Loretta Lynn Play on Broadway, More Country Info
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Zooey Deschanel will play Loretta Lynn on Broadway, Lynn is reported very pleased with the planned show, a musical I guess, and with the lead casting. Hmmmm, don't know bout dat, if I dig the thought of Zooey in this. Recently read the June Carter Cash bio by her son John Carter Cash. Loretta bragged in the book that she always resembled June, and vice versa. I learned the original Carter Family discovered the great guitarist Chet Atkins, whom Paul Mc. reveres. And that everyone in June and Johnny's nuclear family were hooked on all kinds of drugs and pills--they were too rich for their own good and could buy them I reckon. A lot more peeps perhaps would become drug addicts if they could afford it. One case in which it's preferable to be less well off financially.
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Crystal Bowersox of American Idol fame will play Patsy Cline on Broadway in the Loretta Lynn musical
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Randy Travis hospitalized in "critical condition" with a "viral heart infection." Get Well, Randy. He's from Charlotte.
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Miranda Lambert said she loves the Honey Boo Boo show (earth shattering news, isn't it)
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It turns out Travis suffered a stroke, and is still in critical condition. Alice Cooper has criticized Mumford and Sons for not being a "rock" band. (Some say they're a folk rock band tinged at times with country rock.) Cooper doesn't like any bands featuring those elements and pontificates these should never call themselves "rock." Somebody commented Alice has become a "right Wing conservative Christian." He still doesn't look conservative, though
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Some guy on "Saturday Night Live" in a recent Entertainment Weekly magazine called the wild eclectic country rock-pop-rock-bluesy "Ram" by Paul Mc. "the greatest album ever made."
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Mazzy Star band coming back after 17 years...I liked a few of hers, but not all that many. I'm still wondering why Cranberries didn't make a big splash when they came out with a new album.
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Bob Dylan's "Another Self Portrait" album is coming up, with a whopping 35 unreleased tracks in the country rock-folk rock-ballads-style of "Self Portrait" unexpected songs from Dylan decades back. Perhaps these are mostly sung in the fuller, warmer, deeper singing style of Dylan in Nashville and "New Morning." This is gonna be a good'un
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While reading Keith Richards' "A Life" I noted that he and the other Stones loved hearing George Jones. Considered Jones authentic, "the real thing."
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One of Loretta Lynn's daughters, Betty Sue, has died.
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Heard an awful song by Taylor Swift on the radio twice lately, it seemed to go on and on (didn't catch its name), another one with her griping and going off on some guy, really tearing him down with a sneer in her weak whine of a singing voice. I wonder why anyone thinks she can sing.
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Blake Shelton has started making fun of his wife Miranda Lambert and putting her down like Russell Brand did/still does of Katy Perry. Trying to grab attention, probably. The greasy grubby looking Brand, especially, is a real cad (to use an old fashioned term). He recently told a crowd he had to "think of other women" while having sex with Perry. She really knows how to pick 'em
The latest dig at Lambert is that she's like an enraged terrifying bear when Blake Shelton gets her mad. I get the sense many people think Shelton is cheating on her. He was so sexy in that "Honkey Tonk" video that I regarded him fondly for a time. Yet always remained faithful to "American Idol" and never saw "The Voice." -
SusyLuvsPaul:
One of Loretta Lynn's daughters, Betty Sue, has died.
Awe That is to bad.
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Tim McGraw has teamed up with the weak-voiced but popular Taylor Swift for a new song and video.
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Miley Cryrus caused a ruckus at the Video Music Awards show with her "twerking" or dirty dancing (what they used to call it), but I thought she was really amusing and funny with her hypersexy parody of Madonna, Britney Spears, et. al.'s stage antics. Taylor Swift made a fool of herself I thought with her emotional bragging about her video award and stated "You know who you are" that some thought directed towards her ex-Harry Styles (in the audience). He looked a little irritated but mostly bored when she said that. She'd won for her "We are Never Ever Getting Back Together" ditty.
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The U.K. Daily Mail Online reported Taylor Swift was "turned away" by a popular Los Angeles restaurant saying they were "too busy" and it was "full" but actually the owner didn't like her. A bitter backlash. Thinking bout it I realized Britney Spears is another I can't understand why she's a big singing star, she can't sing either.
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Miley Cyrus is completely naked in her new video,naked breasts visible as she swings around on a big wrecking ball. Maybe she did take things a little too far, this time. But I recall Madonna posed completely nude in her lurid 1980's "Sex" book. You can't see Miley's privates "down there" except for flashes of her behind, but Madonna exhibited All.
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LeeAnn Rimes was felled by a mysterious "virus infection" in Ireland, cancels concert and is in hospital.
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Many on the Net are complaining that Carrie Underwood "murdered" the famous song "Yesterday" on last night's t.v. Emmy Award Show's 50th anniversary tribute to the Beatles. Not caring about the Emmys, I missed it. I probably didn't miss much.
Paul Mc. wrote a "very sweet" note to Underwood giving her his blessing to sing "Yesterday" on the show, she revealed. He was being kind. The show's producers already had asked her to do it. Underwood's filling the Tammy Wynette slot in country music (Miranda Lambert also has that shrill, high-pitched caterwauling Tammy sound), there will always be a demand for that in country music. The sound works with some of her songs. Not so much, with others and it's unbearably grating and shrill, to my ears. So many absolutely love that, though. -
A big opera on Anna Nicole Smith HAS been produced and shown, I was startled to see on a telly entertainment show. I'd read a report months ago about this project but doubted its veracity. The audience and critics raved, gave it a standing "O" and a man stated the tragic Texas bombshell's story "has all the elements of the great operas." Sort of cool, an opera about a current albeit somewhat sordid cheesy cheesecake presence in pop culture. Southern "white trash" some would charge. Well, she's not been gone all that long. This new opera had its debut in London, I think, unless I misheard. Will find out for certain.
