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Tag Archives: Americana
Brosseau: Posthumous Success
Album out in UK 11May09 Continue reading
Telluride Bluegrass Lineup
or JC’s snarky quips about people who practiced their instruments while he read books. Continue reading
Truveo: Leftover Salmon & Telluride Bluegrass
“Years In Your Ears… a story of Leftover Salmon” on Current TV Continue reading
Texcentric Show
Sand Sheff is a singing cowboy’s singing cowboy. He’s been there and done that, from Music Row to Colorado’s Western Slope. He had a great release a couple years ago called Free On This Mountain, and a trifecta follow-up of … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, CO, cowboys, jcshepard.com, Music, MySpace, TX
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April Fool's
Cadillac Sky‘s “Inside Joke” Put together by the great Eric Maxwell and his Amazing Mind this video blazes new cinematic trails and basically, will “probably” upend the music video business. Shot back in October, we thought it had been lost … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, bluegrass, humor, jcshepard.com, Music, video
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T for Texas
Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933) was one of the first “stars” of country music. Often known as the Singing Brakeman, Rodgers set the standard for future generations: Jimmie Rodgers’s first Blue Yodel, which became known as “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for … Continue reading
When You Say Nothing At All
Happy Valentine’s Day
Alison and Robert Sand the Grammys
Last year I was Grumpy about the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. I can’t be grumpy this year. My gal Alison Krauss cleaned up. Producer T-Bone Burnett worked his magic on her duet album with Robert Plant, Raising Sand [ Rounder]. … Continue reading
The Day The Music Died
Today is the 50th anniversary of The Day The Music Died. On 3 February 1959, in a field outside Clear Lake, Iowa, a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed and killed everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, history, IA, Last.fm, MN, Music, Rock & Roll, Roots
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At the Root of the Music
Uncle Tupelo is the fulcrum of my ROOTS music universe. All things good, bad and ugly; happy, melancholy and sad, flow thru the music and the people and the places of the boys from Southern Illinois. The melancholy is mine–youth … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, country music, Last.fm, Music, Roots
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