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<title>Alabama</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alabama are Country Rock veterans beloved by gun enthusiasts and pick-up owners across these United States. With arena-rock aesthetics and pure country songs, Alabama tapped into a mother lode of a fan-base. Their booming New Country anthems and tear-jerker ballads have crossed over into the pop world more than once, illustrating a nationwide taste for countrified boogie and bearded lead singers. After more than two decades, these guys are still producing chart-topping songs rooted as deeply in rock tradition as they are in the irony and sentimentalism of country music.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Kenny Rogers</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This pop icon has had a career that has thrived for more than 30 years. Rogers first found success in the 1960s with the New Christy Minstrels, a prefab lite folk vocal group that also boasted one-time members Roger McGuinn and John Denver. From there, Rogers started the First Edition, who had their first hit with a rocking, psychedelic, fuzz-guitar-laden version of Mickey Newbury's "Just Dropped In" only a month after signing to Reprise in 1968. After the First Edition broke up, Rogers had his first No. 1 hit with "Lady," a duet with Lionel Richie, and his second with "Islands in the Stream," which found him paired him with Dolly Parton. He became a country pop hitmaker in the 1970s with "The Gambler" and "Lucille," among others. The comforting timbre of Rogers' singing voice carries with it a hushed paternal calm that seems to naturally warm up the narratives of his songs and give them a quiet authority. In fact, his songs' story lines are so strong that two of them -- "The Gambler" and "Coward of the Country" -- were turned into made-for-TV Westerns in the mid-'80s. Rogers continued to have big records throughout that decade, as well as a platinum-selling Christmas collection. The '90s charts were not as kind, and Rogers hit a patch of bad luck. Kenny Rogers Roasters, his poultry food chain, lost some sales to Boston Market, and then he was sued for two million dollars by Kevin O'Toole after he tossed a Frisbee from a stage inside a concert hall that struck a chandelier, dropping shards of broken glass onto O'Toole. He was also the butt of a somewhat infamous Internet site: http://www.MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com. Kenny Rogers seems to have recaptured some of his luster, and is a huge international star. His Christmas albums always fare well among his fans, and he released a new album every year in the new millennium aside from 2005. He has even published two somewhat successful books: <I>Kenny Rogers' America</I> and <I>Kenny Rogers: Your Friends and Mine</I>, the latter of which is an engaging collection of never-before-published photographs from his own personal collection.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Dolly Parton</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dolly Parton is almost more famous for her impossibly curvaceous figure and huge hair than for her music -- which is somewhat of a shame. She is, after all, a distinctive and important part of country music, representing a link from the music of her Appalachian birth place to country's crossover to pop. Parton is a multifaceted artist whose first success came as a songwriter in the mid-1960s, with hit songs recorded by Bill Phillips. After she became Porter Wagoner's singing partner, her career took off and she became a solo artist by 1971. She consistently charted throughout the '70s and crossed over to the Pop charts with " Here You Come Again" in 1977. Along the way Parton became a genuine pop culture icon. Despite the glitzy, glamorous aura that surrounds her, on her recordings Parton always manages to include some element that seems like pure country. As Nashville in the '90s has continued to show its disdain for veteran performers -- and for that matter any artist who doesn't seem genetically engineered -- Parton seems to be backing away from her own image. Her latest releases have been straight bluegrass and countrified folk-pop albums that she's recorded with members of Nashville's elite community of virtuoso bluegrass pickers.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Daniels</title>
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<category>Southern Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:04:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[People have a hard time believing that the man who wrote "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" also played on such Bob Dylan albums as <i>Nashville Skyline</i>, <i>Self Portrait</i>, <i>New Morning</i>, and <i>Dylan</i>. Charlie Daniels was known as the long haired country boy with adroit musical skills that were a true gift from the gods of music. In his heyday, Daniels surrounded himself with an ever changing team of exquisitely talented musicians that contributed to his trademark sound: strict country music with an edgy injection of Southern Rock, blues shuffles and Boogie Rock overtones. Aside from making music that would soon pump from the speakers of Bo and Luke's General Lee, Daniels wrote songs that Elvis Presley covered; he played with Leonard Cohen's touring band in the 1960s, and even produced the Youngbloods' album <i>Elephant Memory</i>. Daniels managed to install a set of ethics for his fan-base-turned-subculture when he penned its anthem, "Long Haired Country Boy" with: "People say I'm no good and crazy as a loon / Cause I get stoned in the morning, get drunk in the afternoon. / Kinda like my old blue tick hound I like to lay around in the shade / I ain't got no money but I've damn sure got it made.../ I don't want much of nothing at all but I will take another toke."
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Gretchen Wilson</title>
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<category>New Country</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Wilson's story is not unlike <i>The Simpsons</i> episode where Homer befriends the aspiring country singer Lurlene Lumpkin. Like Lumpkin, Wilson grew up in a poor, rural part of the country. Born to a 16-year-old mother and to a father who left the home when she was only a toddler, Wilson grew up in Pocahontas, Ill., and moved nomadically from trailer park to trailer park. While only 14 and with just an eighth grade education, she worked as a bartender and a cook in the same tavern as her mom. Wilson began her career in her early 20s by singing in bar bands and soon she relocated to Nashville where she joined up with the Muzik Mafia songwriting club. Her debut single, "Redneck Woman," (which she co-wrote with John Rich of Big & Rich and Lonestar) set sales records on the <i>Billboard</i> charts, making her an overnight sensation. She has been credited with saving country music in a time when Nashville is leaning toward the pop production of Faith Hill and Shania Twain -- artists who sound like they're desperately trying to cross over into the Adult Contemporary market. In contrast, Wilson celebrates her redneck roots in her compositions (by name checking Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock, for example).
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Glen Campbell</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Glen Campbell is best known for his once-omnipresent hit, "Rhinestone Cowboy," but the man has had more chart-toppers than most of his country pop contemporaries. Prior to hitting big with such staples as "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Wichita Lineman," Campbell was a session player (his guitar work can be heard on songs by everyone from Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra to the Beach Boys and Merle Haggard). In 1967, Campbell first cracked the charts with the single "Gentle on My Mind." Soon after, appearances on <I>The Joey Bishop Show</I> led to a hosting gig on <I>The Summer Smothers Brothers Show</I>, which in turn led to his own series, <I>The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour</I>. In the mid-'70s, Campbell hit his stride, topping both the country and pop charts with "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Southern Nights." During the '80s, marriage troubles and substance abuse saw him in and out of the tabloids, but he bounced back in the '90s, recording a handful of gospel albums and writing his autobiography, <I>Rhinestone Cowboy</I>. In 2005, Campbell was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Three years later, at 72, he released <I>Meet Glen Campbell</I>, a covers collection.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Ronnie Milsap</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:38:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Veteran country hit maker Ronnie Milsap is inextricably linked to the pop country and country-politan hits he had in the late '70s and early '80s. However, this blind singer/piano player has had a long and varied career that has included not only stints as a session musician on recordings by artists as diverse as J.J. Cale and Elvis Presley, but also a recording career that started right after he finished high school in 1963. Although the sentiments and sounds of his biggest hits could come across as saccharine at times, Milsap is an amazingly adept triple threat performer/instrumentalist/songwriter with a wonderfully elastic voice who is at his best when performing in the country-soul vein that has remained a significant part of his deep recorded catalog.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Chris LeDoux</title>
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<category>New Traditional</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Four years after becoming the 1976 World Champion Bareback Rider, rodeo champion Chris LeDoux embarked upon a prolific country music career, first creating a buzz on the rodeo circuit with his rich narratives of bronco-busting life and heartbreaking tribulations. In the beginning, he wound up independently selling quite a lot of homespun cassette tapes of his new traditional, real-life, cowboy music from the back of his truck in various rodeo parking lots. He built a loyal following this way, but it wasn't until 10 years later that Garth Brooks dropped LeDoux's name in the hit song "Much Too Young (To Be This Damn Old)" when he started to gain recognition for his own music. After signing to Capitol Records Nashville in 1990, LeDoux gained national prominence via repeated airplay and extensive touring (he recorded and released a total of 15 albums for Capitol during his tenure on that label). A 1992 collaboration and subsequent tour with Garth Brooks brought him to the forefront of the industry, where his updated cowboy music and new country hits featured gritty, soulful vocals and state-of-the-art, radio-friendly backing. On March 9, 2005, LeDoux passed away in Casper, Wyo., from complications stemming from ongoing cancer treatments. He was just 56 years old, and had recorded over 20 albums and sold close to six million.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Tanya Tucker</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[People struck by the "Lolita" phenomenon of younger and younger performers like Britney Spears and Leann Rimes seem to forget the controversy created when Tanya Tucker took material as mature as "Delta Dawn" and David Allen Coe's "Would You Lay With Me (In A Field of Stone)" into the charts in the early 1970s, at ages 13 and 15 respectively. Tucker's performing gift had been nurtured much earlier by her father, who had her performing in bars and clubs throughout the Southwest at age six. Tucker was one of the biggest country stars of the '70s, but her big, slightly raspy voice and often excellent material has been overshadowed by a life lived in the tabloid spotlight. Her marriage and divorce from Glenn Campbell and substance abuse problems all served to divert attention from her music. It's unfortunate, because Tucker really paved the way for a large number of female country stars that hit the charts in the '90s. She had an unprecedented career renaissance in 1991, winning the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Juice Newton</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember those ads for K-Tel Records begging you to buy some compilation album called <i>Storytellers</i> or <i>Love Songs</i> or just <i>Moods</i>? Well, one of those ads had a shot of doe-eyed Juice Newton strumming her guitar and warbling "Angel of the Morning" with her band in the background: She was portrayed as a sort of rugged country-girl pop star with her calico dress and slick, lite rock production values. As commercially viable in the pop charts as she was in the pre-Garth Brooks-era country charts, Newton had a string of number one hits from the late '70s and into the mid-'80s that combined the instrumentation and singing styles of New Traditionalists Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris with the pop sensibilities of '70s AM radio. She released her latest record of original material in 1989.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Johnny Paycheck</title>
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<category>Outlaw Country</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Most people know Johnny Paycheck for his huge hit from the 1970s "Take This Job and Shove It" and a number of other Nashville Country hits like "Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets." Few people realize that that was merely act two in a life that has seen more ups and downs than a roller coaster. Paycheck started his career at the tail end of the Rockabilly era, recording some undistinguished sides under the name Donny Young. At the time, he had already been dishonorably discharged from the service after doing hard time in the stockade for beating a superior officer. A gifted multi-instrumentalist proficient on bass, steel guitar, and guitar, Paycheck then spent quite a bit of time in the road bands of folks like Faron Young, Ray Price, and George Jones. The very thought of the substance abusing championship team of Jones and Paycheck makes the idea of Aerosmith's Toxic Twins -- Steven Tyler and Joe Perry -- pale in comparison. In the mid-'60s he made a series of stunningly original albums for the independent Little Darlin' record label. The work is marked by Paycheck's beautiful singing, emotionally raw songwriting, and the diamond hard sound of his recording band, led by pedal steel wiz Lloyd Green. These records did not sell particularly well, and by the mid -'70s Paycheck was broke and on skid row. He returned from obscurity later on that decade, recording with top Nashville producer Billy Sherrill. That relationship yielded many terrific sides as well as the aforementioned "Take This Job and Shove It." Despite his success, Paycheck's problems with alcohol and cocaine found him in a downward spiral which culminated in an 1985 incident in an Ohio bar in which he shot a man, and was subsequently sent to prison. Paycheck got out of prison a changed man who has slowly, but surely reclaimed his dignity and started to receive the respect as a writer and singer that he deserves. The Country Music Foundation reissued his Little Darlin' recordings in a critically acclaimed package.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Eddie Rabbitt</title>
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<category>Country Pop/Cosmopolitan</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn, New York's own Eddie Rabbitt defined the new breed of country star in the 1970s. He coupled urban rock hooks with the traditional Nashville sound, and sold millions of records in the process. Rabbitt, a strong songwriter, knew how to stay country enough while appealing to Middle America with such mega-hits as "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Every Which Way But Loose." In movies, it seems like half the time a bar brawl breaks out, there's an Eddie Rabbitt tune playing on the jukebox. During the last years of his life, in the late 1980s, Rabbit returned to a more traditional sound. This dropped him off the charts, but a whole new generation of country rockers have followed his lead. Eddie Rabbit was <i>the</i> Urban Cowboy. He never pretended to be anything else.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lee Greenwood</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Greenwood's smooth yet husky voice -- roughened up by years on the smoky casino circuit -- has often been compared to that of Kenny Rogers, but he has developed his own style over the years. Adding a touch of country to his Adult Contemporary style has produced several hits for him over the years, most notably "Dixie Road," "Hearts Aren't Made to Break (They're Made to Love)" and "I Don't Mind the Thorns (If You're the Rose)."
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Mickey Gilley</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although they never got married to each other, Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis were cousins. Gilley began playing music in the Killer's footsteps, blending country, soul, rock 'n' roll, blues, and R&B to create a tamer version of his cousin's sound. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Gilley found success in playing (and hosting) country music. Shortly before his 1974 hit "Room Full of Roses" began to climb the charts, Gilley opened his first Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Calif. The real rise to country superstardom came a few years later, when the urban cowboy trend took off and landed Gilley at the forefront of its mechanical bull antics. The release of <i>Urban Cowboy</i> in 1978 brought Gilley's music and his club national attention. His music and radio hits had an up-tempo rocking beat with subtle Honky-Tonk undertones, but the production seemed polished and plastic to hard-<i>corn</i> country enthusiasts; it wasn't long before the Urban Cowboy trend moved over to make room for Rubik's Cubes and oversized Frankie Goes to Hollywood T-shirts.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Exile</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:08:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kentucky Fried Country Rock with super slick production and homogenized vocal harmonies would have become Exile if there weren't so many other bands who sounded exactly like them. Not that they didn't have good songs. If you had been playing music since 1963, you would have your share of hits as well, even if you only played the telephone or the stapler. The band penned some songs that were covered by the likes of Alabama and Janie Fricke. They continue to play state fairs and clubs with in-house attendance.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Earl Thomas Conley</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earl Thomas Conley writes intelligent, narrative country songs about the troubles, trials and tribulations of the people in his life. His songwriting is honed and polished to a near-perfect and flawless sheen, and his romantic and textured voice walks the line between tenor and baritone as he passionately sings about matters of heart and home without sounding the least bit insincere. The straightforward candor of character and self-reflection in his songs has earned him the status as pioneer of "thinking man's country." Although the production on his recordings is glossy, slick and heavily commercialized, his songs shine through and move people in almost the same magnitude as those of the late Townes Van Zandt.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>C.W. McCall</title>
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<category>Truckin' Songs</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:33:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So here's a weird story. Remember that trucking craze in the mid-1970s that spawned the film <I>Convoy</I>, starring a shirtless Kris Kristofferson? Well, it was all C.W. McCall's fault. But his real name isn't C.W. McCall it's William Fries. And he really wasn't a big rig driver who honked it up on his C.B.; he was an advertising executive who stumbled into a music career by accident. While working on a radio campaign for an Omaha, Nebraska bakery, Fries invented McCall as a promotional tool: a character who would haul loads of bread and call Omaha radio stations from roadside truck stops, spurting out hilarious ramblings sprinkled with C.B. radio jargon (such as his "handle," Rubber Duck) to the delight of listeners. The campaign was a huge success, with everybody in the region talking about this funny C.W. McCall guy and his crazy trucker lingo. The fabricated character was such a hit that Fries decided to do what any red blooded American would do -- cash in. He recorded an album of quasi-countrypolitan/urban cowboy songs that were all about trucking, truckers and life on the road. McCall soon had a chart-topping hit in "Convoy," which inspired critically acclaimed filmmaker Sam Peckinpah to unleash an unintentionally campy film with the same name in 1978 starring Kristofferson, who, as mentioned above, seemed to lose his shirt four minutes into the film (this delighted Ali MacGraw, who was experimenting with a new perm as well as a script that was much lighter than <I>Love Story</I>). Six albums later, Fries hung up the McCall moniker and became an environmental activist before moving to Ouray, Colorado where he eventually became Mayor.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>John Conlee</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Simple but intelligent country music by a man who seems uninterested in the megalomania of show business. With a warm pedal steel, mellow picking, and country-dad vocals, John Conlee's music sounds like it's pumped through the speakers of big rigs everywhere. It certainly was in the late '70s and early '80s, when the former mortician had a string of #1 country hits, such as "Common Man," "Rose Colored Glasses," and the ever romantic "Lady Lay Down."
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Gene Watson</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Nicolette Larson</title>
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<category>Lite Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>T.G. Sheppard</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[T.G. Sheppard may have gotten his start a few years before the boom, but by the time John Travolta climbed atop a mechanical bull and Debra Winger got all wiggly over it, Sheppard was a major star in the nascent Urban Cowboy scene. Adopting the same sheen favored by so many of his colleagues as the new Country Pop sound, the Memphis star spent the Reagan years riding the charts and cranking out a string of major hits -- ten No. 1 songs, in fact. His novelty song "Make My Day" is worth the search for Clint Eastwood fans, for it features Dirty Harry himself delivering the famous line in a variety of straight-faced, corny situations. Made obsolete by the New Traditional movement of the late '80s and early '90s, Sheppard disappeared until 1997 when he released <I>Nothin' On But the Radio</i>, a respectably underproduced comeback record that featured the neo-traditional gem "She's Gettin' the Rock (And I'm Gettin' Stoned)," which unfortunately is not about crack cocaine.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Johnny Lee</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:03:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Best known for his hit "Lookin' For Love" as featured in the film <I>Urban Cowboy</I>, Johnny Lee stayed with that mid-tempo, pseudo Country-Rock formula for a long time. Although he landed a few other similar-sounding hits, it was perhaps his peaceful, easy voice that affected people the most.]]></description>
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<title>T. Graham Brown</title>
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<category>New Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">T. Graham Brown</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[T. Graham Brown ditched his ten-gallon Stetson, long hair, earring and overall Outlaw Country image for a less threatening, toned down, chart topping career of ballads, rockers, and Beach Boys covers. Since he left his Urban Cowboy and Country Rock sounds behind for pop success, Brown has also appeared in a couple of Taco Bell commercials. Much of Brown's music is polished New Country that manages to somehow take songs you wouldn't normally associate with the genre and feed them through a Nashville meat grinder to create crossover hits.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Mel McDaniel</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Mel McDaniel</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever identified with the 1981 box office flop, <i>Take This Job And Shove It</i> will also identify with the mellow Country Rock stylings of Mel McDaniel. His double-wide Urban Cowboy anthems contain such memorable lyrics as "There's only two things in the world that I need to get close to / That's a big ole brew, and a little ole you." McDaniel made his first big hit with the song "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," which landed him a healthy number of nominations for various Country Music Association awards as well as a Grammy. The songs included here caught the very tail end of the Urban Cowboy scene. They manage to blend a slick, but not over-polished, production with McDaniel's trademark mid-tempo musings.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Gatlin Brothers</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">The Gatlin Brothers</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Larry, Steve and Rudy Gatlin were one of the most popular Close Harmony Brother groups of country music in the 1970s and 1980s. Unlike the Everly Brothers or the Louvin Brothers, the Gatlins had a third next of kin to fill up more sonic space. They often found themselves at a musical intersection between innovative country songwriting and dumbed-down, radio-friendly commercial Country Pop songs. Larry was the band's founder and leader who cut his teeth in Nashville with the aid of Dottie West and Kris Kristofferson. He and his brothers birthed fifteen Top 40 hits, until the band decided to retire in 1991. At this time, the New Traditional style of country music was gaining momentum in popularity, leaving little room for the expired stylings of the Gatlin Brothers' glassy and pristine recordings. In 1993, the brothers had some solo experiments behind them, and a reunion of recorded songs on a smaller label called Branson.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sylvia</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:46:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rick Trevino</title>
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<category>New Country</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:22:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Rick Trevino</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez, Raul Malo and a handful of others, Rick Trevino is a Latin-American man who plays country music. He was born into a musical family, growing up with Tejano music as well as whatever was pumping through the classic rock radio stations he listened to in his youth. During his high school years, he studied music and excelled at basketball, actually turning down a basketball scholarship offered from Memphis State to pursue musical studies instead. In 1993, Trevino released his first album (in Spanish) entitled <I>Dos Mundos</I> followed by "Just Enough Rope," one of the first new traditional country singles to be released in both Spanish and English.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Ronnie McDowell</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:05:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Ronnie McDowell</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of Urban Cowboy country music artists, Ronnie McDowell was heavily influenced by the King. Probably more so than anyone who ever played at Gilly's. In fact, he was the voiceover on a 1979 made-for-TV movie about Elvis that starred Kurt Russell as the King. The stint turned into a pseudo-obsession, and McDowell soon found himself donning all the aesthetics of a regular Las Vegas Elvis impersonator. Although his up-tempo, hook-laden, Country Pop sounds a bit more like Ronnie Milsap after downing a pot of coffee, McDowell went on to do more voiceovers for the 1990 television series, <i>Elvis</i>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Larry Gatlin</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:16:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Larry Gatlin</rhap:artist>
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<title>Tommy Johnston</title>
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<category>Bakersfield Sound</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Charly McClain</title>
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<category>Urban Cowboy</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>J.W. Lance</title>
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<category>Country</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:15:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The country line-dancing version of the song popularized by the Drifters. Competent playing and a smooth, ingratiating vocal style still don't answer the question "was this really necessary?"
- Chris Slater]]></description>
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<title>Alan Spencer Hale</title>
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<category>New Traditional</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:32:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alan Hale (not to be confused with the Alan Hale who played The Skipper on <i>Gilligan's Island) is a country singer with a vocal range as long and wide as his mullet. Hale's infectious Country Pop seems influenced by a lot of New Traditional and Urban Cowboy bands. His guitars have some of the warmest tones to grace the internet.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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