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Charlie Louvin, Influential Country Star, Dead at 83

Ebet Roberts, Getty Images Charlie Louvin, who, along with his brother Ira, influenced numerous country and rock performers from Dwight Yoakam and Emmylou Harris to Gram Parsons and the Byrds, has died from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 83. Charlie's wife Betty, to whom he had been married for 61 years, confirmed to ...

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Paul McCartney Rocks Nashville for the First Time

PA Photos Paul McCartney played to a sold-out crowd at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Monday night, his first-ever concert in Music City. It wasn't the iconic musician's first visit to Nashville, however. For six weeks in 1974, McCartney and company set up shop at a farm outside of town, riding horses and recording material for 'Band on the ...

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Shelby Lynne Shares Her 'Tears, Lies and Alibis'

Country/pop chanteuse Shelby Lynne is set to release her latest album, 'Tears, Lies and Alibis' on April 20. The project will be the first on the singer's own newly-founded label, Everso Records. Described as a sparse, intimate collection, the 10-song disc was entirely written and produced by the Grammy winner. It's the follow-up to her 2008 ...

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John Fogerty Rocks Nashville's Ryman Auditorium

The sound of a lonesome fiddle ringing out from the stage of Nashville's venerable Ryman Auditorium just before the curtain rises is nothing unusual. But it was also no indication of what was to come when John Fogerty and his nine-piece band ripped into 'Hey Tonight,' and nearly a dozen other Creedence Clearwater Revival swamp-rock classics. ...

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Bob Dylan Poem a (Hank) Snow Job?

Time Magazine once called singer-songwriter Bob Dylan a "master poet." And while he's written some of the most important, influential works of a generation, an early piece of "poetry" he was believed to have penned is now causing some confusion. On May 19, Christie's auction house announced the sale of a handwritten manuscript containing 'Little ...

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Johnny Cash Inspires Daughter Rosanne's 'List'

Of the life lessons she learned from her father, Rosanne Cash can credit one particular course of study with helping to shape her next recording project. Cash's new album, 'The List,' was inspired by just that -- a list her dad, Johnny Cash, gave her when she was 18 years old. "He called it the '100 Essential Country Songs,' and said if I learned ...

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Lucinda Williams Recording Protest Album

Lucinda Williams will follow her upcoming studio album 'Little Honey' with a digital-only EP comprised entirely of protest songs. The project, dubbed 'Lu in 08,' will feature four live tracks, including covers of Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth,' Bob Dylan's 'Masters of War' and 'Marching the Hate Machines Into the Sun,' which teamed ...

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