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    May 3, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Flipping digitally through John Peel's record collection

    Pop & Hiss
    Legendary British DJ John Peel's record collection is going up online. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts looks at the first batch of vinyl....
    2. Feb 22, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Musical moments with U.S. presidents

    Pop & Hiss
    President Obama sang the blues on Tuesday with B.B. King, Mick Jagger and Buddy Guy for a White House blues concert. The President is one of many chief executives who have shown their musical talents in office....
    3. Aug 4, 2010 |Story| AP Member Choice Complete

  3. Bobby Hebb dies at 72; writer and singer of '66 hit 'Sunny'

    Bobby Hebb, a musician and songwriter whose 1966 hit "Sunny" about a smiling girl became a pop music classic, died Tuesday of lung cancer at a Nashville hospital. He was 72.
    Associated Press
    Bobby Hebb, a musician and songwriter whose 1966 hit "Sunny" about a smiling girl became a pop music classic, died Tuesday of lung cancer at a Nashville hospital. He was 72. "Sunny" was recorded by many other singers, including Marvin Gaye, Wilson...

    Tags: Jose Feliciano, Frank Sinatra, Music Industry, Marvin Gaye, Health

    4. Mar 10, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Hank Locklin, 91, dies; country singer helped usher in 'the Nashville Sound'

    Times Wire Reports
    Country singer Hank Locklin, whose smooth tenor voice on hits including "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" marked a career that spanned half a century, has died. He was 91. Locklin died Sunday at his home in Brewton, Ala.,...

    Tags: Country and Western (genre), Dolly Parton, Radio Industry, Dwight Yoakam, Death

    5. May 20, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Country crooners vs. honky-tonk: Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, George Jones

    If <a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-arnold9-2008may09%2C0%2C2211096.story">Eddy Arnold</a> really is the most successful country music hit maker of all time, why haven't we heard more about him in recent years?
    Special to The Times
    If Eddy Arnold really is the most successful country music hit maker of all time, why haven't we heard more about him in recent years? I've heard that question a lot in the days since the Tennessee native, who helped broaden the appeal of country music...

    Tags: Death, Folklore and Mythology, Conway Twitty, George Strait, Merle Haggard

    6. Feb 4, 2012 | Allentown Morning Call

  6. Up close with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen at Godfrey Daniels

    Lehigh Valley Music
    On Friday night a full house at Bethlehem's Godfrey Daniels revisited the music of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. An animated, personaable John McEuen played their songs and told stories about them, along with performing a wealth of other Americana tunes and...
    7. Feb 2, 2012 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
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    8. Mar 4, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  8. My life in (folk) music

    Change of Subject
    Saturday at 7 p.m. I will host "Sweet Folk Chicago" on WFMT-FM 98.7. The program invites guest hosts to play and talk about a selection of songs that are meaningful to them. I chose about a dozen. UPDATE:Here's my playlist......
    9. Nov 11, 2005 |Story| New York City

  9. DeFord Bailey's time has (finally) come

    STAFF WRITER
    Were he alive to see it, DeFord Bailey might be astonished to be inducted Tuesday into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he became one of country's earliest stars in the late 1920s and '30s, he spent much of his time facing obstacles: He stood not...

    Tags: Polio, Lost (tv program), Middle Tennessee State University , Documentary (genre), Justice and Rights

    10. Feb 28, 2005 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  10. Country bumpkin no more

    &quot;All aboarrrrd! This train's a'movin'!" That's what you'll hear if you visit Knoxville, and take a scenic journey from Volunteer Landing to the forks of the Tennessee River aboard the Three Rivers Rambler, a historic steam engine, passenger and open-air rail car.
    "All aboarrrrd! This train's a'movin'!" That's what you'll hear if you visit Knoxville, and take a scenic journey from Volunteer Landing to the forks of the Tennessee River aboard the Three Rivers Rambler, a historic steam engine, passenger and open-air...

    Tags: Culture, Education, Arts, Natural Resources, Trips and Vacations

    11. Oct 9, 2003 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Other actors in office

    Sun Staff
    Long before Governor Terminator, before Congressman Gopher and Congressman Cooter, even before Governor Gipper, there was Governor Pappy. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, host of a popular daily music program on Texas radio, swept into the Texas governor's...

    Tags: Local Elections, U.S. Senate, Marlene Dietrich, Grandy, Movies

    12. Mar 24, 2004 |Story| Metromix

  12. Watsons music supported by love

    "I can't play the part of a celebrity," says Doc Watson. "I'm not one." He is, however, part of the American roots music Mount Rushmore, a flat-picking guitar legend and folk performer. At 81, Watson is still going strong, and comes to the Old Town...

    Tags: Death, Old Town School of Folk Music, Family, Grammy Awards

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