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Tweet Photo: Alysse Gafkjen “You have to have some charm to play classic country — you have to have respect for your instrument,” says Shannon McNally, who is talking to me on the phone about her new full-length The Waylon Sessions. The album features songs written and recorded by the great outlaw-country singer Waylon Jennings. I’m catching up with McNally as she’s making her way up I-55 out of Jackson, Miss., where she’s played a show, back home to Nashville by way of Memphis. I think I get what she’s telling me about charm. Indeed, McNally found ...

Rolling Stone Oddball Folkie Peter Stampfel’s Spice Girls Cover Is a Daring Stunt That Works The folk veteran’s new album covers one song each from the 20th century, and 1996 is represented by — yes— the first major hit by the fab five of the U.K. By When you think of the most enduring songs of the 20th century, which ones come to mind? How about Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue”? Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies”? The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset”? Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”? Acid-folk guru Peter Stampfel concurs with all those choices, and as his new al...

Alice Hoagland fought to keep the legacy of her son, Mark Bingham, alive. (Jemal Countess/Getty) Alice Hoagland, the mother of gay 9/11 hero Mark Bingham and inclusive rugby champion, has died aged 71 after a long battle with Addison’s disease. Hoagland died on 22 December at her home in Los Gatos, California, AP News reported. She was remembered by International Gay Rugby as “its biggest supporter and the surrogate mother for many rugby players who found a way forward through their involvement with rugby through their involvement with rugby and the Bingham Cup.” She became involved w...

Mandel Ngan/AP Alice Hoagland, the mother of 9/11 victim Mark Bingham and beloved mother figure in the global gay rugby movement had died. Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement that her own son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight 93, has died. She was 71. Hoagland, a former flight attendant who became a safety activist while carrying on her son’s athletic legacy, died Dec. 22 in her sleep at her home in Los Gallos, California, after battling Addison's disease, according to longtime ...

Towleroad Gay News Alice Hoagland, the mother of gay 9/11 hero and rugby player Mark Bingham, died last month at the age of 71 but the news of her death broke this week. The AP reports: “Hoagland, a former flight attendant who became a safety activist while carrying on her son’s athletic legacy, died Dec. 22 in her sleep at her home in Los Gallos, California, after battling Addison’s disease, according to longtime family friend Amanda Mark. International Gay Rugby – an organisational that traces its roots to one team in London in 1995 and now consists of about 90 clubs in more than 2...