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During the 1930s and 1940s Cowboy songs, or “Western music”, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Some of the popular singing cowboys from the era were, Gene Autry, the Sons of the Pioneers, and Roy Rogers. (Visit former keyboardist for the Roy Rogers Jr. band.)
Another “country” musician […]

 
Grammy-winning California-based country singer DWIGHT YOAKAM has met the turn of the century head-on with an unprecedented burst of creativity. In the past year, DWIGHT has undertaken a kaleidoscopic range of concurrent projects–recording and touring in support of a critically acclaimed solo CD set, dwightyoakamacoustic.net, re-visiting the best material from DWIGHT’s remarkable career; scripting and […]

Clarence Eugene (”Hank”) Snow was born in the sleepy fishing village of Brooklyn, Queens County, on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore, on May 9th 1914. His parents divorced when he was eight years old and he was forced to stay with his grandparents. He was not allowed to visit his mother, so he regularly […]

 
Freddy Fender is the greatest and most significant singer, writer and musician in Mexican American musical history. After nearly five decades of giving his music to the world, millions of Tejano music fans are still happy to know he continues to record, appear on television, and be written about in magazines in at least five […]

 
George Glenn Jones is one of the last of his breed: pure country singers. He is a link to a bygone age, a time when the likes of Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams were kings of the jukebox, when family values and the neighborhood church were important along with the honky-tonk down the […]