Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards Douglas Mason, Getty Images Levon Helm 's 'Ramble At The Ryman' has won Best Americana Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The former the Band singer and drummer had one the same prize for the Grammy's inaugural Americana award in 2010 for 'Electric Dirt.' Helm beat out country and Americana stalwarts Ry Cooder , Lucinda Williams , Emmylou Harris [...]
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Tweet Beginning the record with a dancehall radio ballad dream entitled "Eulogy For Whiskers, Part 13 , Whitehorse certainly set themselves apart from the crowd of country-folk mix that seems to have suddenly permeated the country. What is perhaps even more incredible, though, is the follow-up to this lazy, tripped-out modern take on a ballad is unmistakable rockabilly rock 'n' roll with harmonies to boot on "Killing Time Is Murder" , which is available for free download [...]
Apocryphally, If I Needed You came to Townes Van Zandt wholesale, in a dream, wherein he envisioned himself a famous folksinger, and the song as his biggest hit. When he awoke, he wrote the song down, changing but one line in transcription, and the rest, as they say, is history. Of course, Townes did indeed become famous, though partially posthumously, and surely not on the same scale as he envisioned in his nocturnal emissions. But as I've noted several times in these virtual pages, I discovered the work of [...]
This compilation is not accompanied by an instalment in the country history, because the next chapter goes with the next mix. And, in some ways, it makes sense that this mix has no history (of course, the timeframe is covered by past articles in the series) because the late 1970s was a time of hiatus. Many of the stalwarts of just a few years earlier ceased having strings of hits, and those artists who had grown out of the Outlaw movement now had their day. In this mix, the likes of Guy Clark, John Anderson, Larry Jon Wilson [...]
Emmylou Harris : Christmas Time's A-Coming [ purchase ] Country music Christmas albums: Bah, humbug. They are almost all forgettable, often featuring the same couple of dozen songs, ( "Little Drummer Boy," anyone?), philharmonic-style string arrangements and overly solemn vocals. But there's one I will defend: Emmylou Harris's first and only Christmas record, "Light of the Stable." And not just because it's the only Christmas record I know of with a Neil Young song as the title track. It's a significant record because it heralded (hark!) Emmylou's neo-traditional [...]
Seeing as the History of Country series is proving so popular, let us put on a Santa-red Stetson and have a country Christmas. This lot is old-skool: Ernest Tubb riffs (badly) on his 1941 honky tonk classic, Loretta Lynn socks it to it disagreeable Santa, while Brenda Lee aims to lassoo him, yee ha. George Jones goes X-Mas twisting, and Buck Jones provides some serious pathos. And if you had to choose one man to sing Little Drummer Boy, it would have to be Johnny Cash, right? Hey, even horrid old Jingle bloody Bells sounds good here! [...]
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Thanks in large part to country-influenced acts like The Byrds, The Grateful Dead and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, rock fans were starting to dig the country scene — not Nashville's crooners or John Denver, of course, but the Outlaws, Gram Parsons and some of the old pioneers. Some of California rock's great names had their roots in playing bluegrass; people like Eagles co-founder and Flying Burrito Brother Bernie Leadon, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and the singer-songwriter J.D. Souther, who wrote for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, the Texan "Queen of Rock" who made her start as a country [...]
This is from her album Light of the Stable.
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Emmylou Harris : Wrecking Ball [ purchase ] Gillian Welch w Old Crow Medicine Show : Wrecking Ball [ unavailable, purchase studio version ] I suspect that we are going to see this week how certain metaphors strike different songwriters. A wrecking ball is a fine example to start with. Emmylou Harris makes a pun on the word ball, and her narrator invites a boy to a dance. The danger is implied rather than stated, and the song [...]
Emmylou Harris has said of the alt-country songwriter, "She is an example of the best of what country at least says it is, but, for some reason, she's completely out of the loop and I feel stro
Top shows to get your week started right: ► With their first album in eight years "The Great Escape Artist" on the way Oct. 18, Jane's Addiction does the first of two nights at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. That's the band's video for "End to the Lies," above. ► Dum Dum Girls headline the Troubadour behind the release last week of their excellent sophomore album "Only in Dreams." Crocodiles open. ► Toro y Moi, who already has followed up his buzzy 2011 album "Underneath the [...]
Once again, I'm embracing some serious dad rock. Monday 10/3/11 [Pick of the Night] Emmylou Haris @ Largo ($60) - Can't think of her without thinking of Gram Parsons. [Recommended] Dum Dum Girls / Crocodiles / Colleen Green @ Troubadour ($15) [Recommended] Toro y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Bass Drum of Death @ El Rey ($22) [Recommended] Jane's Addiction @ John Anson Ford (Sold Out) [Recommended] Peter Bjorn and John / Emperor X @ The Smell (Sold Out) [...]
Another benefit is going down again Scenestar readers. This time instead of Fiona Apple, it's Emmylou Harris! You can see Emmylou Harris play in support of The Frostig School at Largo at the Coronet on Monday, Sept. 3. The Frostig...
Country stars re-tell the story of Mark Twain.
Luxury Liner ranks as Emmylou Harris' best-selling solo record to date, and it's one of her most engaging efforts as well; her Hot Band is in peak form, and the songs are even more far afield than usual, including Chuck Berry's "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and Townes Van Zandt's painterly tale of aging outlaws, "Pancho & Lefty." Read more »
Busy Tuesday for legends as well as locals: ► Emmylou Harris and Her Red Dirt Boys headline the Greek Theatre, with Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller supporting. Harris' 21st album, "Hard Bargain," came out in April. ► Steve Earle and the Dukes visit the House of Blues. Earle's new album "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" came out in April. ► Thurston Moore plays a sold-out show at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. ► Duran Duran headlines the Nokia Theatre, with [...]
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