Laurel Cove Music Festival Offers Best of Appalachian Roots
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Over the last few years, we all haven’t been able to stop harping on all the great country music talent coming out of the greater Appalachian region, from Kentucky, to West Virginia, to the Commonwealth, to south and eastern Ohio. One festival has its finger squarely on the pulse.
Pin Up Girls & Hot Rods for Reinstate Hank
0 CommentsI’ve said it many times before, when it comes to the movements to put REAL country music back in it’s proper place in the world, we all do what we can. Some make videos. Some like me take their poison pen and try to jab it in the eye of pop country. Some just use […]
Album Info on “A Bitter Harvest”
4 CommentsWhen I first heard that Rachel Brooke and Lonesome Wyatt from Those Poor Bastards were teaming up on an album, I just about fell out of my chair. Though this pairing kind of came out of left field, it made complete and perfect sense to me, and this immediately became my most anticipated 2009 album […]
“The Voiceâ€, Vern Gosdin, Dead at 74
3 Comments(This is a guest article written by Cliff England.) Vern Gosdin, known as “The Voice” by his country peers, and heralded by Tammy Wynette as “the only man that can hold a candle to George Jones” died late April 28 in a Nashville hospital at the age of 74, due to complications from a stroke. […]
New White Family Movie – Edification or Exploitation
13 CommentsThis all really started when the new movie trailer for The Wild and Wonderful Whites documentary featuring Jesco White and other members of the family was released last week. Just the trailer itself stirred some controversy, making people wonder if this movie was going to attempt to accurately depict the White family, or just be […]
Contest Winners Announced!
3 CommentsWell it is May 1st, and this is the deadline that Outlaw Magazine set for everyone who wanted to have their Reinstate Hank videos in, so I figured that this was as good of a time as any to wrap up the contest I’ve been running. It goes without saying, if people still want to […]
Concert Review – .357 String Band
12 CommentsLet me put it to you as straight as I can people: you need the .357 String Band in your life. Life is better with the .357 String Band. The world is a better place because the .357 String Band is in it. Am I still high as a Georgia pine off of 1 1/2 […]
Wayne Hancock Jams w/ Brian Setzer (+Tony Locke)
5 CommentsOkay first the bad news. For those that did not catch wind of this yet, last week there was some drama in Wayne “The Train” Hancock’s band. Long story short, Wayne’s guitarist Izzy Zaidman assaulted his steel player, Tony Locke, and Tony Locke was hurt really bad. Izzy was kicked out of the band, Tony […]
Shooter Jennings Quitting Country Music?
24 CommentsFirst thoughts that Shooter Jennings might be calling country music quits surfaced when Shooter’s label, Universal South announced that they were releasing a Greatest Hits album, Bad Magick: The Best of Shooter Jennings & 357’s. Since it hasn’t been even five years that Shooter has been doing the country thing, this release seemed a little […]
The Wild and Wonderful Whites Documentary
4 Comments(thanks to Judd Films for the heads up on this.) From producer Johnny Knoxville (who I wrote about at length about in this article) comes a new documentary about the quintessential Outlaw family, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Championed by people like Hank Williams III, and Tom Arnold, reviled by many, loved […]
Wayne Hancock Vids, News & Interviews
2 CommentsWith his new album release, Viper of Melody, Wayne “The Train” Hancock has been all over the place like a bad rash. This is a good thing, because Viper of Melody might be Wayne’s best work to date, and with 15+ years of recording and touring, he’s due for some more exposure. There’s a great […]
Hank III East Coast Tour!! (& Europe ??)
2 CommentsFrom Hank III.com Jun 16 2009 8:00P Headliners Louisville, Kentucky Jun 17 2009 8:00P Bogart’s Cincinnati, Ohio Jun 19 2009 8:00P V Club Huntington, West Virginia Jun 20 2009 8:00P Altar Bar Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Jun 21 2009 8:00P Town Ballroom Buffalo, New York Jun 23 2009 8:00P Toad’s Place New Haven, Connecticut Jun 24 2009 […]
Unknown Hinson on Jimmy Kimmel (+ other stuff)
0 CommentsThe King of Country and Western Troubadours, part time voice actor for Cartoon Network’s Squidbillies, and full-time bad ass guitar player Unknown Hinson is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tomorrow night! (Tue 4-21-09) Unknown Hinson (or at least his other persona, Danny Baker) was in the news recently, swept up in the whole […]