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Vince Gill is the 'Guitar Slinger' on first album in five years
Pop & HissVince Gill talks about 'Guitar Slinger,' the country singer-songwriter-guitarist's first album in five years. Vince Gill stretches out as an instrumentalist on this album.... -
Album review: Miranda Lambert's 'Four the Record'
Pop & HissCountry firebrand Miranda Lambert took a quantum leap forward, artistically and commercially, with her third album, “Revolution,” which ushered her from promising newcomer to the front lines of contemporary country music. This successor... -
It's cool to be country
Los Angeles TimesThe Coen brothers' "True Grit," which plays out over rural Arkansas and the Indian Territory of the 1870s, is the duo's highest-grossing film to date, and last week it became the second-most-nominated movie in this year's Oscar race. Earlier in January,...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Entertainment, Working Class (tv program), Nicole Kidman, CMT (tv network)
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Chasing musical legends in Joshua Tree National Park
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTypically, we go to the desert at least once a year. We love the expansive space, several of the inns and restaurants and, of course, the otherworldly foliage of Joshua Tree National Park. We also enjoy the musical legacy of Gram Parsons, the former...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, National Parks, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Charlie Louvin dies at 83; country singer
Charlie Louvin, the country singer whose scintillating harmonizing with his brother Ira created a distinctive template for duet singing that strongly influenced the Everly Brothers, the Beatles, the Byrds and successive generations of singers including...Tags: Health, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Kansas (music group), Career and Workplace
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Not quite hard times for Social Distortion and Mike Ness
During his three decades at the helm of Social Distortion, singer, guitarist and songwriter Mike Ness has repeatedly turned to the rich vein of his own hardscrabble life as a hell-raising teen and then a heroin-addicted rock musician.
But in putting...Tags: Johnny Cash, Heavy Engineering, Little League Baseball, Social Distortion (music group), Los Lobos (music group)
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Ferlin Husky dies at 85; singer helped open doors for California strain of country music
Ferlin Husky, a pioneering country music entertainer in the 1950s and early 1960s who helped open the door for performers specializing in a distinctively twangy California strain of country, died Thursday. He was 85.
Husky, who was inducted into the...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Buck Owens, Cliffie Stone
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Ralph Mooney dies at 82; influential steel guitarist played with Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard
Ralph Mooney, the influential steel guitarist whose crisp, melodically rich and rhythmically buoyant sound bolstered dozens of country music hits by artists including Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Wanda Jackson before he joined Waylon...Tags: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Elections, Jerry Lee Lewis, Metal and Mineral
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Elton John & Leon Russell: Keyboard colleagues
Few people can get away with telling an anecdote about being on safari in Africa and make it sound like a trip to the supermarket.
But for Elton John, that's precisely how and where he became inspired to call his keyboard-playing pal Leon Russell after...Tags: Billy Joel, Recording Studios, Elton John, Entertainment, Getaway Travel
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Taking a census of Grammy nominees, winners
Who gets nominated for a Grammy? Musicians, sure. But who exactly, on paper, are they?
Take Frank Sinatra. Yes, he was a singer of incredible power, and garnered deserved nods for the beauty of his tone and his mellifluous phrasing. But artistry aside,...Tags: Barbra Streisand, Macy Gray, Popular Music (genre), Bobby Darin, Culture
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Grammy Awards 2011: Lady Antebellum nears a rout with 'Need You Now'; Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' takes album of the year
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLady Antebellum's desperate late-night call for companionship, "Need You Now," was named record and song of the year among five awards the country trio collected during the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday from Staples Center in Los Angeles. But the...Tags: Barbra Streisand, The Rolling Stones (music group), Elton John, Staples Center, Popular Music (genre)
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10/10/10: Ten great songs about drinking (and five others about sobering up)
Pop & HissItâs a fool's game, trying to pick 10 songs about one of popular musicâs most reliable topics: alcohol, and the joy and pain it begets. Itâs a topic that could fill volumes -â song and the drink -â so to......
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