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Readers’ Pick: Vince Gill and Paul Franklin – Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys

Saturday, August 12, 2023 By Tom Osborne

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You picked Vince Gill and Paul Franklin – Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys as your favorite new release for the week of August 4, 2023.

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Paul Franklin, Vince Gill

Monday Morning Video – Gregg Allman (1947-2017)

Monday, May 29, 2017 By Mayer Danzig

It’s shaping up to be another tough year in the world of music. We’ve just lost another rock icon with the passing of Gregg Allman. Not only was he the writer of songs that have become touchstones in the rock canon, he was – and continues to be – an inspiration to musicians and fans […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Blues, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Dave Matthews, Gregg Allman, Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, Zac Brown

Monday Morning Video – Celebrating the Music of Merle Haggard

Monday, April 11, 2016 By Mayer Danzig

I won’t even try to compete with Shawn’s excellent tribute to the late Merle Haggard. Instead, today we’ll honor his legacy with a playlist of videos from artists singing classics from the Haggard cannon. Herein you’ll find performances from the Avett Brothers, Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson (with Kid Rock and […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Videos Tagged With: Avett Brothers, Dwight Yoakam, Grateful Dead, Jamey Johnson, kid rock, Lyle Lovett, The Mavericks, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson

Bakersfield – Review & Giveaway

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 By Shawn Underwood

Although we tend to think of the rebellion against the slick production values that Nashville country music is perhaps best known for as a fairly recent phenomena, it dates back over 50 years to a group of artists, and a Capitol Records producer, that called Bakersfield, California, home.  The Bakersfield Sound eschewed the strings and […]

Filed Under: Contests, Country, Reviews Tagged With: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Paul Franklin, Vince Gill

David Bromberg and Ry Cooder

Tuesday, November 01, 2011 By Bill Wilcox

The release of new albums by two masters of roots music this summer flew pretty much under the radar. Both David Bromberg and Ry Cooder have churned out album after album of Americana spanning folk to R&B since the early 1970s. Bromberg’s career has been the oddest, with long periods of withdrawal from public performance […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Reviews, Roots Tagged With: David Bromberg, Dr. John, John Hiatt, John Lee Hooker, Keb Mo, Levon Helm, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder, Tim O'Brien, Vince Gill, Widespread Panic

Mayer’s Playlist for March/April, Part 2

Friday, May 16, 2008 By Mayer Danzig

ALBUMS OF THE MONTH: On a Clear Night, by Missy Higgins The first thing that you’ll notice about Australia’s Missy Higgins is her stunning voice, a magical blend of confidence and uneasiness. Opening track “Where I Stood” epitomizes this dichotomy. The song captures the moment where a woman realizes that, despite her emotional attachment to […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Blues, Country, Downloads, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Against Me!, Foy Vance, Jason Isbell, Missy Higgins, Peacemakers, Roger Clyne, Ted Lukas, Tina Dico, Vince Gill

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