Riffs: An online music column Nashville City Paper
George Jones and Merle Haggard have helped shape and define the modern country sound while maintaining a strong friendship for over 40 years. They’ve won every conceivable award in the business while also riding out various changes and trends within the industry.
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Ani DiFranco finds illness-forced time off a blessing The Providence Journal
Last year, Ani DiFranco, the one-woman industry and inveterate touring and recording machine, had to hang it up for a while during a bout with tendinitis. But the time off turned out to be a blessing.
Untainted 'Love' Calendarlive.com
* Despite relapse, Keith Urban sounds in control on "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing." How dark a shadow should real life cast on the artistic life?
Leonard Slatkin WNYC New York Public Radio
Leonard Slatkin, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra, shares with host Gilbert Kaplan the music he loves and the musicians he admires with a little “Beltway” gossip along the way – Condoleezza Rice “comes backstage with her bodyguard detail and loves to talk about music.” The “creators and recreators that really drove him to music”: Fritz Reiner (“With just a simple flick of the
Stunning Line-Up for Womad New Zealand 2007 Scoop.co.nz
Multi-award winning performers, the world’s hottest tango music ensemble and virtuoso musicians are among the stellar line-up of artists heading to New Zealand for WOMAD New Zealand 2007.
Randolph looking for sound Michigan Daily
Robert Randolph and the Family Band is a group caught between desires. On one hand you have a frontman who's brought the pedal steel guitar to the masses via blistering chops (much like Jerry Douglass with the dobro). His country/blues exploits with the North Mississippi All Stars show just how twangy and raunchy Randolph can be.
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