How to Buy Damn Right Rebel Proud on LP + Jerry Reed
How to Order Damn Right Rebel Proud on Vinyl I have had a ton of people asking me about this, so please help me spread the word. For those of you that haven’t heard, Hank III’s new album Damn Right,...
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On Outlaw Radio tonight (Tuesday), Jashie P will be featuring the greatness of the one man band. A lot of you might know about people like Hasil Adkins from Boone County, really the father of the...
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Your Opinion: “They Were Good Until They Got Sober”
On New Year's Day in 1953, country music's first superstar Hank Williams died of what could be considered an early-era overdose--heart failure due to a lethal combination of morphine and alcohol. He...
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The Undeniable Influence of Charlie Louvin
On February 22, 1956, Elvis Presley played a concert at the City Auditorium in Waycross, GA. Opening for Elvis that night were two brothers, Charlie and Ira, a gospel duo called The Louvin Brothers. In...
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Album Review – Dale Watson “The Sun Sessions”
I'm not sure many other artists, even the ones that are big Johnny Cash fans, would be up for pulling this project off with this adeptness. It would almost take a small team of musical historians,...
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Why Time Has Been Kind to Garth Brooks’ Music
"Garth Brooks did for country music what pantyhose did for finger fucking." This is a quote attributed to Waylon Jennings, and one that's hard to argue against. But over time, Garth Brooks' music has...
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Review – Justin Townes Earle “Nothing’s Gonna Change…”
For all intents and purposes, Justin Townes Earle has "made it" in as much as any musician can in the modern era of music, and this usually endows the artist with the latitude to do just about whatever...
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Axl Rose Blowup Shows Importance of Hall of Fame Purity
In the end, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame isn't illegitimate because of who has been inducted into their institution, it's illegitimate because it is an institution, formed around a genre of music...
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Album Review – Jackson Taylor & The Sinners “Bad Juju”
This fiery, unfettered, full tilt assault on country music strikes that perfect chord of being both inescapably familiar yet remarkably fresh. Johnny Cash on cocaine may be the most appropriate...
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Interview: Don Maddox of Maddox Brothers & Rose
I'm not sure if I can come up with a more touching country music story in 2012 than that of Don Maddox. Think about it, 90-year-old man whose spent the last 54 years in virtual obscurity from the music...
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Dale Watson’s Long-Awaited “Dalevis” Is Finally Here
For years fans of Dale Watson have been anticipating an album release from a Dale's alter ego called "Dalevis," a mix of Dale and Elvis. Well friends and neighbors, the wait is over. Dalevis is now...
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Don Maddox Recalls One Of George Jones’ First Big Breaks
Few, if any can give perspective on George Jones that 90-year-old Don Maddox can--the last surviving member of the pioneering and influential band The Maddox Brothers & Rose. Many artists can speak...
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We love Hank! All of them. (The OTHER Hanks of Classic Country)
Radio station 93.5 KOOK and 1230 KERV in Kerrville, TX, managed by legendary DJ Big 'G' Gordon Ames has a radio promo done by Kinky Friedman that simply says, "We play Hank. All of them." Yes, we all...
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Garth Brooks Set For Nothing Short of World Domination
In late October when the 52-year-old Garth Brooks was getting set to announce he was officially coming out of retirement, Saving Country Music spoke in-depth about how the return of Garth could have a...
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How Music Row & Acuff-Rose Killed The Everly Brothers
Unlike Elvis, The Beatles, and other such acts that withstood the test of time to become commercial success stories in multiple decades, The Everly Brothers seemed to hit a wall in the early 60′s,...
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10 Badass Billy Joe Shaver Moments
You can't go long talking about badasses in country music without bringing up the one, the only Billy Joe Shaver. Though he may have never received the recognition of Willie, Waylon, or even Coe or...
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10 Badass Wanda Jackson Moments
Up until this point Saving Country Music's "10 Badass Moments" series has only featured men. But can women be badasses as well? Well if you look at the life and times of one Wanda Jackson, the answer...
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Johnny Cash Gets Animated in Newly Uncovered Interview
Amidst the renewed attention for Johnny and his music, the PBS series Blank on Blank has brought the Man in Black back alive in an animated interview. The 6-minute conversation originally recorded in...
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Tom Petty Is Critical of “Game Show” Stars, &“Plastic Computer” Music
Tom Petty has been known to speak his mind from time to time, including in August of 2013 when he criticized modern country as "Bad rock with a fiddle." Now in a new interview with Canada's CBC news...
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George Strait, Willie Nelson & Garth Brooks Make Poll of Favorite Artists
Harris Interactive has just released a new poll that queried the American public about their favorite music artists, musicians, and bands, and some noteworthy country music names made the list. When...
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Bass Player & Writer of “Long Tall Texan” Henry Strzelecki Passes Away
Tragic news out of Nashville where where prolific and beloved bass player Henry Strzelecki has passed away after being struck by a vehicle while out for a walk Monday, December 22nd. Strzelecki...
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The Oldest Living Links to Country Music’s Golden Past
With the passing of the 94-year-old "Little" Jimmy Dickens at the beginning of 2015, it's a reminder for us to cherish the final living links to country music's most legendary past who can still tell...
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Songwriter and Musician Bobby Emmons Has Passed Away
Musician, songwriter, and member of The Memphis Boys Bobby Emmons has passed away. Known for writing such iconic songs as the #1 hits by Waylon Jennings "Luckenbach, Texas" and "Wurlitzer Prize (I...
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After 55 Years, The Louisiana Hayride Is Coming Back
The Louisiana Hayride is on its way back, and in a big way. Arguably the 2nd most influential music program in country music history, only rivaled in stature by The Grand Ole Opry, it's been an effort...
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The Banning of “Dixie,”& the Birth of “An American Trilogy”
This is not the first time hysteria has jeopardized Southern institutions. In the late 60's, the song "Dixie" was strongly-identified with slavery and other unsavory elements of the Confederate cause....
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Priscilla Presley Celebrated Elvis’s 85th with Dale Watson
Dale Watson celebrated Elvis Presley's 85th birthday in style at his brand new historic honky-tonk Harnando's Hide-A-Way in Memphis. Hernando's got a big endorsement on Wednesday when none other than...
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No, Don’t Put Dolly Parton in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Yet)
But Dolly Parton doesn't deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at least not at the moment when there are so many other women and men waiting in the wings that are much more deserving, and...
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Drake Milligan Might Finally Be Finding His Moment
Drake Milligan has got the "it" factor that so many otherwise excellent singers are missing. What is "it"? It's a combination of things that go well beyond talent: originality, intrigue, unique appeal,...
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“Always on My Mind,”“Suspicious Minds” Writer Mark James Dies
Some songwriters amass a master's catalog of commercial hits, while others go on to only be known for a few select but significantly important compositions. In many respects, both of these things are...
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