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Love Your Country - country music and social virtue
I went looking for the war on MTV and couldn't find it. True, just after 9/11, MTV did join with the USO to put on a special called "For the Troops." ......(Continue Reading) Gospel greats strum the soul: compilation, Cash release give gospel genre its due as country music's muse
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and New Haven Records have compiled what they believe are the 20 best country gospel tunes. This compilation, ......(Continue Reading)The Grammy's were held February 27 and this year's winners included plenty from the folk music world: June Carter Cash—Traditional Folk Album, Female
The Grammy's were held February 27 and this year's winners included plenty from the folk music world: June Carter Cash--Traditional Folk Album, Female ......(Continue Reading)Alternative country: origins, music, world-view, fans, and taste in genre formation - Discographic Essay
It is exciting to observe genre formation as a style of music is being consolidated. Think, for example, of going back to 1916 and seeing the early developments in the music we now know as jazz, to...(Continue Reading)Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide and Directory. - Review - book review
David Goodman. Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide and Directory. Nashville: Dowling, 1999. xix + 439 pp. $22.00. Since 1995, No Depression ......(Continue Reading)
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