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Dissecting Shreveport’s Country Music Legend Faron Young Faron Young was a country music musician who took Nashville by storm from the 50s through the 70s. But, his beginnings were a little more humble. Faron was born in Shreveport Louisiana on February 25th, 1932 to a family that worked on a dairy farm on the outskirts of town. The future country music star, according to his six siblings was the only one of the six that could carry a tune. Apparently he was good at it as well. Faron use to hang out on his porch near the fence where the cows were kept, and would play guitar and sing for th...

On April 3, 1948 -- 73 years ago today -- the influential radio program  Louisiana Hayride premiered. The weekly Saturday night country music show was recorded live in front of an audience. Louisiana Hayride broadcast from Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium and aired on the 50,000-watt AM radio powerhouse KWKH — meaning it could be heard in faraway places such as Chicago, Ill., and Los Angeles, Calif. The show was founded (and named) by Horace Lee Logan, who had been a DJ on the station since 1932. "I wanted something that would promote country music — and then localize it," Logan o...

Derailers   My Heart's Ready Where Ya Been Vision to Dream On She Left Me Cold - The Derailers, Hofeldt, Brian 100% Pure Fool - The Derailers, Villanueva, Tony O. Tarnished Love Desperate Ways The Derailers are proud to be stuck in the '50s. Their suits, ties, boots, haircuts, even their sound, all slavishly imitate the honky-tonk fashions of 40 years ago. This theatrical, time-capsule approach to music can be a...   more » lot of fun in a nightclub, where your only competition is the bar band next door. It makes a lot less sense on a stereo, where the visuals are limited to tiny phot...

A rare artist who is simultaneously gone too soon but beloved for eternity Patsy Cline is a rare artist who is simultaneously gone too soon but beloved for eternity. Cline died, tragically, at the age of 31, on March 5, 1963, following a post-concert plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. Her ability to gently weave her voice around and through country ballads is legendary. Ultimately, it will inspire vocalists in all genres looking to encapsulate love’s tender hold over our hearts until the end of time. Amazingly enough, “I Fall To Pieces” and “Crazy” — the ballads for which Clin...

Fearless. The new take is from her forthcoming re-recording of the album, Fearless (Taylor's Version). (Re-recordings of older songs or albums are treated separately from their originals, with independent chart histories for each version.) "This is my first time having a No. 1 debut on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and I'm so grateful to the fans for making this a possibility," Swift tells Billboard. "They're the ones who emboldened me to reclaim my music and they really showed up this week to see it through. It blows me away that they've sent a song to No. 1 that had its first li...