of a decision to take a break from the way he'd been handling his career in recent years. Not that he stopped performing, or producing, . . .
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May 05, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Roads, highways, journeys begun, and what lies at the end of the road, and how to make it through the trip -- all ideas which inspire songwriters and musicians. Writers, as well -- Phil and Carol White, . . .
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May 21, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
Good Thing Going, the title cut of Rhonda Vincent's latest album, had its start, as many good songs do, in a conversation. The bluegrass musician was on the road, getting ready for a gig in . . .
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July 24, 2008 07:37 AM EDT --
"It's got to come from the heart if you want it work" is a line Kathy Mattea sings in one her country hits. Mattea has always been good at that, whether she's singing about the love . . .
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July 08, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
"I'm going to have to put in some beans. We might get a beanstalk and climb up to Nirvana!" Adrienne Young says with laughter. Though it's not the easiest thing for a touring . . .
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April 19, 2007 07:42 AM EDT --
One of Marty Stuart's earliest memories is of music, church bells, ringing across the fields in Philadelphia, Mississippi. That southern Philadelphia where Stuart grew up was a crossroads of . . .
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June 19, 2008 07:12 AM EDT --
Mark O'Connor has been thinking about what America sounds like almost since he first picked up guitar and fiddle as a child growing up in Seattle. When he went back to his hometown lthis summer, it . . .
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August 19, 2009 03:16 PM EDT --
From Ireland to Iraq, from Wisconsin to Texas, musicians are drawing on landscape, history, and family to create lots of great music this summer. Here are several recordings for you to check out:
Tish . . .
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