FEATURED ARTIST – GENE WATSON “I have a lot of goals in front of me,” Gene Watson says. “I’ve got a whole lot more scheduled in my mind than I can see over the top of.” At age 70, this Texan is not slowing down. “I’m working more now than I was twenty years ago,” […]
NEWS The two-year Cowboy Rides Away Tour concluded Saturday night, June 7, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas–home of the Dallas Cowboys. George Strait drew 104,793 fans, the largest crowd for an indoor concert in North American history. He broke the record set by The Rolling Stones at the Louisiana Superdome in 1981. Asleep at […]
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NEWS Willie Nelson has donated major portions of his collection of correspondence, manuscripts, records and awards to The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. The Willie Nelson Collection, soon to be the focus of an exhibit on the UT Austin campus, will offer […]
NEWS A crowd of 300 gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery in Nashville to remember George Jones on the first anniversary of his death. Nancy Jones, who organized the event, stood in front of the “He Stopped Loving Her Today” headstone to talk to her husband’s fans. She led the planting of two dogwood trees. Keith Bilbrey […]
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FEATURED ARTIST At a Texas Country Music Hall of Fame concert last August, Tommy Overstreet announced, “My career started 62 years ago in Houston, Texas, and it ends here tonight in Carthage, Texas.” Although there would be no more touring, he is currently working on two new albums, one of which is totally acoustic. He […]
NEWS Courtney Cash, a granddaughter of Tommy Cash, was stabbed to death and stuffed inside a large wooden box in her home near Nashville a week ago. Her boyfriend, who received multiple stab wounds, managed to take the couple’s 20-month-old daughter and drive himself to a hospital. He provided the information that led authorities to […]
FEATURED ARTIST Johnny Seay hit the Billboard charts with “Frankie’s Man Johnny” in 1959 as a Louisiana Hayride regular. He moved to Nashville, recorded for Capitol Records, and toured under the management of Hubert Long for the next decade. In 1967, he costarred with Tex Ritter, Al Hurt, and Faron Young in Leroy Van Dyke’s […]