Kevin John Coyne

100 Greatest Women, #82: Marie Osmond

April 12, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 8

100 Greatest Women #82 Marie Osmond “I’m a little bit country…” Those words were sung by Marie Osmond when she opened her variety show with her brother, Donny & Marie, during their four-year stint on

100 Greatest Women, #83: Bonnie Guitar

April 11, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 2

100 Greatest Women #83 Bonnie Guitar Singer. Songwriter. Session Guitarist. Record Producer. Label Owner. The list of women who have many of these titles to their credit isn’t very long. That Bonnie Guitar was all

100 Greatest Women, #84: Charly McClain

April 9, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 6

100 Greatest Women #84 Charly McClain Sometimes, you can have a pretty long run of hits while still remaining under the radar. Charly McClain was a mainstay on country radio for more than a decade,

Dixie Chicks guest on The Simpsons this Sunday

April 8, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 4

Talk about combining two of my favorite things in the world! This week, the Dixie Chicks will guest as themselves on The Simpsons. In the episode “Papa Don’t Leech”, Homer meets up with Lurleen Lumpkin,

100 Greatest Women, #85: Gretchen Wilson

April 6, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 24

100 Greatest Women #85 Gretchen Wilson Never underestimate the power of good timing. When Gretchen Wilson finally landed a recording contract after years of laboring in obscurity, country radio was more hostile to female artists

100 Greatest Women, #86: The Forester Sisters

April 5, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 3

100 Greatest Women #86 The Forester Sisters In the wake of the massive success of mother-daughter duo The Judds, female family acts experienced something of a mini-boom in the mid-to-late eighties. The most successful of

100 Greatest Women, #87: Wilma Lee Cooper

April 3, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 7

100 Greatest Women #87 Wilma Lee Cooper When the Grand Ole Opry radio show was finally televised in the eighties, country fans both old and new got a glimpse of the men and women who

Dolly Parton Night on American Idol: Rating the Performances

April 1, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 15

I’d be hard-pressed to name a better catalog of country music to choose from for American Idol than Dolly Parton’s. It’s deep with fantastic songs, and she’s recorded them in enough styles for them to

100 Greatest Women, #88: Marijohn Wilkin

March 31, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 1

100 Greatest Women #88 Marijohn Wilkin Much like Jeanne Pruett a few years later, Marijohn Wilkin became a successful female songwriter during the days when male domination was near-complete. Cindy Walker and Felice Bryant had

Say What? – Taylor Swift

March 30, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 4

Asked how she feels about her newfound stardom, and the difficulties that come along with it, Taylor Swift told Billboard : Balancing all this is not hard. I mean what do I have to complain