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Tom Paxton On His 80th Birthday Celebration At The Schimmel Center, Working With Jon Vezner, And Halloween

Tom Paxton On His 80th Birthday Celebration At The Schimmel Center, Working With Jon Vezner, And Halloween

An influence on many of music’s influential musicians, the music of Tom Paxton has been performed by Harry Belafonte, John Mellencamp, Miranda Lambert, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, John Denver, and Bob Dylan, to name a few key artists. Paxton, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and folk icon, was […]

6y ago

Classic Cover Versions Of Classic Songs

Classic Cover Versions Of Classic Songs

Pull up a pew and relish this rip-roaring hit parade of classic songs revamped, reinvigorated and revolutionized by the unique talents of other artists. A classic song attains its legendary status because for two, three, four, five, six, or in some cases, ten plus minutes, it invokes a state of pure perfection which the listener […]

7y ago

Merle Haggard Dies At 79: Country Music Mourns As Tributes Pour In For The Music Legend

Merle Haggard Dies At 79: Country Music Mourns As Tributes Pour In For The Music Legend

Today, country music legend Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday, and already hundreds of tributes from both country music fans and superstars have begun pouring in, paying tribute to a man whose career spanned more than five decades. After having to cancel several concerts due to ailing health brought on by double pneumonia, […]

8y ago

Johnny Cash Has A New Species Of Tarantula Named After Him & A New Statue Outside Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash Has A New Species Of Tarantula Named After Him & A New Statue Outside Folsom Prison

It’s been a big week for the late Johnny Cash. First, in a study published this week in Zookeys, it was revealed that a new species of tarantula has actually been named for Johnny Cash. In what is being called “the most comprehensive taxonomic tarantula study ever conducted,” a group of scientists studied more than […]

8y ago

Kid Rock Entertains Court, Dismissed From Jury Duty

Kid Rock Entertains Court, Dismissed From Jury Duty

Kid Rock, going by his legal name Robert James Ritchie, reported for jury duty at Oakland County Circuit Court along with the rest of the 160 potential jurors ordered to report, according to Detroit Free Press. Kid Rock, labeled juror number 335, participated in the examination designed to determine which potential jurors could perform their […]

8y ago

CMT Johnny Cash Tribute To Be Hosted By Kid Rock

CMT Johnny Cash Tribute To Be Hosted By Kid Rock

September 12 marks 12 years since the death of country music legend, Johnny Cash. To commemorate this day, CMT is holding a celebration of Cash and his legacy that will last all week. Kid Rock will be the host of this anniversary tribute. CMT will kick off Johnny Cash Week on Tuesday, September 8, with […]

8y ago

Willie Nelson Wins Gershwin Prize, 1st Country Musician Honored With Library Of Congress Award

Willie Nelson Wins Gershwin Prize, 1st Country Musician Honored With Library Of Congress Award

Willie Nelson has been named as the next recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. A statement from the Library of Congress was released on Thursday, making Nelson the first country musician honored with the award. The prize will be presented in November during a ceremony in Washington. A series of […]

8y ago

When Senator Pat Roberts Isn’t Trying To ‘Let It Go,’ He Is Ready To ‘Walk The Line’ [Video]

When Senator Pat Roberts Isn’t Trying To ‘Let It Go,’ He Is Ready To ‘Walk The Line’ [Video]

During a stuffy Finance Committee meeting, Senator Pat Roberts unintentionally lightened the mood for all in attendance when his cell phone rang. The 78-year-old Republican Senator surprised everyone in the room when his ringtone blared out the first few lines of the Disney movie Frozen’s hit song “Let It Go.” The senator took it all […]

9y ago

WWE News: The Undertaker To Come Out To A New Entrance Theme At ‘WrestleMania 31’?

WWE News: The Undertaker To Come Out To A New Entrance Theme At ‘WrestleMania 31’?

It is well known that The Undertaker has a habit of making elaborate entrances at WrestleMania each year. It seems at WresteMania 31, that will be no different. Taker is known for the bells going off and appearing out of nowhere. The funeral-like song for him is synonymous with The Deadman. Even if you’re barely […]

9y ago

Johnny Cash, Winston Churchill and Jimi Hendrix’s Greatest Love Letters Will Melt Your Heart This Valentine’s Day

Johnny Cash, Winston Churchill and Jimi Hendrix’s Greatest Love Letters Will Melt Your Heart This Valentine’s Day

Love is such an overriding theme in art that it’s no surprise some of its most iconic figures created their best work because of it. Of course, musicians like Johnny Cash and Jimi Hendrix or famed writers Ernest Hemingway or John Keats have penned a long list of work that echoes the bliss of feeling […]

9y ago

Waylon Jennings Estate Auction Nets $37,000 For Willie Nelson’s Braids

Waylon Jennings Estate Auction Nets $37,000 For Willie Nelson’s Braids

Item up for sale at Waylon Jennings’ estate sale: a pair of Willie Nelson’s braids. News Net 5 is reporting that Jessie Coulter, fellow country singer and Waylon Jennings’ widow, had over 2,000 items from Jennings’ estate auctioned off, with the proceeds going to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Charities. One of the most intriguing items […]

9y ago

Justin Bieber Covers Johnny Cash And Tracy Chapman, Brace Yourself Nashville?

Justin Bieber Covers Johnny Cash And Tracy Chapman, Brace Yourself Nashville?

Justin Bieber recently sang covers of Johnny Cash’s classic “Ring of Fire” and Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ ’bout A Revolution.” It looks like Justin Bieber is serious about unplugging from those R&B, pop and hip-hop big beats. For a while at least. Maybe his ears need a rest? Or, maybe the Biebs has decided to investigate […]

9y ago

Courtney Cash, Great-Niece Of Johnny, Stabbed To Death In Her Home, Body Stuffed In Box

Courtney Cash, Great-Niece Of Johnny, Stabbed To Death In Her Home, Body Stuffed In Box

Courtney Cash, the 23-year old great-niece of late music legend Johnny Cash, was found stabbed to death Wednesday in her Tennessee home. Her body was stuffed into a small cedar chest and left in the living room of her house on Rice Road in Baxter, a town about 100 miles ease of Nashville. Putnam County […]

10y ago

Rosanne Cash Finds Her Southern Roots, And Sings About Them

Rosanne Cash Finds Her Southern Roots, And Sings About Them

Rosanna Cash, daughter of the legendary Johnny Cash, says that her new collection of songs was inspired by trips to the South. She added that her family history also played a part in her composing: “There’s never any highway when you’re looking for the past,” she sings in the opening minutes of her album, “The […]

10y ago

Johnny Cash: Lost Album ‘Out Among The Stars’ Should Stay Lost, Says Some Fans

Johnny Cash: Lost Album ‘Out Among The Stars’ Should Stay Lost, Says Some Fans

Johnny Cash’s lost album Out Among The Stars is already becoming popular and infamous among some Cash fans. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the lost Johnny Cash album will be released in the spring of 2014. And it’s not like these are outtakes that were dredged up from some lost files. These are real […]

10y ago

Lost Johnny Cash Album To Be Released Next Spring

Lost Johnny Cash Album To Be Released Next Spring

A lost Johnny Cash album will be released next spring, a little less than a decade after the country icon’s death. Cash’s estate will release Out Among the Stars, an album he recorded with Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s, in March. The album was never released by Columbia Records, and went missing after the […]

10y ago

Johnny Cash To Receive His Own Commemorative Stamp

Johnny Cash To Receive His Own Commemorative Stamp

Johnny Cash is set to be posthumously honoured with a stamp in the United States, produced by the United States Postal Service. Beyond The Perf.com also states that this stamp will be part of a new Music Icons stamp series, the remaining two artists will be revealed later this year. It is taken from a […]

11y ago

Johnny Cash song was Apple’s 10 billionth iTunes download

Johnny Cash song was Apple’s 10 billionth iTunes download

In a surprising lottery win of taste over suck, Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way” was the ten billionth song downloaded on iTunes. Nearly seven years after iTunes opened its virtual doors to what used to be a bunch of dirty, thieving pirates, iTunes hit the milestone. And luckily for ensuing press, it wasn’t […]

14y ago

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