Waylon Jennings’ Family Plans To Release His Last Recordings; Bonnaroo Lineup Revealed; Arnold Schultz Honored
- Sarah Jarosz, Punch Brothers, Trampled By Turtles, The Avett Brothers, and several other Americana/roots acts are on this year’s Bonnaroo roster.
- The A.V. Club has an exclusive stream of “In Between Jobs” from Todd Snider’s upcoming album, Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables.
- Pierce Greenberg of Nashville’s City Paper has some more information about the Johnny Cash museum scheduled to open this summer: it’ll be a “two-floor, 18,000-square-foot museum, including a 250-seat music venue,” and the average admission price will be about $13.
- Scotty McCreery’s “The Trouble with Girls” has gone gold.
- Waylon Jennings’ family is planning to release his last recordings on an album tentatively titled Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Final Recordings; plans for a clothing line, biopic, and community-based website are also in the works.
- Here’s Kathleen Edwards’ World Café session.
- Keyboardist John Hobbs will be featured by the Country Music Hall of Fame on March 10 as part of their series “Nashville Cats: A Celebration of Music City Musicians.”
- The International Bluegrass Music Museum is teaming up with the H.L. Neblett Community Center to honor Arnold Schultz, who influenced Bill Monroe, with a program designed to teach kids how to play bluegrass instruments.
- The newest Taproot Radio Podcast features folk trio Red Molly.
- Next week Tracy Lawrence will play a show in Nashville to benefit Operation Troop Aid, an organization that sends care packages to deployed troops.
- Here’s the EPK for Shooter Jennings’ upcoming album, Family Man.
- Ariat is giving away a guitar autographed by Toby Keith.
- Writer and musician Scott Alarik talks with Minnesota Public Radio about his folk music novel, Revival.
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Arnold Schultz // Avett Brothers // Bill Monroe // John Hobbs // Johnny Cash // Kathleen Edwards // Punch Brothers // Red Molly // Sarah Jarosz // Scott Alarik // Scotty McCreery // Shooter Jennings // Toby Keith // Todd Snider // Tracy Lawrence // Trampled By Turtles // Waylon Jennings
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February 15, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Music City Roots is featuring a good number of female artists tonight! Good on ya MCR! (lol) Artists include: The Cleverlys, Samantha Crain, Dala, Loves It, Angel Snow, and LA transplant Dave Gleason. As usual it should be interesting!
Link: http://www.musiccityroots.com/
Hey Ken, did you watch the Rebecca Lynn Howard “pajama concert” last night? I was just wondering what she was wearing…(lol)
If a person wins that Ariat guitar, can they specifically request that Toby Keith not autograph it? (lol)
Gosh, it seems the marketing types are making the ghost of Waylon Jennings dance more than ever these days! Crikey!
February 15, 2012 at 7:46 pm
If a person wins that Ariat guitar, can they specifically request that Toby Keith not autograph it? (lol)
No, they’ll give you the Japanese guitar that Toby uses to perform “Made In America.”
February 15, 2012 at 7:53 pm
I’m looking forward to hearing that new Shooter Jennings record.
February 15, 2012 at 9:49 pm
It’s quite rare that acts I’ve never heard of which perform on Music City Roots impress me. Tonight was one of those rare times with the Canadian acoustic folk duo Dala, featuring two very pretty and very talented young gals (mid 20′s) named Amanda and Sheila. The gals can both sing well and play guitars and Sheila is proficient on keyboards too. They are definitely an act to catch live if they ever come your way. If they had hooked up with T. Bone Burnette, they’d be as big as the Secret Sisters these days…
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