The country musician is interviewed and performs.
David Wallechinsky | Posted 10.27.2008 | Entertainment
While prowling the Internet for songs about Barack Obama, I was impressed by the variety of musical genres that have taken to the Democratic candidate.
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.25.2008 | Entertainment
One of the nice things about the collapse of the record industry is that the few remaining people at the major labels pay more and more attention to t...
David Roberts | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green
The only thing Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future astroturf group has lacked up to now, in terms of becoming a full-fledged parody of modern-day economic royalism masquerading as populism, is a piss-poor country song.
Johann Hari | Posted 09.07.2008 | Entertainment
How did a style of music midwifed into the world by Ozzy Osbourne in the old English industrial town of Birmingham in the mid-1960s become an enemy of jihadism?
Mark Bazer | Posted 08.11.2008 | Entertainment
Hello, I host a live talk show at The Hideout in Chicago. Here, in two parts, is an interview I did (and filmed by Ben Chandler and Kevin Viol) with ...
Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment
Colbert's studio audience clapped to Keith's song, blithely unaware that they were swaying to a racially tinged, explicitly pro-lynching anthem that calls for the vigilante-style hanging of car thieves.
Susan Neiman | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Like anything else, unashamed sentimentality can be part of a pose. Not every red state expression of sentiment is genuine, and not every blue state expression of skepticism is caustic.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home
Famed country music singer Eddy Arnold has died at the age of 89: Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him ...
Ken Levine | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
Maybe it's because I'm not a huge fan of country music (it's fine for playing in the background at barbeque joints) but Dolly Parton wrote 3,000 songs and they all sound the same to me.
Michael Giltz | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
Dolly Parton is one of the most talented songwriters in country music history, has a sensational voice and has recorded more great albums than you can shake a stick at.
Steve Anderson | Posted 10.30.2007 | Entertainment
Country music is an art form rooted in the triumphs, tragedies, and pathos that occur in everyday lives. We just lost one of the master practitioners of this unique American art form, Porter Wagoner.
RJ Eskow | Posted 09.25.2007 | Entertainment
Shaver's reputation is close to legendary. Waylon Jennings did an entire album of his songs, and they've been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Willie Nelson to Elvis Presley.
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Mark Bazer | Posted 01.06.2009 | Chicago