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Week ending 1/19/13: #1 singles this week in country music history
1953 (Sales): Jambalaya (On The Bayou) — Hank Williams (MGM) 1953 (Jukebox): Back Street Affair — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1953 (Disc Jockeys): Back Street Affair — Webb Pierce (Decca) 1963: The Ballad of...
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George Jones remembered
With the passing of George, all the radio heroes of my early childhood, except Ray Price, have gone from the scene. I can’t tell you exactly when I became cognizant of George Jones, as he seemed to...
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Classic Rewind: Dean Martin –‘For The Good Times’
Dino’s take on the Kris Kristofferson classic that was voted Song of the Year by the Academy of Country Music and was a #1 for Ray Price in 1970: Filed under: Classic Rewind
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Album Review: Pam Tillis –‘It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis
Leaving Arista might have marked the end of Pam’s commercial heyday, but it led to a taking stock and artistic resurgence which began with a reflection on her roots. As a youngster Pam Tillis had...
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Classic Rewind: Willie Nelson –‘Hello Walls/Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips...
Willie singing snippets from some of his early cuts by other artists:Filed under: Everything Else
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Willie Nelson: The early years
Willie Nelson, alone among his contemporaries, continues to be an active and prolific recording artist. Not only is he releasing albums at a pace that would leave today’s stars thoroughly exhausted,...
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Week ending 10/12/13: #1 singles this week in country music history
1953 (Sales): A Dear John Letter — Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky (Capitol) 1953 (Jukebox): A Dear John Letter — Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky (Capitol) 1953 (Disc Jockeys): Hey Joe!– Carl Smith...
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Willie Nelson: the country duet albums
Whatever else one may think about Willie Nelson, there are two things that are absolutely true about the man – he has a strong sense of the history of the genre and he believes in paying it forward and...
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Album Review: Willie Nelson & Ray Price –‘San Antonio Rose’
The Urban Cowboy days of the early 1980s are justifiably criticized as an era in which country music was drowning in a sea of pop influences and overproduction and on the brink of losing touch with its...
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Classic Rewind: Ray Price –‘Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes’
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Classic Rewind – Ray Price & Roger Miller –‘Invitation To The Blues”
BREAKING NEWS: It’s official this time: Country music has lost another – it’s just been confirmed by close friend and DJ Bill Mack that Ray Price died today. He was 87 Years Old. Here he is singing...
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Ray Price Remembered
With the recent passing of legendary singer Ray Price, the chapter closes on the last of the great male honky-tonk singers of the 1950s. At times overshadowed by contemporaries such as Webb Pierce,...
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The best reissues of 2013
2013 was a bad year for fans of traditional country music and its near cousins.Not only was radio virtually devoid of traditional country sounds, but Billboard bastardized its country charts to the...
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Album Review: Ray Price –‘Beauty Is … The Final Sessions’
Ray Price’s swan song was recorded last year while the legendary singer was battling pancreatic cancer. Beauty Is … The Final Sessions is a combination of countrypolitan and traditional pop, in the...
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Classic Rewind: Ray Price –‘Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)?’
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Album Review: Mary Sarah & Friends –‘Bridges: Great American Country Duets’
18 year old Mary Sarah Gross (who has, like many very young performers, dropped her surname for professional purposes) has been performing country music since her childhood. Discovered on Youtube by...
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Album Review: Gene Watson –‘My Heroes Have Always Been Country’
A new album from Gene Watson always is cause for celebration, and My Heroes Have Always Been Country is no exception to the rule. What you get with this album is eleven excellent traditional country...
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Gene Watson interview revisited
In 2009, I had the opportunity to interview Gene for the now quiescent http://www.9513.com after the release of his A Taste of The Truth album. *** PWD: I read recently in an interview that was done on...
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Album Review: Gene Watson –‘Honky Tonk Crazy’
One of the ironies of the rise of the neotraditional movement in the late 1980s was that it swept away some of the old guard who had been keeping more traditional sounds alive on country radio. Gene...
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Album Review: Randy Travis –‘Influence Vol 2: The Man I Am’
The first volume of Randy Travis’s recordings of classic country covers came out last year, not long after his health issues came to a head. I was afraid this second volume would consists of lesser...
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