Really enjoying these stadium shows as we cross paths with @lukecombs . Crowds are great. Staff is top notch. Nothing much to complain about. This week @CodyJinksMusic will be doing it again at Levi Stadium (Santa Clara, CA), then we will melt more stadium faces a couple weeks later at State Farm Stadium (Glendale, AZ).
I know some of you totally hate all #CountryMusic. I grew up with mostly old timey & some contemporary country music because my Mom enjoyed that & pop music. Dad was more of a blues & rock person. Mom discovered Alan Jackson in early 90s. She loved getting Dad, me & my brothers to dance & sing along to Itty Bitty, at our past annual BBQ Summer backyard bash, before we started yard games fun.
I miss dancing with my Dad - he only danced with Mom & me - his whole life.
"A pioneering record-label owner and engineer, she played guitar in a raw and unapologetically abrasive way. 'Whatever song it was,' she said, 'I always creamed it.'"
Two tracks on Beyoncé’s new album feature the voice of Linda Martell, the first commercially successful Black female country music artist, who faced exclusion in #countrymusic throughout her career
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SAMMY HAGAR Performs "I Love This Bar" In Tribute To TOBY KEITH At CMT Music Awards (Video)
Country music legend, Toby Keith, passed away on February 5 at 62 years of age following a battle with stomach cancer. Sammy Hagar paid tribute to his "dear friend" at the 2024 CMT Music Awards, on Sunday, April 7.
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ROB HALFORD On DOLLY PARTON - "I’m Meeting This Living Legend And She’s Tickling My Beard And Going, 'So You’re Going To Sing Some 'Jolene' With Me?'"
I haven't heard the album yet, probably won't ever hear it except whenever various songs trickle in through the membranes of my social media bubble. But I can tell you right now, I don't need a bearded white man in the Washington Post to tell me what I ought to think about Beyoncé’s country music album.
"And though some may forget because of her proximity to the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, Beyoncé is a Black Texan.
In that context, her critics are misunderstanding Cowboy Carter’s lush symbolism. She’s striving to communicate many things, of course, while also simply reminding all of us that Black cowboys and rodeo performers have been part of the social fabric of Texas, the South and the US for a very long time."
"We’d already picked up a good idea of what country means to her culturally, in her few public statements in advance of 'Cowboy Carter,' amplified in the one trillion thinkpieces published during the last two months, many of which really did help spur a vital conversation about Black exclusion and reclamation in one of America’s most important indigenous artforms. But now “Cowboy Carter” is in front of us as a real piece of music, not just a conversation piece. So what does what might already be the most talked-about album of the 21st century actually sound like?" Variety reports:
I need friends who don't pay their bills on home computers,
and they buy their coffee beans already ground.
Well you think it's disgraceful that they drink three dollar wine,
but a better class of loser suits me fine.
Black country music has existed for decades; according to songwriter, educator and novelist Alice Randall, its recorded origins go back to DeFord Bailey's 1927 harmonica performance of "Pan American Blues" at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Now, its time has come — thanks to Beyoncé's "Texas Hold 'Em, which debuted at the top of the country charts last month. Vox takes a look at the century of country that led to "Cowboy Carter."