Happy 75th Birthday, Waylon Jennings!
June 15th would have been Waylon Jennings’ 75th birthday anniversary and also marks 10 years since he lost his fight with diabetes. He and his late friend, Buddy Holly were born in west Texas nine months and forty miles apart. They were booked to fly together on a small plane
When Johnny Cash Made ABC Censors Walk The Line
The Smothers Brothers - Dick and Tom - are hailed as freedom-of-speech heroes for their battles with CBS network executives who censored, and eventually cancelled, their trippy 1967-69 "Comedy Hour." But few followers of music and TV history are aware that Johnny Cash also stood up to the
Butler May: was he the real Father of the Blues?
Acknowledgements:
I sincerely thank Kevin Nutt of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and the Alabama Folklife Association for putting at my disposal the writings of Doug Seroff and Lynn Abbott, published in: “Tributaries, Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association”, 2002, Joey Brackner editor.
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Sunset Cowboys: Kinky Friedman, Bob Dylan & Co. (Circa '76)
SUNSET COWBOYS: KINKY FRIEDMAN & BOB DYLAN—A BURRITO FIESTA ON SUNSET STRIP
By Bill Conrad
Who rents an apartment nine floors above the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, throws a house-warming fiesta that attracts stars of music and screen, then vacates the premises the next day? Answer: the
Town and Country discuss gay-marriage country song "Everybody Wants to Say I Do": Johnny Cash would have "loved it"
Q: "Everybody Wants to Say I Do" tackles the sensitive topic of marriage equality. How do you think mainstream country audiences will react to it?
Brian Woodbury [songwriter/producer]: That remains to be seen.
Rob Shapiro [singer/frontman]: I'm going to say that they are going
Sandy Denny Reissues - Sandy (1972) and Rendezvous (1977)
Island records are reissuing three of Sandy Denny’s albums from the 1970s. We chose to review Sandy (1972) and Rendezvous (1977 – the year before her death) as they demonstrate some real contrast in her solo output, with Rendezvous proving to be a weak swansong for such a great artist,