http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog Public Country Music Forums Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:28:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Country-music-talk.com Forum List: Bubba's Lounge - Good starting point for new members. Talk about an..... Country Music Lyrics - Swap lyrics to country music songs here. Need lyri..... Western Music - Traditional country western music. Talk about the ..... Country Music Concerts - Let us know what you liked and didn't like about t..... Southern ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2006/12/cmt-forums/   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 ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2008/01/singing-cowboys-western-swing-and-hillbilly-boogie/ Cirque Du Soleil has signed former Freddy Fender keyboardist Conrad Askland to open their new resident show in Macau, China. Conrad Askland played keyboards with Freddy Fender from 1996-2005. Freddy Fender passed away on October 14, 2006. Conrad Askland holds the musical distinction of having played both at the Seattle Opera ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/07/former-freddy-fender-keyboardist-signed-to-cirque-du-soleil/   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 ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/06/dwight-yoakum-biography/ Tammy Wynette May 5, 1942 - April 6, 1998 Biography The First lady of Country Music has been on a musical campaign of presidential proportions in the 1990's. Nashville superstar Tammy Wynette scored the biggest hit of her life when she teamed up with the British pop act The KLF in 1992 to create ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/06/tammy-wynette-biography/ 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 ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/05/hank-snow-biography/   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 ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/05/freddy-fender-biography/ Here is a list widely accepted as "Legends" of country music. They forged the path before a path existed. Long live country music! Anderson, Lynn Arnold, Eddy Barbara Mandrell Chris LeDoux 1948-2005 star Chris LeDoux is described by those who knew him as a talented, kind man. From all accounts the world is a sadder ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/04/list-of-country-music-legends/   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 ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/03/george-jones-biography-country-music-singer/ Freddy Fender passed away on October 14, 2006 at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas, surrounded by his family. He was one of the most significant voices in Mexican American musical history, Born Baldemar G. Huerta on June 4, 1937 in the Mexican slums of San Benito, Texas, Fender’s music ... http://www.country-music-talk.com/blog/2007/02/freddy-fender-dies/