“We tried every possible song. Then I was driving to the editing room one day and I had the wedding mix from my wedding in my car. I was listening to stuff on it, it brought back memories, then ‘In Your Eyes’ comes on. ‘I drive off in my car!’” he gushed, quoting Gabriel’s [...]
I didn’t see that in this show. I got no sense of tradition, outside of George Strait. I saw a belated fly-by salute to Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Vince Gill, Mel Tillis and Ralph Emery. Dwight Yoakam, in what I wonder was done by his insistence, gave a fitting tribute to the late [...]
Congratulations, rap music! The mothers of Middle America have another reason to hate you: research shows rap is the most likely genre of music to mention substance use, with a whopping 80 per cent of songs making note of doping up. But don’t think you cowboys are off the hook, either: 37 per cent [...]
Accepting the entertainer award, Chesney said: I can’t believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer and get to sing the songs that I sing. I want to thank George Strait for paying for dinner last night. My band, my crew … my mom’s with me tonight and I [...]
CMT GIANTS: HANK WILLIAMS JR. SPECIAL HAS KID ROCK HANK WILLIAMS JR. SALUTED BY ALL HIS ROWDY FRIENDS: KID ROCK, TOBY KEITH, STEVEN TYLER, TIM McGRAW, ETC. The big news is that Kid Rock and a bunch of hard-drinking fellas got together to have a good time– and a fight didn t break out! [...]
The BlackBerry Curve allows me to rock while I ride. I m always on the road and the curve lets me play great stereo music while checking my corporate e-mail on the go. I can even showcase the “Led Zeppelin–The Ride” video over a business dinner or send construction update photos out instantly. A [...]
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ROMEOVILLE Lewis University will welcome the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band to its Romeoville campus for a performance on Monday, Nov. 26 as part of the University s fall 2007 Touring Performing Arts Series. Open to the public, the performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Philip Lynch Theatre, located on the Lewis [...]
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Its follow-up, “Killing the Blues,” offers a gloriously restrained Plant falsetto floating the rueful observation “somebody said they saw me / swinging the world by the tail” over a heartbreaking pedal steel guitar, while Krauss’ s harmonies hammer home the sorrow. Easiest point of comparison? Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball (Elektra), definitely.