Hank Williams News

Most of the albums listed here are greatest hits collections. However, if you were going to start a country album collection Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and George Strait surely would be on your list.

Today Yoakam has some new songs written but no plan yet for putting them in the possession of his listeners.

Historical marker honors recording studio with vital ties to Hank Williams and popular music's very evolution By Rick Bird Well, I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful gal But she don't care about me Lawd, I tried and I tried, to keep her satisfied But she just wouldn't stay So now that she is lea-eav-in' This is all I can say... I got the ...

In the past year I've been to only a handful of shows that really stand out, and seeing as how I've been to more concerts in my lifetime than the number of pills choked back by Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Mindy McCready combined, it's usually not the performances anymore that make a show memorable - it's the crowd.

What a week for Carrie Underwood 's scrapbook! Not only did the Oklahoma sunbeam sparkle as co-host of the CMA Awards and heat up the room with her slinky rendition of "Cowboy Casanova," she also has the week's top album -- in both Billboard 's country and all-genres charts -- and the No.

It's been a long time since country music outside of Texas was meant for dancing.

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- A love of pop and classical music is partly in our genes London, UK - If you've ever wondered why a close group of friends might like completely different types of music, blame their genes.

Award-winning acoustic guitarist and performer John Lilly specializes in Americana, country roots and traditional folk performs Saturday at Adrift as part of the joint cover Brewgrass! Lilly has been compared to Hank Williams with a sunny disposition.

"Hank Williams sang it, Number 3 drove it, Chuck Berry twanged it, Will Faulkner wrote it." So begins the title song on the album the critics are calling Tim McGraw's "rockiest album ever." The top-selling Contemporary Country artist, who replaced Garth Brooks as Country's number one top male singer, has enjoyed a string of hit albums from 1994's ...

Joe Swank likes Hank Williams Sr. He also likes Kiss. For the No Depression set, the alt-country+ group for whom Swank could be poster dude, that's not uncommon, really.

Country and Americana music fans, grab your hats! Robbie Limon, well known for his musical tributes to Hank Williams and Buddy Holly, will be headlining a benefit for the Wayside Theater on Sunday, November 15, 2009, at 7 p.m. Limon and his band will be performing a medley of Hank Williams and Buddy Holly numbers.

The event will start with a musical slice of Americana served up on banjo, fiddle and bass by a Dalton-based trio of civilians.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. If a standing ovation at the end of a play is an indication of the production's future success, then City Stage's musical "Hank Williams: Lost Highway" is in for a solid run.

It's entirely possible that local band The Revengencers has created their own, double-labeled music genre: deathwestern and country doom.

When someone named Hank Williams performs, you know you're going to get something special.

When Johnny Cash gave daughter Rosanne his list of 100 essential country songs in 1973, she kept it tucked away until she could bring something of herself to the music.

They may hail from Versailles but a love of American popular culture has propelled Phoenix to the brink of a very unfrench transatlantic breakthrough, writes Andrew Purcell Phoenix ... from the palais to Caesar's Palace.

The building that houses Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame is in the shape of a bass clef with windows that resemble piano keys.

Country comes to the city when the Elmwood Park Community Chorus next performs. Selections will run the gamut from Patsy Cline to Carrie Underwood, Hank Williams to Rascall Flatts at the free concert that begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.

When local DJ and emcee Harold Mitchell was bedridden with rheumatic fever at six years old, the radio kept him company as he listened to the legends on the Grand Ole Opry.