If the Vacation movie series’ “Cousin Eddie” (Randy Quaid) has a favorite holiday song, it’s probably Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas From the Family.” The tongue-in-cheek tune, from the Texas country icon’s 1994 Gringo Honeymoon album, sets the drunken scene for a dysfunctional brood’s holiday gathering, complete with bean dip,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Angaleena […]
iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending December 22, 2014: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store
It was 45 years ago today that Merle Haggard recorded his classic pro-military (and anti-protestors) tune, “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” The song was to serve as the follow-up single to the similarly patriotic “Okie From Muskogee,” which had, just a few months earlier, catapulted the singer to country mega-stardom. The…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Merle […]
Rodney Atkins will release his first greatest hits collection in February. The album will include his six chart-toppers: “If You’re Going Thru Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows),” “Watching You,” “These Are My People,” “Cleaning This Gun (Come On in Boy),” “It’s America” and “Take a Back Road.” The other…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rodney Atkins […]
Named Bajo Sexto, the project is a joint venture between Waxman, Vector Management founder Ken Levitan and the Hall. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Adele's Jonathan Waxman Is Opening a Taqueria in The Country Music Hall of Fame
Country Music Hall of Fame vocalist Ray Price died a year ago this month, but before he succumbed to pancreatic cancer, he made a series of final trips to the studio. The result was his last batch of recordings, the emotionally vulnerable Beauty Is…The Final Sessions. The album, released this past…… Source: RollingStone Link: Ray Price's […]
Some of you agreed with Rolling Stone Country’s picks for the top songs of 2014, while others’ colorful language in response to our choices could land them on Santa’s naughty list. So, we conducted a social media poll to get your votes on the best country songs of the year,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
The first piece of new, original music from the recently reunited Replacements may not be what fans expected from the snotty kings of college rock, but “Poke Me In My Cage” is a holiday gift nonetheless: A 24-minute improvised jazz track, which the band uploaded to Soundcloud last week with little fanfare. Written by Paul Westerberg…… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
In December 2012, when Jimmy Fallon was still host of Late Night, Mariah Carey stopped by to perform her holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” with the Roots playing classroom instruments. Fallon has kept that tradition alive even as he moved on to The Tonight Show by inviting…… Source: RollingStone Link: One Direction, […]
The traditional idea of the major label rap album seems on the decline — though that didn’t stop Nicki Minaj, Future and YG from making great ones — as fans of hip-hop, a genre in its 41st year, are more and more driven by the Internet, bringing worldwide attention to local talent from Washington, D.C. (Shy Glizzy) to…… Source: RollingStone Link: 40 Best […]