A lot of singers are more than happy to release an album every two years, maybe once a year if they’re especially fastidious. But for Gretchen Wilson, that’s not good enough. This year alone, she’s releasing three (her latest, Right on Time, dropped April 2) while embarking on a tour. This, mind you, is all […]
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Tom Skinner — Tom Skinner
With this in mind, what makes Tom Skinner’s self-titled album work so beautifully is that it’s chock-full of sincerity — and real sincerity, not manufactured. Sounding like the perfect soundtrack to driving Oklahoma back roads in the summer — windows down, radio way too loud — Skinner evokes shades of alt-roots artists Tom Russell, Greg […]
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Better off Red
Nathan Cross of Grady’s 66 Pub Photo: Mark Hancock However, as many artists are wont to find out, the music remained in his blood. And that’s how Grady’s 66 Pub, 444 W. Main in Yukon, was started. “I wanted to still be involved in the music business, wanted to still be surrounded by the music […]
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Lady ‘Gag’-a
Credit: Brad Gregg Now she can add political activist. The Checotah native and Nashville, Tenn., resident has recently taken a stand against Tennessee lawmakers attempting to pass what critics derisively call the “Ag- Gag” bill. The Livestock Cruelty Prevention Act would require videos or photos documenting livestock animal cruelty to be given to authorities within […]
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On the Fritz
Songwriters draw their inspiration from a variety of things. Current events and relationships are usually high on the list, but things that make us laugh don’t typically scream, “Write a song about me.” Yet they do to Jonny Fritz, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter formerly known as Jonny Corndawg. He plays Thursday at Opolis. Fritz’s eccentric brand […]
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Friends in litigious places
Credit: Brad Gregg As first reported by TMZ.com, the lawsuit asserts that Brooks is “willing to lie to avoid paying his debts, and he revels in using his vast wealth and influence to crush anyone who Brooks believes is standing in the way of him getting what he wants.” As a result of his alleged […]
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KKNG of kings
Larru Sousa at KKNG radio Credit: Mark Hancock It’s not to be confused with the KKNG that became the current KJKE radio, 93.3. KJKE is the station with the big stick (industry jargon for a powerful signal); KKNG is so low-power, in fact, it has trouble covering the entire metro. Sousa, who spent 38 years […]
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No Justice — America’s Son
For the record, the film is a back woods action-revenge thriller starring Kevin Sorbo. That perfectly suits the bluesy-rootsy tune with lines like, “Who you gonna call when it gets rough” and “Where you gonna run when the river runs dry,” sung with a passion that would go great with a couple of roundhouse kicks. […]
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Nash bridges
“It was organized in the ’50s because there was no one looking out for [songwriters] on the congressional level, and yet, how much we were paid was determined by Congress,” Stover said. “You see the need for the lobbying up there at the national level.” The NSAI is involved with songwriters at both the legal […]
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Mama’s getting punchy
But wait, don’t award her an MTV Moonman just yet, folks; the character Lambert was playing might not have been much of a stretch, after all. According to a police report filed by Melanie Peden — a Tishomingo antique shop owner and neighbor to Lambert’s Pink Pistol boutique — the country-pop tart went postal after accusing […]