MERLE HAGGARD is gearing up for the road once again after a brief illness had him sidelined for several shows. The dates which were postponed in January are being rescheduled for April and Merle's previously booked tour with his longtime band, The Strangers, begins as planned on February 28 in Tucson, Arizona at the Fox [...]
Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for February 02, 2012 01. Todd Farrell - Ninebullets Theme Song 02. Shooter Jennings - Southern Family Anthem 03. The Drive-By [...]
Twelve artists set Hank Williams' unfinished songs to music, with mixed results.

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie / photo by Dave Lichterman Quite possibly invigorated after his recent split with Zooey Deschanel, Death Cab For Cutie front man Ben Gibbard has rallied the troops and will be playing a slew of dates around the globe beginning in February. The North Amercian leg of the tour will kick off in April and feature Youth Lagoon opening a number of performances, including their May 13 stop at The Paramount in Seattle. Not only that, but the US and Canadian dates will feature [...]

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 [...]
Filed under: News Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images We're wishing a speedy recovery to Merle Haggard , who was hospitalized in Macon, Ga., Tuesday night (Jan. 17). According to Nashville's WSMV-TV , the 74-year-old country icon fell ill prior to a scheduled performance and was rushed to a local hospital. Merle's tour manager, Frank Mull, confirms to the Ledger-Enquirer that the singer had been sick since leaving his California home last week. However, [...]
Last night's episode was the 1st annual "Ninebullets Loosely Themed Christmas Radio Extravaganza Hour!" Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for December 22, 2011 . [...]

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! [...]
Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December" can be found here .

Everybody knows that Ringo Starr left Rory Storm and The Hurricanes to replace Pete Best in The Beatles. This month, Ringo's replacement in the Hurricanes passed on at the age of 67. As a bandleader, Keef Hartley later played at Woodstock. He died on November 27. It is not very well known that boxing legend Joe Frazier , my favourite fighter of all time, was also a bit of a soul singer. Some of his stuff cashed in on his boxing background; the song featured here is a straight soul number, and it's pretty good. [...]
Thanks to April from NowThisSound and Charlie from Old Gray Mule ! BONUS! Merle Haggard on The Waltons

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 [...]

Beck I wrote, and deleted, my original Thanksgiving editorial. I'm opting for this instead: a collection of live videos of artists that I like as much as I like cornbread dressing (no, not stuffing, dressing). Happy Thanksgiving. Steve Earle - "I Feel Alright" (Live) Son Volt "Catching On" (Live) Nikki Lane - "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Live) Merle Haggard - "Misery and Gin" (Live) Vern Gosdin "Chiseled in Stone" (Live) Jason Isbell - "Alabama Pines" [...]

Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the playlist for November 17, 2011 . 01. Glossary - Little Caney 02. Merle Haggard - Working Man's Blues 03. Drive-By Truckers [...]

I'D LIKE TO THANK WACKIE JACKY FROM THE EARLY BIRD WAKE UP SHOW FOR SITTING IN FOR ME DURING THIS SHOW. Ninebullets Radio is a radio extension of the blog ninebullets.net that airs every Thursday night in Tampa, Florida on WMNF 88.5 FM at 10pm Eastern. The show is archived for one week after it's original air date and is available for streaming here . Also, don't forget to head over to Facebook and like the Ninebullets Radio page . Below is the [...]

Today is Veterans' Day in the United States - a day we set aside each year to honor and give thanks to the men and women who have defended our many freedoms. Veterans' Day is close to the holiday season that includes Thanksgiving and Christmas, and that helps us to remember that many of these brave people in uniform will not be home with family and friends over that celebratory time. Thank you for your sacrifice, and your patriotism. MP3: "Sam Stone" by John Prine [...]

How y'all doing? It's been a little while since we did one of these. I wish I had a real excuse but, to be honest, I don't. I felt the pressure of doing a weekly radio show and as a result, the podcast got pushed to the background. Well, that's not the case any longer and with that said, let's focus on this show and not the missed shows of the past few months. Once again out good friend from the Northwest, Lollyrae , sent us some beers and I went to drinking them during the podcast. [...]