Eddy Arnold - The Tennessee Plowboy And His Guitar
Eddy Arnold is the most successful performer ever to appear on the Billboard Top Country Singles chart. His sustained dominance included 43 Top Ten hits from 194551 alone. It is understandable if this comes as a surprise. Prior to the release of this five-CD set, it was impossible to locate
Bob Dylan - Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
And He said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him, but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good were it for that man
Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman And Bernadette
"I just want to be Aaron Neville," deadpanned Vic Chesnutt, the consummate wag, on "Sad Peter Pan", a song from his 1995 album Is the Actor Happy? Here, one suspected, was Chesnutt -- a quirky cracker whose creaky warble is but a chirp compared to Neville&
Connie Smith: Too Cool to be Forgotten
By 1979, after slowly weaning herself off the road, Smith quit the business to stay at home with her kids, who now numbered five. Feminists painted her as a reactionary, as a successful woman who had forsaken her career. Looking back now, though, Smith’s decision seems a gutsy one;
Junior Brown With The Last Mile Ramblers - Fiesta de Los Cerrillos (Cerrillos, NM)
The drunk guy bellowing, "Junior Brown! Junior Brown!" before the music started obviously was a relatively new fan of the deep-voiced singer who invented the guit-steel. Brown's longtime fans in these parts know him and refer to him by the name he now says he hates:
Souled American - Honing the art of self-cultivation
"You can magnify beauty, take it apart, see how it got to be so damn pretty. You take a song and you look at it real close, and what happens? Well, first of all, you have to slow it down a bit to really hear what's going