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Song Premiere: Katie & The Honky Tonks – Women of Country Music

Wednesday, June 04, 2025 By Chip Frazier

We at Twangville are excited to be premiering a song by Katie and the Honky Tonks. The song is off of their highly anticipated debut album, Ain’t No Shame, out June 27th. The title of the song is Women of Country Music and it will be released on June 6th. This track is pure Classic […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Americana, Country, Reviews, Streams, Up & Comers Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Emily Nenni, Katie and the Honky Tonks, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline

Victoria Liedtke and Jason Ringenberg – More Than Words can Tell

Wednesday, April 03, 2024 By Chip Frazier

Victoria Liedtke and Jason Ringenberg have paired their voices to create an album of duets. However, why just do ordinary duets when you can dial up the challenge? They decided to take on the duets of legends Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner for a new album, “More Than Words Can Tell”. Outside of George Jones […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Reviews, Videos Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Jason and the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg, Porter Wagner, Victoria Liedtke

SXSW 2022 – The Sounds, Part 1

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

DOLLY PARTON What can be said about seeing Dolly Parton for the first time? The hits, the stories, the people weeping with joy around me – it was spectacular. And playing “9 to 5” twice – the second time so the audience could sing it – was tremendous. LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, SXSW Tagged With: Balto, Barfield, Beatnik Bandits, Bendigo Fletcher, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Dolly Parton, Evan Dando, Ferris & Sylvester, Greyhounds, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, The Lemonheads, The Madisons

Monday Morning Video – A Double Dose of “Jolene”

Monday, May 04, 2020 By Mayer Danzig

One of the other covers that Larkin Poe have included in their series is the Dolly Parton classic “Jolene”. Here’s their version, as well as a wonderful string-laden version by Parton herself.

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Videos Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Larkin Poe

Monday Morning Video – Kenny Rogers (1938 – 2020)

Monday, March 23, 2020 By Mayer Danzig

Many of us got to know Kenny Rogers through his solo hits of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, not to mention his duets with everyone from Dolly Parton to Lionel Richie. Before that, however, Rogers made some magic with the First Edition, including this classic, which came around again in 1998 when it was […]

Filed Under: Country, In Memoriam, Pop, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

Newport Folk Festival 2019 – Looking Back at the Big Names

Wednesday, August 07, 2019 By Jeff McMahon

Surprise guests are really nothing new at Newport Folk Festival but the 2019 edition highlighted a particularly timely legendary performer in Dolly Parton. The emcee of the Saturday night performance was Newport Folk Festival stalwart Brandi Carlile (introduced by Executive Produced of the Newport Folk Festival Jay Sweet) who introduced the country legend. Parton regaled […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Newport Folk Festival, Pop, Reviews, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, Jeff Tweedy, Sheryl Crow, The Highwomen

Monday Morning Video: Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

Monday, August 06, 2012 By Mayer Danzig

Chances are that you’ve seen Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers cover of Hall & Oates “I Can’t Go For That.” It has gone viral and has nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube. The cover is part of their Van Session series, recorded with an iPhone in their van as they tour (the video descriptions include […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Videos Tagged With: Dolly Parton, George Michael, Hall and Oates, Kenny Rogers, Nicki Bluhm, Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

Tift Merritt + More, Releases 2/26/08

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 By Tom Osborne

TIFT MERRITT, Another Country (Fantasy) Official Site | MySpace | Stream | MP3 While we all sit back and sigh a brief moment of relief to know that Jamie Lynn passed her GED this week. Its good to know that there’s a bunch of new music we can send her as a graduation gift. After […]

Filed Under: Americana, Downloads, Folk, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Austin Collins, Cowboy Junkies, Dolly Parton, Missy Higgins, punch brothers, Richard Julian, Tift Merritt

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