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2008 CMA Awards Live Blog

November 12, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 254

2008 CMA Winners Entertainer: Kenny Chesney Male Vocalist: Brad Paisley Female Vocalist: Carrie Underwood Album: George Strait, Troubadour Vocal Duo: Sugarland New Artist: Lady Antebellum Vocal Group: Rascal Flatts Song: Jennifer Nettles, “Stay” Single: George

Concert Review: Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton

October 30, 2008 Guest Contributor 5

Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton Star of the Desert Arena Primm, NV October 14, 2008 In the better late than never category, on October 14, in between two of the craziest weeks ever, I made

Waylon Jennings & the .357’s, Waylon Forever

October 28, 2008 Dan Milliken 3

Waylon Jennings & the .357’s Waylon Forever If country music has taught us one thing over the last decade, it is to never underestimate an aging legend. With much of Nashville doing everything it can

Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition

October 24, 2008 Guest Contributor 2

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition The original version of At Folsom Prison (review) is rife with a boiling intensity and a boundless pain that few artists are able to corral as well as

Inside Johnny Cash’s America: A Conversation with Morgan Neville

October 23, 2008 Dan Milliken 7

There are artists, and then there are people who use their particular craft to speak directly to the core of the human condition, who buck what is familiar and comfortable in pursuit of what is

Classic CMA Awards Moments, #17: Kris Kristofferson, Song of the Year win (1970)

October 20, 2008 Guest Contributor 3

#17: Kris Kristofferson Song of the Year win 1970 Mumbling but magnificent in its own unique way, the acceptance speech for Song of the Year in 1970 was an inarticulate message from an exceedingly eloquent

Classic Country Singles: Johnny Cash, “A Boy Named Sue”

September 18, 2008 Guest Contributor 5

A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash 1969 Written by Shel Silverstein “A Boy Named Sue,” written by the jack-of-all-trades Shel Silverstein and immortalized by Johnny Cash, is a story song of great tension and terrific

Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison

August 31, 2008 Guest Contributor 14

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison 1968 A large part of Johnny Cash’s musical identity was established, of all places, in prison. Although the singer himself stayed on the right side of the law (for the

Kris Kristofferson

August 30, 2008 Guest Contributor 3

On his tombstone, Kris Kristofferson has requested the first three lines of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire” to be engraved: Like a bird on a wire/Like a drunk in a midnight choir/I have tried in

Say What? – Rosanne Cash and John Rich

August 18, 2008 Kevin John Coyne 35

Rosanne Cash has issued a statement regarding recent use of her father’s name for political purposes: It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death,