From the false start on the opening rocker "Real Love" to the fade-out of AC/DC cover "It's a Long Way to the Top," anyone familiar with Lucinda Williams may notice...
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Thanks to her Southern twang and onstage cowboy hat, Lucinda Williams has long been recognized as a country artist. But her most recent Grammy Award win, in 2001, was for...
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Lucinda Williams will release a digital-only EP of protest songs on October 28, two weeks after the veteran roots-rocker's ninth studio record, "Little Honey," ...
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It was craft versus
showbiz at the inaugural Stagecoach festival, held Saturday and
Sunday in Indio, Calif., the site of the Coachella rock
extravaganza the weekend...
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The blues stage will be back when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens Friday, and so will such performers as blues singer Alton "Big Al" Carson and...
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Billboard presents a look at the
music you'll be hearing a lot about in the first quarter:
JOHN MELLENCAMP
"Freedom's Road" (Universal, January 23)
Mellencamp's first...
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Bono, Sting, Lou Reed and
Nick Cave are just a handful of the artists who have lent their
voices to "Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs &
Chanteys," due out August...
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As Lost Highway Records marks its
fifth anniversary this year, it is also celebrating a
remarkable Grammy Awards achievement. Since its inception, the
label has released 50...
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"Take me down to your
dance floor . . ."
No one was dancing as Gram Parsons' voice wafted over the
sound system at Hollywood's Harmony Gallery on Friday evening,
but the...
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There have been times
when Shilah Morrow of Sin City Marketing has been maddened by
her nickname "Mama Shi," for actual mothers have to change
diapers and do other messy...
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Acclaimed singer/songwriter
Alejandro Escovedo, whose career has been sidelined since 2003
by a battle with hepatitis C, is working on an album that is
being produced by...
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When you think of soul music, Peter Gallagher of The O.C.
is not exactly the first image that comes to mind.
But
Epic Records is betting on the actor's Otis...
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"If you nail yourself
down to one thing, you're gonna have a hurt foot," Waylon Payne
says.
Country singer-songwriter Payne has been a hard man to nail
down lately. The...
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Bettye LaVette landed a top 10
R&B hit with her very first single. In 1962, when she was only
16, her "My Man, He's a Loving Man" peaked at No. 7.
The following 43 years,...
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Most blessings in Charlie Sexton's life have come with a curse.
At 17, the lanky Texan was heralded as a blues guitar prodigy. Instead, he became a rock 'n' roll pretty...
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Alanis Morissette oughta know that her decision to hawk her latest
CD through Starbucks was perceived as a slap in the face to traditional
music retailers.
In response,...
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Southern rock died as a distinct genre in the 1980s, but the raw, scruffy spirit of the music made by groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers is alive and well in...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Modern country duo Montgomery Gentry
and stalwart Southern rock act Lynyrd Skynyrd will meet on an
upcoming episode of "CMT Crossroads."
The performance will be taped at...
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DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD, DVD Plus
and the imminent DualDisc are among the cutting-edge music
delivery formats. But just as these carriers deliver
high-resolution audio, so...
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The Roots, the Dead's Mickey Hart ,
the Coup, Michelle Shocked and Third Eye Blind are the first
acts to sign on for the second We the Planet Music and...
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Some people swap stories around the
campfire; others, like Tony Joe White and Shelby Lynne, write
songs.
They wrote a handful together a few years ago, when Lynne,
who...
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Lava Records has signed Vanessa
Williams to a two-album deal.
Both releases will be theme records. A Christmas album,
"Silver & Gold," is due Oct. 12, and it will be...
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For Keith Richards , it was "another
goodbye to another good friend" as the Rolling Stones guitarist
headlined a pair of Los Angeles-area tribute concerts over the
weekend...
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Keith Richards will pay tribute to
his late pal, country rock pioneer Gram Parsons , by performing
at two all-star charity concerts in California next month,
organizers...
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Country music artists are hardly united in their support of the war in Iraq — but you'd never know it from listening to the radio.
While Toby Keith , Darryl Worley ...
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Willie
Nelson can't wait to get back on the road again.
The
hirsute outlaw country legend has nixed a series of concerts over the
next two months so he can undergo...
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Bob Dylan , Keith Richards , Jerry
Lee Lewis , Kid Rock and Merle Haggard were among the "outlaws
and angels" that Willie Nelson brought out on Wednesday for his
third...
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In her new role as VP of artists
and repertoires at Lost Highway Records, Kim Buie says she is
looking to sign "rebels, mavericks and outsiders."
But that doesn't mean...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Kim Richey, and Whiskeytown's Ryan Adams have signed to Lost Highway, a new, Nashville-based alt-country imprint launched by Mercury...
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In her keynote speech, which she sprinkled with her heart-wrenching acoustic songs, recent Grammy winner Lucinda Williams advised attendees this morning at the annual South...
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Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Buddy & Julie Miller will be among the country-rock stars performing at a Washington, D.C. concert to...
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Critical favorite Lucinda Williams, who has had problems getting several records out in the past, will ironically soon have two on the market.
Williams has signed a...
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