By Bob Doerschuk
© 2012 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.
In all of American popular music, Earl Scruggs stands as one of the very few musicians who singularly changed performance practice on their instruments and in the process birthed an entirely new genre. Without him, bluegrass music as we know it would almost certainly never have happened. And countless young players might never have chosen the banjo as their vehicle for creativity. Continue reading
Promotional TV Appearances Continue In Support Of ‘An Evening With… Dolly’ Available Only At Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® Locations
Country music superstar DOLLY PARTON is celebrating the continued success of her latest project, “An Evening with… Dolly,” which is a two-disc DVD/CD set released on April 2 and available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® locations. The double-disc set includes live performances of Dolly’s biggest hits, including 9 to 5, Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, Islands in the Stream, and I Will Always Love You, among others. The package retails for $11.99 and is also available online at www.crackerbarrel.com Continue reading
Intimate Ford Theater Performances on May 9 and 10 Will Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Museum’s Annual Residency Program
Legendary entertainer Kenny Rogers will bring his signature soulful voice, his catalog of hits and the stories behind the music when he takes the Ford Theater stage as the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s 2012 Artist-in-Residence. Rogers will present two intimate evening performances on May 9 and 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Established in 2003, the museum’s residency program annually honors a musical master who can be credited with contributing a large and significant body of work to the canon Continue reading
The Saga of Cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, (Brown Books Publishing Group) by J.D. Davis of Dallas, Texas offers readers an eye-opening look inside the personal and professional lives of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley – Coming May 1, 2012
All born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, Davis draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family to recreate the irresistible and life-changing power of music that surrounded the cousins as boys, and shaped their engagingly distinct paths to fame. Continue reading
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