If you’re stuck for a wedding present, you could hardly go wrong with Cooking In The House Of Cash, a gift from one of the most dynamic marriages of our time. The June Carter and Johnny Cash household is the […]
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“I mostly feel honored to have been able to do for somebody else what music’s always done for me: held my hand when I was walking down dark alleys and couldn’t see my way out.” “People used to assume I […]
The tall, slender man on the other side of the table finishing his vegetarian lunch is dangerous and unfailingly polite. His hair is sandy and worn just long enough to reveal a slight wave. His eyes remain steady, quizzical, even […]
So here’s the setup: “Two Aggies walk into a bar…” Aggie jokes are a staple of humor in Texas, but the two A&M alumni who embraced in the lobby bar of the Four Seasons in Austin early one Thursday morning […]
“Al Green owes me a breakfast!” With that simple declaration, R&B veteran Solomon Burke launches into one of his many spirited anecdotes. It was a Saturday, in October 2002. The night before, in support of his then-new album Don’t Give […]
The sudden death of Dave Carter in July 2002 forced Tracy Grammer to choose between two options, she says: either go on the road and continue to perform, or stop singing entirely. Adding to her dilemma was the fact that […]
While Iowa City may think of William Elliott Whitmore as a local musician, the artist’s true home lies in a land divorced from place and time. Plainly speaking, Whitmore lives two hours south of town, curiously removed from the Iowa […]
Singer-songwriter Merle Kilgore, who died of congestive heart failure February 6 at age 70, was possibly the most flamboyantly successful wannabe in Nashville’s history. Tall and magnetically charismatic, Kilgore not only co-wrote “Ring Of Fire” with June Carter Cash and […]
It seems odd to say that a singer as powerful as George Scott was quiet. But Scott, who died in his sleep on March 9 at age 75 in Durham, North Carolina, was the quiet Blind Boy Of Alabama. Clarence […]
Goldie Hill long ago stepped away from the spotlight well before her husband Carl Smith, a 1950s-60s Opry star and 2003 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee. That’s one reason obits following her February 24 death of cancer drew a […]
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