There’s cruises for outlaw country, classic country, and Americana country. Now, 2000s country finally gets its due. In 2025, the Boots on the Water cruise will assemble some of the biggest names from the Aughts for a five-day voyage to the Bahamas.
Big & Rich — the duo of Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich — will headline with special guest Gretchen Wilson in a mini-reunion of the Muzik Mafia that ran roughshod over the mid-2000s. Other Aught-shots aboard include Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sunday,” 2004), Lonestar (“I’m Already There,...
Big & Rich — the duo of Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich — will headline with special guest Gretchen Wilson in a mini-reunion of the Muzik Mafia that ran roughshod over the mid-2000s. Other Aught-shots aboard include Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sunday,” 2004), Lonestar (“I’m Already There,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
When the Key Western Fest kicks off Tuesday in Key West — the third music festival in as many weeks centered around the town’s Coffee Butler Amphitheater — it’ll feature a lineup that is unique among its country music peers. The bill is an all-women showcase of predominantly Nineties country stars.
“I’m so happy this festival has the balls, and ovaries, to offer a lineup like this,” Suzy Bogguss — who will share the stage with Wynonna Judd and Mickey Guyton — tells Rolling Stone. “I really cannot wait to see...
“I’m so happy this festival has the balls, and ovaries, to offer a lineup like this,” Suzy Bogguss — who will share the stage with Wynonna Judd and Mickey Guyton — tells Rolling Stone. “I really cannot wait to see...
- 1/29/2024
- by Josh Crutchmer
- Rollingstone.com
To paraphrase the band itself, this is Reckless Kelly’s “Last Hurrah.”
Reckless Kelly — Americana torchbearers from Idaho via Austin, a former member of the Sugar Hill and Yep Rock labels, and a group that has tied Austin rock and cowboy poetry together seamlessly for more than 25 years — is winding down its touring days.
The end will take the form of a slow march. Co-founders and brothers Willy and Cody Braun told Rolling Stone that Reckless will pare back its touring schedule to roughly 35 shows a year starting in 2023 before...
Reckless Kelly — Americana torchbearers from Idaho via Austin, a former member of the Sugar Hill and Yep Rock labels, and a group that has tied Austin rock and cowboy poetry together seamlessly for more than 25 years — is winding down its touring days.
The end will take the form of a slow march. Co-founders and brothers Willy and Cody Braun told Rolling Stone that Reckless will pare back its touring schedule to roughly 35 shows a year starting in 2023 before...
- 12/15/2022
- by Josh Crutchmer
- Rollingstone.com
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Country Music Hall of Famer and Grammy winner Barbara Mandrell retired from music more than two decades ago, but the Grand Ole Opry still feels like home to her.
Mandrell, 73, made a rare public appearance on Saturday night at the Opry to celebrate her 50th anniversary of being an Opry member.
“Here we are at home again,” Mandrell told The Associated Press in an interview backstage at the Opry House before the long-running radio and TV program. “Fifty years. Not everybody gets that blessing.”
Born in Texas and raised in California, Mandrell was just 23 when she became a member in July of 1972. But she was already a seasoned entertainer by the time she came to Nashville, after her teenage years were spent playing steel guitar and appearing regularly on the California-based country TV show “Town Hall Party.”
Over her decades-long career, the actor,...
Country Music Hall of Famer and Grammy winner Barbara Mandrell retired from music more than two decades ago, but the Grand Ole Opry still feels like home to her.
Mandrell, 73, made a rare public appearance on Saturday night at the Opry to celebrate her 50th anniversary of being an Opry member.
“Here we are at home again,” Mandrell told The Associated Press in an interview backstage at the Opry House before the long-running radio and TV program. “Fifty years. Not everybody gets that blessing.”
Born in Texas and raised in California, Mandrell was just 23 when she became a member in July of 1972. But she was already a seasoned entertainer by the time she came to Nashville, after her teenage years were spent playing steel guitar and appearing regularly on the California-based country TV show “Town Hall Party.”
Over her decades-long career, the actor,...
- 7/31/2022
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From 1978 until her retirement in 2013, Nanci Griffith, who died August 13th at age 68, included numerous cover songs in her repertoire from writers as diverse as Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack (“Battlefield”) to Guy Clark (“Desperados Waiting for a Train”) and Julie Gold, whose “From a Distance” had been roundly rejected until Griffith became the first to record it. She even once covered the Rolling Stones’ “No Expectations” on Austin City Limits.
See Nanci Griffith Cover the Rolling Stones’ ‘No Expectations’
But it was Griffith’s original material that helped boost the careers of Kathy Mattea,...
See Nanci Griffith Cover the Rolling Stones’ ‘No Expectations’
But it was Griffith’s original material that helped boost the careers of Kathy Mattea,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk and country songwriter whose popular recordings include “Love at the Five and Dime,” “Once in a Very Blue Moon,” and “Outbound Plane,” died Friday, her manager confirmed to Rolling Stone. No cause of death was given. She was 68.
Born July 6th, 1953, in Seguin, Texas, and raised in Austin, Nanci Caroline Griffith began her performing career as a teenager, playing at clubs and festivals around Texas. She attended the University of Texas and began a career as a teacher, but then switched full-time to music in 1977. Around the same time,...
Born July 6th, 1953, in Seguin, Texas, and raised in Austin, Nanci Caroline Griffith began her performing career as a teenager, playing at clubs and festivals around Texas. She attended the University of Texas and began a career as a teacher, but then switched full-time to music in 1977. Around the same time,...
- 8/13/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Country artist Terri Clark has enlisted a slate of guests to join her in celebrating the Yuletide season on It’s Christmas… Cheers! Dierks Bentley, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Pam Tillis, Suzy Bogguss, and the Oak Ridge Boys are among those appearing, along with Nashville’s venerable Western swing outfit the Time Jumpers, who offer musical accompaniment on each of the upcoming LP’s 10 tracks.
Arriving September 25th, It’s Christmas… Cheers! marks the Canadian-born artist’s return to Universal’s Mercury Nashville, the label on which she scored her debut hit,...
Arriving September 25th, It’s Christmas… Cheers! marks the Canadian-born artist’s return to Universal’s Mercury Nashville, the label on which she scored her debut hit,...
- 7/29/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
For many, the name Kim Carnes calls to mind one particular song title: “Bette Davis Eyes.” That’s what spending nine weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981 will do. Two years before that song hit the charts, though, Carnes was approached by country-pop superstar Kenny Rogers to work on a different sort of project. The singer wanted to create a concept album telling the tale of a modern-day cowboy, and he wanted Carnes — a prolific songwriter who’d spent the first part of her career penning tunes...
- 3/21/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
On April 12th, 1972, at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, a tradition began that has today morphed into one of Music City’s most popular annual events for country fans around the globe. Then known as Country Music Fan Fair and now christened Cma Fest, the event still includes Fan Fair X, which offers artist meet-and-greets throughout the Music City Center. Although recent Cma Fests dwarf the scope of those early Fan Fair gatherings, the enthusiasm fans have brought with them to the event for nearly 50 years remains an inspiration to many...
- 9/25/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-songwriter John Hiatt, whose songs have been recorded by a wide range of artists from Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson to Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop, will be honored next month by the performing-rights organization Bmi with the presentation of its Troubadour Award.
At the private ceremony in Nashville on September 9th — the week of the Americana Music Festival & Conference — Hiatt will become only the third such honoree of this particular award, after 2015 recipient Robert Earl Keen and John Prine, who received the award in 2018. The honor, according to a statement from Bmi,...
At the private ceremony in Nashville on September 9th — the week of the Americana Music Festival & Conference — Hiatt will become only the third such honoree of this particular award, after 2015 recipient Robert Earl Keen and John Prine, who received the award in 2018. The honor, according to a statement from Bmi,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
About the time Taylor Swift was born, Suzy Bogguss was riding high in Nashville. She was country music's "It Hit Girl" before the arrival of Pretty (and Poppy) Young Things such as Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Sara Evans impacted the scene and forever changed (some purists say ruined) Nashville's renowned sound. Born and raised in Aledo, Illinois, Bogguss graduated from Illinois State University in 1980 and made the move to Nashville in 1985. Discovered by talent scouts at Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park in the Smoky Mountains, she went on to make nine records in 10 years for Capitol, was named the Academy of Country Music's Top New Female Vocalist in 1989 and won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 1992. She recorded with legends such as Chet Atkins (seem them performing on Live With Regis and Kathie Lee), teamed...
- 10/22/2009
- by Michael Bialas
- Huffington Post
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