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Showing posts with label country music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label country music. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Glen Campbell 1936-2017

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I was sad to hear of Glen Campbell's passing earlier today, as I've always felt a weird kinship to the man. When I was but a wee...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Lost Hits of the New Wave #6

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"Clones (We're All)" by Alice Cooper. This is notoriously the New Wave song from Alice Cooper, trashed at the time as cash...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Jimmy Dean Passes Away

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Most folks knew him as the visible head of his sausage company, but generations previous knew him for his music and his television series. ...
Monday, March 01, 2010

Golden Rain?

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"Golden Rain" really isn't a very appetizing title for a song, but that's how "Il Pleaut de Lo'r" translate...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Avenged Sevenfold Drummer Dead

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Praised by some as one of the world's best drummers, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan of Avenged Sevenfold was found dead in his home ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Boys Are Back

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The Boys are back. I’m not talking Backstreet, Beach or even High School Musical , I’m talking ‘bout Oak Ridge, baby. The Oak Ridge Boys a...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Neal Hefti RIP

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Composer Neal Hefti has passed away. Among his work were the scores to two of my faves, How to Murder Your Wife and Boeing Boeing , as we...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Porter Wagoner 1927-2007

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The man was a hardcore country & western singer, and without him neither country music nor rock and roll would be what it is today. I...