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A chat with Jake Owen: Country to a tee
No one loves the story of the tortoise and the hare more than – well, a tortoise. The slowpoke that prefers to do everything at a snail’s pace. And while slogging through life might earn you the...
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Country Thunder Day 1 in pictures (Photos)
For the five people in Arizona that weren’t at day one of Country Thunder – hope your lessons in advanced Klingon went well. Because everyone else in the Grand Canyon State got to hear some...
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Country Thunder Day 2 in pictures (Photos)
Right smack dab in the middle of nine outstanding hours of sun-drenched country entertainment, 18,000 eager Country Thunder Arizona fans welcomed a fantastic act to the main stage that originally...
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Country Thunder Day 3 in pictures (Photos)
When the fans at this year’s Country Thunder Arizona awoke to nothin’ but grey skies on Day 3, it was déjà vu all over again as they remembered last year’s misty merriment. I...
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Country Thunder top 10 list (Photos)
As country icon Alan Jackson left the main stage after finishing up his Country Thunder concluding set, there were just a “few” remaining unanswered questions – 20,000 of them to be exact. And the...
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Country stars sing for St. Jude: In it for the long run
There’s nothing like a little carbo-loading before a big race – especially when you dish it up with a lot of great country music. Grammy Award-winning country star Jo Dee Messina will feed people’s...
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Stagecoach rides again: Day 1 recap (Photos)
Day 1 of country music’s premier festival started with a bang – uh, make that a band – the Eli Young Band to be exact. The red-hot Texas quartet kicked off Stagecoach 2012 with a sizzling opening...
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Stagecoach day 2 in photos: Gold in them thar hills (Photos)
Decisions, decisions. The 60,000 rapturous fans at the first-day of country music’s foremost festival were beyond ecstatic as they came, saw and heard five fabulous acts on the Stagecoach Mane...
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Stagecoach day 3 in photos: The end of the line (Photos)
A picture is worth a thousand words. So here in just a few pictures – and several thousand words – are a few closing thoughts on the closing day of Stagecoach 2012.The third day of country music’s...
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Love a parade? Robert Earl Keen ready for confetti
It’s fitting somehow that a man known for his prosaic abilities with complex social themes, Robert Frost, famously said, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes...
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Outlaw unleashed: Waylon Jennings last recordings to be released
No need to fear. That noise you hear is the buzz building for the eagerly anticipated release of Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Last Recordings of Waylon Jennings. Longtime friends and fans of the country...
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Lee Greenwood responds to musical madness: Proud to be un-American
Since the dawn of man – or so it would seem – parents have lamented the disturbing availability of illegal drugs in elementary schools. And the troubling proliferation of dangerous weapons in the...
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Brantley Gilbert headlines sizzling Summer Throwdown
To the delight of procrastinators everywhere, former Vice-President Aaron Burr once reportedly said, “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow” – sage “advice” that some of you apparently...
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No stopping the Sugarland express (Photos)
There was loads of laughter, lots of surprises – and a celebratory song or two. There might even have been a couple of fans rejoicing in a little bit of birthday revelry. But the mirthful masses at...
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MIM’s the word for country music
Other than offering the occasional opportunity to belt out a wholly authentic “Summer In The City,” Phoenix’ fiery solstice just ain’t my cup of sun tea. But give me a chance to hear some...
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Miranda Lambert interview: Hot as a pistol
To the uninitiated, a Scoville heat unit could easily be mistaken for one of those newfangled energy efficient furnaces that save bazillions of dollars in heating costs. But any serious epicurean will...
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A chat with Aaron Lewis: Country comfort in his bones (Photos)
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes “world renowned head banger” Pat Boone to startle us with his metallic masterwork, In A Metal Mood. And if that doesn’t make your head...
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Independence Day Music Festival: Miranda Lambert sizzles in Scottsdale (Photos)
In response to “plummeting” temperatures before the Independence Day Music Festival , desperate concert organizers considered busting out space heaters, hand warmers – heck, anything to help suffering...
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Rascally LeVox, DeMarcus and Mooney flatten Phoenix (Photos)
An incredibly powerful force blew through Arizona recently, wreaking havoc, spreading grit, and obliterating everything in its path. And oh yeah, there was a haboob too. But a big ol’ dust storm’s got...
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Farley, Bryan and Aldean blaze into Phoenix: Beauty and the beasts (Photos)
Over the last decade, the “level-headed discussion” as to the existence of climate change has continued to, ahem, heat up. And while soldiers on both sides of the global warming war have been able to...
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