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Dierks Bentley Names Fourth Album; Due Feb. 3

Dierks Bentley’s fourth studio album, due out on Feb. 3, will keep the title of his first single from the record, “Feel That Fire,” and he’ll debut the video this Friday on Yahoo! Music. Julianne Hough and Chuck Wicks, who have been dating for five months, casually throw out the possibility of the “M” word. The Gruene With Envy Awards are now open for voting. You’re allowed one vote per day. (via Galleywinter) Craig Shelburne posted video of Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson, George Strait and Dierks

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If We Make It Through December

Merle Haggard with a song that could have been written yesterday:

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Rolling Stone List

Brittle Bones at Rolling Stone Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time / Ms. Mix & Bitch I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, Rolling Stone magazine was my version of the Bible. I'd turn to it religiously to find out about emerging artists, tour dates of my tried and true, and other miscellaneous rock-n-roll, behind-the-scenes, tasty nuggets. I also really dug the pictures. That was back in the late '70s/early '80s, and then I discovered boys. So I abandoned the ma

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HAGGARD HOME AFTER LUNG SURGERY

MERLE HAGGARD arrived home five days after having lung surgery in a Bakersfield hospital last Monday morning. It was discovered during a previous biopsy that he had non-small cell lung cancer, which has a far better cure rate than the small (oat) cell cancer. At this time, tests show that they were able to eliminate [...]

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Vacation Songs

Thanksgiving Weekend just didn’t provide enough do-nothing time for me so I decided to take this entire week off and have me a stay-cation. I’m going to re-alphabetize my CD collection, dust my apartment, finish a couple books, write haikus and whatever else I feel like doing. Which will surely include some light blogging. Here are the tunes going through my head: Top 10: Vacation songs 1. Vacation, The Go-Go’s 2. Holiday Road, Lindsey Buckingham 3. Fish and Whistle, John Prine 4. Too Much

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Vacation songs

Thanksgiving Weekend just didn’t provide enough do-nothing time for me so I decided to take this entire week off and have me a stay-cation. I’m going to re-alphabetize my CD collection, dust my apartment, finish a couple books, write haikus and whatever else I feel like doing. Which will surely include some light blogging. Here are the tunes going through my head: Top 10: Vacation songs 1. Vacation, The Go-Go’s 2. Holiday Road, Lindsey Buckingham 3. Fish and Whistle, John Prine 4. Too Muc

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I’m Proud Of _____ Dammit!

Most everybody I think, is proud of their home state of origin. I am. I'm from Michigan, a place that is a cold, snowy hell from November until April. But it's still "My Michigan." When Michigan is put down however, I don't feel the need to threaten the speaker with death for saying that. Just make the fucker spend a winter in the U.P.!:) There are some states that have earned notoriety for producing nut jobs. Florida is one. Keith Olbermann said once, "If it wasn't for Florida, I wouldn't have

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Weekend interlude: Steve Earle

CDM made the assertion the other day that you can't crank country music on your car stereo under any circumstances whatsoever. I think that opinion is somewhat subject to debate; theoretically, anything with a backbeat can be cranked. There were some pretty good hard-edged country artists back in the day whose music sounded good loud - Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr., David Allan Coe for some examples. Waylon Jennings' Ol' Waylon, the only piece of country music I owned back in hig

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Thanksgiving break + Viva playlists

In case you haven't noticed, the site's on a short hiatus while I try to find a better file-hosting situation (Divshare is cool but I keep running out of bandwidth). In the meantime check out my show every Saturday at noon on Viva Radio or check the archives for previous episodes. This Saturday it's country brunch hour with a weirdo folk / mellow psych chaser: Deadheat No. 10 [11/29/08] John Fahey - The Yellow Princess Shep - Good Bill's Street Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City The Byrds - Dr

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MORE OF THE LIVING DEAD

MORE OF THE LIVING DEAD November 28, 2008 – 4:24 am Every Grateful Dead fan will likely have his or her (why not her?) favourite Dead moments. Perhaps yours are among the tracks here. Click on the panels for a better view or to download artwork. GRATEFUL DEAD So Many Roads Outtakes [no label, 2CD] Four years after the death of Jerry Garcia and 1999 saw the release of So Many Roads, the first “in-depth musical retrospective of the Grateful Dead,” a five-CD boxset that chronicled the ban

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Cowboy Haiku

Honky tonk heroes, and smokey old pool rooms, and old pilgrims like me.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thanks for reading. Being disagreeable sorts we probably never say that enough. Or ever. So here's some stuff to watch. Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! (I'm so thankful for Merle Haggard). And because I love you all, here's a link to my July 4th post on the history of Honky Tonk. It works on Thanksgiving too.

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James Taylor - 1971-01-25 - Fillmore East

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are The Journey Of Motherhood with The Story Of My Adoption and Deborah Gamble with Choosing The Wrong Stinks. The other top contenders were Rambling Woods with Serendipity; Mrs Nesbitt with For My Friends In Norway; Eric with My Pele; Jo Beaufoix with The Best Job In The World Ever; Cath’s Cradle with Wordless Wednesday; Merisi with Rainy Morning; Britt-Arnhild with The Last Rose; Leslie with Life Speed; Jo with Hope and Ivan with Merle Haggard and The Depression of 2008.

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peterfeld: Pancho and Lefty: Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, at...

peterfeld: Pancho and Lefty: Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, at the concert for Willie’s 60th. So pretty - best version ever. Even better than Willie’s hit recording with Merle Haggard, or this performance by the writer, the late, great Townes Van Zandt.

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Free DVD: Merle Haggard - Legendary Performances

We’re thankful for a lot of things here at The 9513, but most of all, we’re thankful for you, our readers. That’s why we’re always looking for opportunities to offer you a chance to pick up some kick-ass free stuff–it’s one way we know to show you how much we appreciate your support. Today we’ve teamed up with our friends at Shout Factory to give you a chance to win one of two copies of a new Merle Haggard DVD titled Legendary Performances (more…)

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TV Barn Radio updated

There's a new edition of the one-hour-or-so mix of music and chat from yours truly. This week features Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, Liz Phair, Walt Bodine, Merle Haggard and Chip Franklin -- not all of whom are singing, thank the Lord. Check it out in the sidebar. Look for "TV Barn Radio" in red letters. This is a free service of 8tracks, the coolest site I've used for audio to date.

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Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel Announce Show in Roanake, VA (2/17/09)

 news@wsls.com Country music legend Willie Nelson will play a concert in Roanoke.  The concert will be February 17, 2009, at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre.  Tickets go on sale December 5th, 2008. Information below from a Roanoke Civic Center news release: Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel have announced upcoming tour dates to support the release of their CD collaboration Willie & The Wheel, due February 3, 2009.  A concept thirty years in the making, this new recording is a co

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On the Bus With Jake Owen

When an artist lets you onto his bus, he pretty much lets you into his life. At least, that’s how I felt with Jake Owen. He was in the Chicago area this weekend, and we had the chance to talk before his show. And since we had our interview on his bus, instead of inside the venue, we covered way more than just the music. He told me how he always drinks Aloe Vera Juice before a show, to stay healthy. We compared iPhone apps, and now I’m highly addicted to iHunt and the virtual harmonica. His man

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Get Cover It >>> Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come, Easy Go Disc 1: 1. "Down from Dover", (originally by Dolly Parton) 2. "Hold On, Hold On", with Cat Power (originally by Neko Case) 3. "Solitude" (originally by Duke Ellington & Eddie DeLange) 4. "The Crane Wife", with Nick Cave (originally by The Decemberists) 5. "Easy Come, Easy Go" (originally by Bessie Smith) 6. "Children of Stone", with Rufus Wainwright (originally by Espers) 7. "How Many Worlds", with Teddy Thompson (originally by Brian Eno) 8. "I

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