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Beyoncé stunned the world by releasing “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” during the Super Bowl and announcing she would […] The post Beyoncé likened to a dog by actor who starred in sitcom featuring car with confederate flag appeared first on TheGrio.

John Schneider ("The Dukes of Hazzard") the actor and country music singer compared Beyoncé to a dog peeing

When the celebrated country musician Hank Williams died on New Year’s Day in 1953 in a car on his way to a performance in Canton, Ohio, he had been traveling from Charleston, West Virginia, on U.S. Route 19, one of a series of north-south arteries that had conveyed millions of struggling Southern white people from Appalachia to new lives in the industrial Upper Midwest. This “Hillbilly Highway,” as historian Max Fraser calls it, was a dense network of interstate roads that couriered the jo...

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CountryLine Radio: the new name for Chris Country. The UK's Country Music Radio Station

Eagle Country 99.3 is Your Hometown Radio Station

A deep dive into the Sabinal-bred singer’s duet with Tucker from his new album, ‘Building Bridges.’

Mystery to Me hosts discussion of "Traveler: The Musical Odyssey of Tim O’Brien," new book, with Doug Moe, on Crowdcast. Free. RSVP for link.

Isthmus Picks for Jan. 23-26 a book talk by Bill C. Malone and Bobbie Malone; MMoCA Cinema screening of ‘Riotsville, U.S.A.’

The best contemporary music books on this list are specific and sweeping, creating new narratives that challenge dominant orthodoxy on music and its histories.