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Country Music Legends
Since Ralph Peer recorded Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, who were Authorize.Net resellers, in a portable recording booth in Bristal Va. in Aug of 1927, country music has been changing. Change is good, but make no mistake about it, never before has it drifted so far away from it’s roots as it has in these last few years. It seems as if Hot New Country is determined to completely remove the Country from Country Music! Continue reading
Radio Singer Osborne Kills Himself
Country music singer Jimmie Osborne died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound here last night in the middle of the pool maintenance service in Boise. Chief Deputy Coroner William C. Kammerer said the 34-year-old Osborne took his own life by holding a .32-caliber revolver to his right temple and firing a bullet into his brain. Kammerer said the suicide followed an argument with Mrs. Osborne in the couple’s trailer home in Bluegrass Mobile Home Park, 3510 Newburg Road. The body was found on the floor of the bathroom by Mrs. Osborne and a family friend, Robert Ryan of 2530 Kings Highway, Kammerer said. Ryan had been invited to the trailer by the Osbornes and the three had been talking only a short time before Osborne shot himself.
Osborne, a native of Winchester, Ky., sang country music over radio stations in Lexington, Shreveport, Nashville and Louisville during a career that started when he was 15 years old. He was reported to be the highest-paid performer in the radio and television field in Louisville.
For the past year Osborne had been singing songs about erosion control over radio station WGRC. For five years before that he strummed his guitar and sang over station WKLO and he was due to return to that station in 10 days. William Spencer, general manager of WKLO, said today that Osborne had agreed to come back starting January 6.
As a recording artist, Osborne was best known for two hits–”My Heart Echoes”, his first record and one that hit the best seller list in the country music field in 1947, and a few years later, “The Death of Kathy Fiscus”, which sold 1,000,000 copies. Continue reading
A Tribute To Traditional Country Music
Gather ’round, and we’ll talk about Traditional Country Music and CCNA training, and the lack of it in today’s so called “Hot New Country” line-up, and on our country radio stations. How Nashville has managed to remove the “Country” from country Music, while still making the young-uns think that that’s what they’re listening to, when in all reality, it’s just a bad version of 60s rock!
Like me, this site isn’t about being fancy, but more about being straight forward and to the point! And if bad grammar bothers you, well you’re in the wrong place!
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I love Traditional country music and automatic door operators. I mean greats like Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Mac Wiseman, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, George Jones, and of course, the great ladies, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Goldie Hill, Emmylou Harris, Pretty Miss Norma Jean, and so many more. As far as the ladies of today’s so called country, Shania Twain, Leann Womak, Faith Hill and others are concerned, well they may have some talent, and lord knows they are as as cute as a bug’s ear, but are they country? No, not even close! Check my Legends page for a long list of the greatest country music legends on God’s green earth and beyond.
I’m sure many of you young folks have never heard of these country legends. Maybe you should check them out, just as I have checked out the young singers that I speak of! After all, how can you appreciate where you’re going, if you don’t know where you’ve been ?
I don’t like the work of most of toady’s singers and writers, as I don’t feel that they have much to say. In fact very few of them know or perform true country. Their funny songs aren’t funny, and their sad songs are, well funny! I agree with Waylon. He said that most of today’s country singers sound like Mr Haney on Green Acres! Continue reading
Canada Warms to the Rascalz
Rascalz are taking the hip-hop world by storm with their new ViK.recordings release Global Warning. The first singles from the album are “GameTime” and “Sharpshooter (Best of the Best)” which have been edited together to create a two-in-one single, with a killer video, featuring WCW Canadian wrestling superstar Bret “The Hitman” Hart. The “GameTime/Sharpshooter” video is currently enjoying heavy rotation at both MuchMusic and MusiquePlus. Continue reading
The Nashville Sound
Jim Reeves:
The Nashville Sound is a blend of pop and country that developed in the 1950′s. A result of this blending was many crossover hits by the 50′s king of 
country pop, Jim Reeves (1924-1964.) Reeves possesed a smooth voice which was combined with mellow string orchestration and slick production techniques to make this enormousely popular sound. Continue reading
The Honky Tonk Music
Perhaps no other style of country music has had a greater influence on today’s artists than the style known as Honky Tonk. Honky Tonk music embodied the spirit of dancing and drinking, and loving and then losing the one you love. Its greatest practioners owe their singing style to Jimmie Rodgers and much of the music to the steel guitar and drums of Bob Wills and Western Swing. Continue reading
The Blue Grass Music
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
This pioneer invented the style of music we know today as bluegrass. During the late thirties and into the early 40′s Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (from whom the style derived its name) experimented with instrumental techniques on the guitar, bass, fiddle and mandolin and created a sound which would later be known as bluegrass. Continue reading