In January, the marvelous website couchsurfing.org brought us a terrific set of houseguests: a couple from the beaches of California asked to stay in my home while they came to Colorado to pick up the due-any-day baby that they had just been chosen to be the adoptive parents of. For two weeks we got to host them and their brand new little guy, all wide eyes and stretching fingers. It was, in a word, magnificent. We forget that they make people that little, that new. Light as air and just about perfect. As I am wont [...]
For the 16th week since it was released in February 2011, Adele's 21 has topped the Billboard charts, selling over ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ adele-tops-billboard-ties-tita nic-billy-ray-cyrus-/60682/
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A dozen autumns ago I moved to Minneapolis from South Dakota, and it was then that I learned how all'a ya can't shut up about one thing: The Halloween Blizzard of '91.
The newest issue of Oklahoma Today is officially on newsstands today. This issue is a special Oklahoma country music collector's edition, with six different covers available. "With our state's incredible history and talent in every conceivable facet of country music, even we are a little surprised it took us fifty-five years to produce this issue. It includes a state-of-the-genre feature written by Holly Bailey, senior political reporter for Yahoo! News; a discography by Ryan LaCroix; and a history piece on Roger Miller by Randy Krehbiel. Thanks [...]
Inspired by Oklahoma Today 's September issue focusing solely on country music, we'll be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Country Songs over the next several weeks. Every weekday, we will unveil another five songs that helped shape the way Oklahoma country music is heard by the outside world. 5. Reba McEntire - "Fancy" (1991) Purchase: iTunes Although Bobbie Gentry's 1969 original earned her a [...]
Inspired by Oklahoma Today 's September issue focusing solely on country music, we'll be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Country Songs over the next several weeks. Every weekday, we will unveil another five songs that helped shape the way Oklahoma country music is heard by the outside world. 10. The Highwaymen - "Highwayman" (1985) Purchase: iTunes Originally written and recorded by Erick's Jimmy Webb [...]
Inspired by Oklahoma Today 's September issue focusing solely on country music, we'll be counting down the Top 100 Oklahoma Country Songs over the next several weeks. Every weekday, we will unveil another five songs that helped shape the way Oklahoma country music is heard by the outside world. 65. Tommy Collins - "If You Can't Bite, Don't Growl" (1966) Purchase: iTunes Tommy Collins' early [...]
Garth Brooks and J.J. Cale will be two of the fifteen inductees for the 2011 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame . "This is an amazing group of songwriters and songwriter/artists. Every one of them is extremely worthy of induction, and it is our honor to place each of their names in nomination." - John Van Mol, chair of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation (NaSHOF) Brooks is nominated in the Singer/Songwriter category. Other nominees include Larry Gatlin, Amy [...]
The Oklahoma History Center unveils it's exhibit, "Pickin' and Grinnin': Roy Clark, 'Hee Haw' & Country Humor," to the public today. The 3,000-square-foot exhibit features recreations of the "Hee Haw" cornfield, barbershop and porch sets, as well as plenty of history and video of the show. Nearly forty Oklahoma musicians appeared or performed on the show, including Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Brooks and Dunn, Conway Twitty, Wanda Jackson, Hank Thompson, Patti Page, Anita Bryant, B.J. Thomas, Hoyt Axton, Sheb Wooley, Roger Miller, [...]
Artists don't always make the best decisions. Perhaps they just get bored. Reinventing themselves after every album must get tiresome. I guess that's why some musicians choose to collaborate with people from other genres. Leaps of faith, even if they are doomed to failure, are more interesting than repeating the same old song and dance. Finding out the hard way that something is a bad idea is more exciting than going through the motions of what has been done before. Oftentimes though, it's best to stick with what you know. Otherwise you end [...]
Garth Brooks and Leon Russell will be two of the six inductees for the 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame . "We are inspired by the striking caliber and range of the 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame class. (They) each represent a unique breed of artist, warmly respected by their peers and revered by all lovers of song. As songwriters, their work has forever enriched our world's music." - Songwriters Hall of Fame chairman Jimmy Webb The other inductees for [...]
I love it when I hear celebrities are doing good especially when it's as good as this. According to reports, Garth Brooks did something major for the city of Nashville by performing a string of concerts in the area. Sources are saying that fans came in droves to the city for the gigs and spent a rather sizable fortune on local albums. In total, the legendary country singer helped raise an astonishing $10 million. That's on top of the pre-Christmas $3 million raised for the local flood victims through the gigs. Now that was a gift that Nashville surely needed. [...]
Don't hate me, just let the fans lead on this one, because that's what YouTellConcerts is all about. Plus, I have never been big on Garth Brooks. That said, when Garth Brooks comes to Nashville and sells out nine shows as part of a flood benefit, you can't just "not go." I decided to hit up Thursday night's 10pm (12/16) show. Yes, he pulled a double-shift. My company holiday dinner had just finished at a restaurant across the street from the arena as the 7pm crowd spilled into the street. I had an hour or so to kill [...]
Garth Brooks will be a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (NBC, 10:35pm CST) tonight. Tonight's appearance will mark Brooks' 22nd appearance on the show.
Albums I Am Not a Human Being - Lil Wayne Somehow despite being in jail the best known member of the Young Money, Cash Money Billionaires crew manages to release an album. All prerecorded before his incarceration Lil' Waynes' newest album picks up where his last album Rebirth left off. Unfortunately, that means that most tracks are worth a listen, but overall aren't up to the supreme quality of his best album, The Carter III . The Rock and the Tide - Joshua Radin [...]
Today marks one of the biggest dates in country music history. Nineteen years ago, Garth Brooks did something that no artist within the genre had ever done before. His Ropin' The Wind album had been one of the more anticipated releases of 1991, as sales for his previous album, No Fences, had gone through the roof, thanks to such Brooks classics as "Friends In Low Places" and "The Thunder Rolls." His label, Liberty Records, was expecting solid sales from the album. The debut single, "Rodeo," was moving up the singles chart quickly. [...]
The year was 1992. For Martina McBride , it seems like it was yesterday. Her first single, "The Time Has Come," had just been released, and she was in her East Nashville home one night when she heard the record played on the air for the first time on WBVR 101.1 FM out of Russellville, KY. There have been many changes in the life and career of the top-selling artist, and on Monday, she sat down with Billboard's Wade Jessen for a conversation concerning her career at the Country Music Summit, held at Nashville's Hermitage Hotel. The [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Let's face it: Spelling bee champs aren't likely to become rock stars. Yet every now and then a rock star will try to prove he or she is an ace speller. While the US' annual National Spelling Bee finals in Washington, D.C. this week reminds us that it's "i" before "e" except after, ah . . . whatever that was, we figured this was a good time to look at some of the more memorable songs with spelling in them. [...]
The 45th Annual ACM Awards are now a thing of that past, but the opinions will flow about Sunday night's CBS telecast as much as the wine (and other beverages) in Las Vegas. With that said, LimeWire Music Blog offers our thoughts on everything about the awards. THE HOST: I thought that the eternally ageless Reba McEntire did a fantastic job as the emcee of the broadcast. She was the perfect host before her WB sitcom, but her comedic skills and timing are so much better as [...]
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