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John Denver's other great love outside of music and his passion for the environment was flying, a hobby he devoted a lot of time to. Denver died on Oct. 12, 1997, when the experimental one-man plane he was flying ran out of fuel and went down in the ocean off California. He was ...
There's a common sentiment that music is gorier and more graphic today than it used to be, and that's simply not true. In fact, some of the darkest, creepiest and all-around most disturbing country songs are the murder ballads of the 1950s and 1960s. "The Knoxville Girl," "Stagger...
There's a common sentiment that music is gorier and more graphic today than it used to be, and that's simply not true. In fact, some of the darkest, creepiest and all-around most disturbing country songs are the murder ballads of the 1950s and 1960s. "The Knoxville Girl," "Stagger...
In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through your ex's Instagram, no Facebook reminders of the happy times you shared together. But of course, there was still great country music to help...
Jim & Jesse were also known for hosting a popular radio program called theSuwannee River Jamboree.The program ran through the 1950s and 1960s, and was syndicated on radio and TV. The duo joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1964, further cementing their status as legendary musicians. ...
Autry's fame far extends country music. Nicknamed the "Singing Cowboy," he was perhaps the most popular of the bevy of Western movie stars-slash-singers in the 1930s. In the early 1950s, he hosted his own television show,The Gene Autry Show, and has Hollywood Walk of Fame stars in ...
Country Musicdocumentary. His 1973 single “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” was a story all right, a weeper penned by Rodriguez alone about disappearing into another country when the world’s got you down — the forlornness in his voice almost at odds with the lushness of Jerry Kennedy’s ...
Ferlin Husky, a pioneering country music entertainer in the 1950s and early '60s known for hits like "Wings of a Dove" and "Gone," died Thursday.
Ingrid Andress is not the first country singer to struggle with the National Anthem. She's not even the first country singer to draw criticism after performing the National Anthem during MLB's All-Star festivities. A decade ago, one of country music's biggest stars of the 21st century was ...