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Second Cup Cafe: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The four-time Grammy-award-winning Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are true pioneers of country rock.

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Related Topix: Western, Paint Your Wagon, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Country, Los Angeles Metro

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Dosey Doe Coffee Company

Unlikely as it seems, a 100-year-old Kentucky tobacco barn has become the vortex of Montgomery County's bustling country and Americana scene.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, Country

Mon Nov 02, 2009

WFAA-TV Dallas

Alan Peppard: No discs for Jerry Jeff Walker

J erry Jeff Walker had a mature music career when the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus were zygotes.

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Related Topix: Country, Jonas Brothers, Austin, TX, Luckenbach, TX

Thu Oct 29, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Songwriting culture takes over the Carver

Because Willis Alan Ramsey has released only one album in 37 years doesn't mean he's a recluse.

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Related Topix: Terri Hendrix, Country, Texas, Waylon Jennings, Music, Entertainment

Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Galveston County Daily News

Music fest draws crowds despite new charge

Several hundred area residents basked in sunlight and sound waves Saturday during the third annual Texas City Music Fest by the Bay.

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Related Topix: Galveston Metro, Texas City, TX, Country, Blues, Charles Brown, Houston Metro

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Tehachapi News

LadyBug brings sublime vocal harmony

Start: Oct 23, 2009 End: Oct 23, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Price: $8 in advance and $10 at show time.

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Related Topix: Tehachapi, CA, Willie Nelson, Country, Waylon Jennings, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Alabama Live

Tyler Reeve returns to Mobile for Friday-night show

Mobile native Tyler Reeve didn't seriously start playing music until he'd left home for college.

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Related Topix: Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL, Guy Clark, Country

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Lake Travis View

Rusty Wier succumbs to cancer

Rusty Wier was an Austin original. He blazed a path, along with a select group of musicians, forging a "new" brand of music that came to be called "Progressive Country." A It was a label that Wier detested.

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Related Topix: Rusty Wier, Country, Urban Cowboy, Drama Movies, Bonnie Raitt, Blues

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Free Republic

Musician Rusty Wier dies after battle with cancer

Hearing was Rusty Wier's last sense to go, so although he was almost unresponsive when surrounded by relatives and friends, including Jerry Jeff Walker, at his son Coby's house in Driftwood on Thursday night, Wier tried to raise up his head when the group sang "Amazing Grace." By the next morning, the Austin musician, who had a hit when Bonnie ...

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Related Topix: Rusty Wier, Country, Urban Cowboy, Drama Movies, Bonnie Raitt, Blues, Houston Metro

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Huliq.com

Famed Country Singer Rusty Wier Dies of Cancer

Country singer-songwriter Rusty Weir died today, October 9, 2009. He fought cancer for two years, and passed away at the age of 65.

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Related Topix: Rusty Wier, Country, Texas

Sat Sep 26, 2009

SFGate

Vigneron lets nature be the winemaker

While often reinterpreted as "winegrower" in America, the French have a term for someone who is intimately hands-on in both tending vines and making wine: vigneron .

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Life, Food, Cheese, Tomales, CA, Healdsburg, CA, Robbins, CA, Country

Thu Sep 17, 2009

Houston Chronicle

David Bromberg returns to his old self

David Bromberg was one of the most in-demand guitarists of the 1970s. Share Share Resources DAVID BROMBERG • With: Angel Band • When: 7 p.m. Sept.

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Related Topix: David Bromberg, Folk, Texas, Willie Nelson, Country, Doug Sahm, Bob Dylan, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Tue Sep 15, 2009

KRYS-FM Corpus Christi

Sangria Wine - Jerry Jeff Walker

Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive country scene that centered around Austin, Texas, in the 1970s and included such figures as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, the Lost Gonzo Band, Waylon Jennings,and Townes Van Zandt.

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Related Topix: Country, Austin, TX, Austin Metro, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver

Wed Aug 26, 2009

A.V. Austin

Back to School: Austin characters you'll get sick of immediately

If there's one thing Austin has in spades, it's local character, be it country-music stars like Jerry Jeff Walker , renegade filmmakers like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez, or even just noted nipple-torturer Mr.

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Related Topix: Austin, TX, Country, Richard Linklater, Kinky Friedman, Will Rogers, US Politics, US News

Sun Aug 02, 2009

National Public Radio

Guy Clark: Newport Folk Festival 2009

A singer, songwriter and guitar-builder, Guy Clark has a name that's not as well-known as some of the stars who've sung his songs.

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Related Topix: Guy Clark, Country, Newport Folk Festival, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris

Wed Jul 29, 2009

The Southside Sentinel - Urbanna, Va.

Keith to perform Saturday in Deltaville

Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park's popular music series Groovin' in the Park continues with well-known musician Steve Keith this Saturday, August 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. With many local performances at Donk's Theater and the Sandpiper Reef in Mathews, the Mooring in Kinsale, Urbanna and other localities, Keith has a loyal ...

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Kinsale, VA, Country, Willie Nelson

Fri Jul 24, 2009

Lubbock Avalanche

Reservations a must for Hot Club 33

It isn't often that musician Bob Livingston makes it back to perform a Lubbock concert, so Saturday night promises to be special.

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Related Topix: Lubbock, TX, Lubbock Metro, Texas Tech, Country, Austin, TX

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Http

Music Scene: Hayes Carll the hottest thing in music right now

To say Hayes Carll is really cooking is an understatement. Since the release of "Trouble the Mind" in early 2008, Carll has seen the album cited on numerous year-end "best of" lists.

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Related Topix: Country, Hayes Carll, Texas, Guy Clark, Entertainment

Thu May 14, 2009

National Public Radio

Steve Earle's Hero, Heckler: Townes Van Zandt

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. Ted Barron Steve Earle says his new album tries to spotlight Townes Van Zandt the songwriter - not the mythical, constantly inebriated folk hero of popular memory.

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Related Topix: Country

Mon May 11, 2009

WFAA-TV Dallas

Alan Peppard: LeAnn Rimes, Jerry Jeff Walker, Margot Winspear and more

Yes, StairMaster junkies, that was country singer LeAnn Rimes who strolled into the Equinox Fitness Club early Saturday morning.

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Related Topix: Leann Rimes, Country, Garland, TX, Dallas, TX, Dallas Metro

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