Lefty Frizzell - That's the Way Love Goes: The Final Recordings of Lefty Frizzell
Perhaps Lefty Frizzell knew he was getting ready to check out. By 1972, his emotional, financial and physical health was failing. He'd gone eight years without a top-10 hit, and Columbia, the label he had blessed with a flurry of hits in the '50s, let him go.
Richard Buckner - Devotion & Doubt
In the liner notes to Devotion & Doubt, Richard Buckner says he originally wrote "Song of 27", the album's final track, "as a theme of sorts for an album I wanted to make based on my own family's characters. I abandoned the project
Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
"We claim Gram Parsons as our unholy ghost, minister of the shotgun wedding of country and rock 'n' roll long before the Eagles crashed the reception."
--No Depression Vol. 1, No. 1
If you accept this assertion, then Sweetheart Of The Rodeo is our Pentecost, the
Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour
Truth is, I know next to nothing about Ernest Tubb. I should, of course, and so the arrival of this 456-page opus from Ronnie Pugh, who spends his days as head of reference at the Country Music Foundation, seemed a good start.
Ernest Tubb is all that last sentence suggests:
Caution Horse - Trust the man with the star
Everyone knows about The Arch, but most people don't realize St. Louis has a Walk of Fame. In U City, the neighborhood around Washington University, the sidewalks are decorated with large bronze stars naming important cultural figures who have ties to St. Louis. Actress Betty Grable, fastballer Bob
Billy Jack Wills And His Western Swing Band - Self-Titled
While Billy Jack Wills may not be nearly as well-known as brothers Bob and Johnnie Lee, he and his short-lived band created some of the most exciting and innovative Western swing ever recorded.
The youngest of the Wills brothers, Billy Jack got his start playing in his older brothers'