Happy Birthday, Reba McEntire!
March 28, 2007
Happy 52nd, Reba!
Archive for March, 2007
Beats All You Never Saw
March 28, 2007
The balladeer, Waylon Jennings, scores the first RIAA platinum-selling country ring tone for “Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ (Good Ol’ Boys).”
Well folks, looks like country music is in another pickle. Can innovative, quality new music make it to fans’ ears before the suits in Nashville bankroll the creation of ring tones from the catalog of dead artists? Stay tuned…
Flatt & Scruggs on DVD
March 27, 2007
I once read a baby name book that claimed that a name encapsulates the parents’ hopes for that child. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs weren’t named to be astronauts or butlers, but if their parents were fixin’ to name bluegrass legends — done and done. The duel paterfamilias of bluegrass make their first appearance on DVD today via the release of The Best of Flatt & Scruggs TV Show Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The show features great performances from the duo with their band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. (That’s right, live performances. If you’re under 30, pronounce the words slowly to yourself, then look it up on Wikipedia.)
Flatt and Scruggs were kind of like the Paris and Nicole of the 1950s and 1960s, minus the flashing, plus talent. Okay, so not really like Paris and Nicole at all, but they were two people and they were on a show. Bootleg tapes of the show have long been the treasure of any serious bluegrass fans, but now they’re for everyone to enjoy.
New Tim McGraw Today
March 27, 2007
Brooklyn CasHank Thursday
March 27, 2007 
The Village Voice’s winner for Best Hootenany Series — CasHank — is back this Thursday at Buttermilk in Brooklyn.
NYC Opry Friday
March 27, 2007 
Don’t forget the NYC Opry this Friday, March 30 at ACME (9 Great Jones St). Doors at 7:30/ $8.
8:00 Jan Bell
9:00 Andi Rae
10:00 Alex Battles’ Whiskey Rebellion
11: 00 Jessica Rose & the High Life
Scalping may be legal in NY soon
March 20, 2007Governor Eliot Spitzer may allow New York scalping laws that he believes “don’t work” to expire in June, favoring a system of sanctioned resellers. Theater owners — previously staunch defenders of scalping laws — have suddenly changed their tune:
“We believe that ticket prices would probably not skyrocket if the cap placed on the resale of tickets were to be lifted,” Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the League of American Theatres & Producers, wrote in a recent letter to state officials obtained by The Post.
“An increase in the number of legal resellers (who comply with licensing and other regulations) will increase legal competition in the marketplace and drive prices down,” Schoenfeld wrote.
Down? I’m no economist, but how could the ticket prices be driven below the retail price at which the scalpers purchase tickets? I know this policy may work for other states, but in New York — where theaters are small, fans are plentiful and industry-types fill the seats before anyone else gets a chance — will this system benefit the regular fan at all? [Source]
Happy Birthday, Jerry Reed!
March 20, 2007
Snowman turns 70 today.
Last of the Breed
March 20, 2007
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price’s joint effort, Last of the Breed is out today.
Willie to be Put on Notice?
March 20, 2007
Look for Willie Nelson to get nailed tonight on the Colbert Report at 10:30EDT on Comedy Central.
