Hank Thompson News

When Mark Holt started playing guitar and singing at age 12, he never imagined that just four years later he'd be sitting backstage with Ernest Tubb, Boxcar Willie and Hank Thompson at a traveling Grand ol' Opry show.

Country music items will be sold Thursday in New York by Christie's auction company.

Arty Hill is a Baltimore, Md., honky-tonker who has been playing regularly in Austin the past couple of years.

Professional antique appraisers will be at the Hank Thompson Trek and Treat at the Streets of Indian Lake on Oct.

There's not much you can do to deal with a difficult woman. When she's not speaking her mind, she's probably refusing to make it up.

Hank Thompson was perhaps the most popular Western swing musician of the '50s and '60s, keeping the style alive with a top-notch band, tremendous showmanship, and a versatility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into romantic ballads and hardcore honky tonk numbers.

It took Wanda Jackson a long time to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but now that she's there, the 71-year-old Queen of Rockabilly and her uninhibited voice are busier than ever.

Music City attracts all types of performers, and one of the latest additions is singer Shannon Bex.

Wanda Jackson, left, is inducted into the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 4, 2009 in Cleveland.

The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously July 21 to name a Bricktown alley after rockabillya s Wanda Jackson for her lifetime musical achievements.

During her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, Wanda Jackson introduced "Mean Mean Man" saying, "They weren't writing any rockabilly songs for us girls to sing back then, so I wrote my own!" It's clear that, at 71, Jackson is still a strong-willed musical force.