Austin 360
Shannon McNally isn t an Austinite, but the singer-songwriter who currently calls Nashville home has ties to the Live Music Capital. She s spent much of the past few years singing Texas songwriter Terry Allen s band alongside prominent Austin musicians such as Lloyd Maines and Charlie Sexton. And South Austin venue Sam s Town Point has became a local home base of sorts for McNally, a place for her to work out new material with her band in an intimate setting.
On May 28, Compass Records will release The Waylon Sessions, an album of songs popularized by the late Waylon Jennings. The record features guest appearances by Jennings widow, Jessi Colter, as well as Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller and Lukas Nelson.
Live in Texas: Highwaymen – Live: American Outlaws – 4-29-21
Rolling another two-week event with Live In Texas!
It’s Highwaymen – Live: American Outlaws
Disc 1 on 4/29, Disc 2 on 5/6
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AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson first performed as the Highwaymen in 1985, after which they became a going concern for the next decade. Hits didn’t often arrive their 1985 debut reached the top of Billboard’s Country Album charts and its title track achieved the same feat on the singles chart but they became a reliable concert attraction after the release of Highwayman 2 in 1990. The 2016 archival release of Live: American Outlaws is the first official document of this part of the supergroup’s life, providing the first-ever CD release of the March 14, 1990 show recorded at Nassau Coliseum that was previously released on VHS in 1991 (the video portion has been remastered and r
Top 100 Country Songs of All Time
By Kelsey Weekman, Stacker News
On 12/31/20 at 6:00 AM EST
From classic country tunes to contemporary country sounds, these 100 songs are an essential part of music history and showcase some of the most impressive storytelling skills in the country music genre. To find the top country songs of all time, Stacker analyzed Billboard s Greatest of All-Time Top Country Songs to create a ranked list of classic tracks and modern hits from 1959 to present day.
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This list is remarkably varied, proving country music as a genre is broader than some may believe; it also shows how the genre has grown to feature a redefined picture of the classic country superstar, from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, Sam Hunt, and Kacey Musgraves. Some even say the sound of country music has changed: Younger subgenres of country music include bro-country (Sam Hunt,