Grupo Fantasma (Photo by Daniel Perlaky)

The Backyard bows out — for now
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A Grupo happy guys
Once again,
soul star
Prince
tapped his
new favorite
band,
Austin’s own
Grupo
Fantasma, to
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appear with
him on some high-profile gigs — The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno and a headlining slot at
the recent Coachella Festival in Indio, Calif.
Actually, he singled out the fabulous
JewMex Horns section, but that’s more
than a third of the 11-member band.
Grupo trumpeter Gilbert Elorreaga told
Texas Music, “There is a great sense of
accomplishment that comes with being
chosen to play with Prince, especially since
we were all influenced by his music. We
were honored to have the trust of a musician of his caliber and get the chance to
play Coachella. Then, when we were told
that Prince wanted us to play with him for
the Leno gig, too ... that just felt like another incredible gift along the way.”
Prince must have given the Grupo gang
quite a workout, though maybe they got to
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take a break when he covered Radiohead’s
“Creep” at Coachella. Not your typical
Grupo fare. Whatever. We hope they got a
nice chunk of the reported $4.8 million the
Purple One got for his denied-until-the-lastminute appearance. Grupo’s new album,
Sonidos Gold, drops June 17.
Austin concert promoter Tim O’Connor,
owner of Direct Events and the Backyard
Live Oak Amphitheatre, has announced he
will close what was, until recently, a shining
jewel on the Austin concert scene. O’Connor
has reluctantly accepted the sad reality that
the Shops at the Galleria shopping center,
built around the once-bucolic Backyard, has
ruined the ambiance it once had — not to
mention created a hellacious parking situation that forces concertgoers to trek to the
venue from far-flung lots. Since it opened in
1993, the outdoor venue, on Route 71 in Bee
Cave, hosted new talents and old favorites.
Willie played it annually; David Bowie had
the Polyphonic Spree open for him there;
Jimmy Buffett played when Seagram’s held
the launch party there for his Margaritaville
tequila. Beck, Coldplay, Rodney Crowell and
Widespread Panic are just a few of the
Guthrie, Nelson girls team
with Trudell for health cause
Several famous daughters — including two
of Willie Nelson’s and one of Arlo Guthrie’s
— will take to the stage at La Zona Rosa in
Austin Sunday, May 11, for Give Love Give
Life, a Mother’s Day concert to raise awareness about ovarian cancer, build support for
women’s health and push the issue of
health insurance coverage for women and
children into the national spotlight. The
concert is one of several occurring nationwide. The lineup will feature the Paula
Nelson Band, Folk Uke (Amy Nelson and
Cathy Guthrie), Herald and Mod (featuring
Willie’s granddaughter, Martha Fowler) and
John Trudell and Bad Dog. Trudell, a
renowned Native American poet, musician
and activist, is one of the Give Love Give
Life movement’s founders. For more info,
visit www.givelovegivelife.net.
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many other names who graced its treeshrouded stage. Since the Galleria was built,
concertgoers weren’t the only ones lamenting. Artists such as Chris Isaak bemoaned
the loss of the woodsy area where he loved
to run before shows; others sounded similar
complaints. O’Connor is in talks with the
city of Bee Cave to resurrect the venue on
another site; meanwhile, he’s closing the
place with a bang: artists from Snoop Dogg
to ZZ Top are slated to perform this season.
Toadies return to Possum Kingdom
Scream along if you remember this one (and
we know you do): “Do you wanna die?” That
was the question posed by Toadies frontman
Vaden Todd Lewis on the Fort Worth rockers’
1994 breakout hit, “Possum Kingdom” — and
you just know it’s gonna go over like gangbusters at the band’s first “Dia De Los
Toadies” throwdown Aug. 31 at Possum
Kingdom Lake. Guests on the Labor Day
Weekend bill will include Lions, Dove Hunter,
the Backsliders and the Tejas Brothers. The
Toadies should be good and limbered up by
the time they take the stage; Lewis, drummer
Mark Reznicek, guitarist Clark Vogeler and a
stand-in bassist to be named later will kick off
a handful of summer tour dates on June 20
at Sunset Station in San Antonio and June 21
at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth. But
don’t bother trying to buy a ticket to that Fort
Worth show — it sold out almost immediately,
as did the Toadies’ June 26 date at the
Bowery Ballroom in New York City.
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Big opening bow for nelo
Austin roots-rock sextet nelo’s self-titled
debut, released April 22, made an impressive showing its first week in stores, with
sales of nearly 2,000 copies putting it at
No. 21 on Billboard‘s Heatseeker chart and
No. 65 on the magazine’s Independent
Albums chart. The band’s next Texas show
is May 9 at the Meridian in Houston.
Songwriters sing for the dogs
across Texas
Miranda Lambert’s
first “Cause for the
Paws” wine tasting
festival and concert,
held in Tyler on April
20, raised more than
$113,000 for the
Humane Society of
East Texas. Her own
dog, Delilah, was
adopted from the
facility in 2007.
Lambert wasn’t
Susan Gibson at Perros de Mayo the only Texas artist
howling in song for “man’s best friend” in
recent weeks. On April 27, Rick Broussard of
Two Hoots and a Holler hosted a benefit for
the Austin Humane Society at Roadhouse
Rags, featuring performances by Chadd
Thomas, Chrissy Flatt & Eric Hisaw, Herman
the German, the Ugly Beats, the TexReys and
Robert Banta. And on May 4, Seela, Graham
Wilkinson, Sally Allen, Terri Hendrix, Susan
Gibson, Hilary York, Ian Moore and
Porterdavis all performed at Perros de Mayo,
a benefit for Blue Dog Rescue held at the
Ginger Man in downtown Austin.
Reports say Emilio Navaira
intoxicated at time of crash
According to various Texas news sources,
Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was legally
drunk when he crashed the tour bus he was
driving into a median barrier on Loop 610 in
Houston early on Easter Sunday (March 23).
The singer, who was thrown through the
windshield, was in critical condition and initially not expected to live, though he has progressed to the point that he has even played
a bit of guitar, his brother Raul Navaira told
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moved to a rehab center one month after
the accident. The Express-News said the
singer had also been charged with DWI in
January of 2005 after rolling an SUV.
Rosie Flores, T-Birds to play
for Candye Kane
Among the benefits taking place all over the
U.S. and Europe for bawdy blues/rockabilly
singer/pianist Candye Kane, who is battling
pancreatic cancer, is one slated for May 29 at
Antone’s in Austin. Hosted by Susan Antone,
Rosie Flores and the Austin Chronicle’s
Margaret Moser, the event will feature Flores,
Kim Wilson & the Fabulous Thunderbirds,
Paula Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver “and friends.”
Tickets are $12 at www.antones.net.
Meanwhile, Ray Benson, Sara Hickman, Chip
Taylor, Kathy Valentine and Bobby Whitlock
and Coco Carmel will take the stage at
Antone’s on May 14 to raise funds for Moser’s
brother, Stephen, who has prostate cancer.
Los Lonely Boys’ Saxon homecoming sells out in under 40 minutes
They outgrew the place years ago, but Los
Lonely Boys will be returning to South
Austin’s cozy Saxon Pub May 24 for a concert benefiting Music for Literacy. But don’t
trip over yourself racing to get in — all tickets
were gone in 37 minutes. Earlier that same
day, the Garza brothers will give guitar lessons to 20 children from Big Brothers/Big
Sisters and the Sunshine Camp of Austin.
The Boys will be back in town July 3 for an
in-store at Waterloo Records to celebrate the
July 1 release of their new album, Forgiven.
Deadline looms for AMA Festival
showcase submissions
Procrastination-prone artists still hoping to
score a performance spot at this year’s
Americana Music Festival and Conference
(Sept. 17-20 in Nashville) need to get a move
on: The deadline for showcase submissions is
May 30. The application form can be found
at www.americanamusic.org. Registrations
for the conference are on sale now.
Roots Music Association
conference, artists put on hold
Dozens of performers from throughout Texas
and the U.S., not to mention Canada, were
inconvenienced — or worse — when the
Wimberley-based Roots Music Association
was forced to postpone its first conference,
slated for June 26-29 in San Antonio, after
the Alzafar Shrine Center pulled out as the
host site. Though plans are being made to
reschedule and relocate the Music United ’08
Radio Conference and Music Festival, artists
and conference-goers who had already made
travel plans could be stuck eating at least
some costs for flight changes, juggled gigs,
etc. Conference planners have said that all
artists already accepted for showcases will
still be able to showcase at the rescheduled
event. For more information, go to
www.rootsmusicassociation.org.
McMurtry invites video makers
to play with “Cheney’s Toy”
Acid-tongued Austin singer-songwriter
James McMurtry is looking for a few good
videos to go with the sharp lyrical barbs of
his latest diatribe, “Cheney’s Toy.” McMurtry
has extended an invitation to amateur
videographers to submit visual versions of
the song, featured on his new album, Just
Us Kids (which just debuted at No. 136 on
Billboard’s Top 200 and at No. 2 on the
magazine’s Heatseekers chart). McMurtry
plans to choose five to display on his Web
site, www.jamesmcmurtry.com, and
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maker an 8-GB iPod Nano.
Rolling Stone loves Waterloo
Waterloo Records and Video has won “Best
Record Store” so many times in the annual
Austin Music Awards, they might as well
change the name of the category to “Best
Record Store Other Than Waterloo.” But
how does it rank nationally? According to
Rolling Stone’s May 1 “Best of Rock” issue,
Waterloo is the third best record store in
America — behind Chicago’s Dusty Groove
and Los Angeles’ mammoth Amoeba Music.
Blue Shoe Blues festival to showcase Blue Shoe Project’s Grammy
Wanna see a real Grammy Award? You can
at the Blue Shoe Blues in the Village festival
May 10 in Colleyville. In addition to performances by Elvis T. Busboy and the Blues
Butchers, Tutu Jones, Maquise “Big Daddy”
Knox and the Hard Knox Blues Band and
Gerry Moss, the 2-9 p.m. event will feature
the public unveiling of the Best Traditional
Blues Album Grammy that Michael Dyson,
co-founder of the Blue Shoe Project, won for
his role in producing Last of the Great
Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas.
Dyson’s Grammy actually got lost in the mail
when the Recording Academy sent it to him
after the awards show earlier this year, and
only recently found its way to Texas.
Eric Johnson joins all-stars
on Landreth album
Eric Johnson is among the players tapped
by Louisiana slide guitar wizard Sonny
Landreth for his latest project, From the
Reach, due May 20. Other collaborators
include Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and
Vince Gill. Landreth comes to Austin Aug. 6
for a Blues on the Green date.
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Homer’s Backyard Ball
6-10
Behind Splash Waterpark on I-40
Tejano Conjunto Festival
Amarillo
Rosedale Park
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San Antonio
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Texas Natural & Western Swing Festival
Downtown
10
San Marcos
Blue Shoe Blues in the Village
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Colleyville
22-6/8
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Kerrville Folk Festival
Quiet Valley Ranch
Kerrville
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23-25
Dallas Artfest
Robert Earl Keen
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Fair Park
Dallas
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12th Annual KNBT
Americana Music Jam
May 18, Gruene Hall
Los Tex Maniacs will perform a free concert at
the Big Squeeze accordion concert May 11.
Robert Earl Keen returns to his
11
old stomping grounds at
The Big Squeeze
Gruene Hall to headline this
Mexican American Cultural Center
year’s KNBT Americana Music Austin
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Jam on Sun., May 18.
Sponsored by 1st State Bank,
LoneStarMusic.com, Rockin’ R Give Love Give Life Benefit Concert
La Zona Rosa
River Rides and NB Mattress,
Austin
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ture Walt Wilkins, Cody Canada,
9-11
Wade Bowen, Scott Miller,
Taste Addison
Hayes Carll, Stoney LaRue,
Addison Circle Park
Micky & the Motorcars,
Addison
Reckless Kelly, Tom Gillam,
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Zach Walther & the Cronkites
16-18
and the Band of Heathens.
Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival
Tickets are $50 and can be
Galatyn Park
ordered at
Richardson
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ing 830-629-5077.
National Polka Festival
Various Locations
Ennis
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Kevin Fowler heads north of the Red River to
headline the RFT Pre-Float Festival May 30.
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RFT Pre-Float Festival
Washita Hideaway
Davis, Okla.
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Denison Singer-Songwriter Series
Rialto Theater
Denison
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ROBYN
LUDWICK
Too Much Desire
(Freedom)
Kicking off with the arresting “Alright” — arguably the sexiest
Americana paean to lust this side of
Lucinda Williams’ “Right In Time” — this
sophomore set from the kid sister of
Charlie and Bruce Robison lives up to its
title with a vengeance. But Ludwick’s take
on desire is always grounded in hardscrabble, bittersweet reality, delivered in a
voice full of true grit to match. Lines as
loaded as “I got lips that bleed, hunger
and beguile” — and the album has such
gems in spades — pretty much say it all.
RICHARD SKANSE
OLD 97’S
Blame It On Gravity
(New West)
The Old 97’s’ early country punk stuff will always
have its diehard enthusiasts, and 2004’s
atypically mopey Drag It Up did, in retrospect, have its moments. But Blame It on
Gravity stands tall next to 2001’s Satellite
Rides and 1997’s Too Far to Care as one of
the long-running Dallas band’s truly startto-finish perfect statements of purpose.
Bookended by the opening rush of “The
Fool” and the closing gleeful nudge and
wink of “The One” — two songs that capture the 97’s doing everything they do
best at the top of their game — the album
moves from irresistible power-pop hook
to hook at breakneck speed, stopping to
catch its breath just long enough for the
sweet relief of quieter moments like
“Color of a Lonely Heart is Blue.”
RICHARD SKANSE
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Johnny Solinger
(Smith Entertainment)
Dallas-native Solinger, a
seasoned metal head and
current frontman of Skid Row, goes credibly country backed by the cream of
Austin’s players and covers a wide range
of twangy bases with cheeky esprit, but is
best when he rural rocks on “Steel Horse”
and “You Lie.” ROB PATTERSON
ELEVEN HUNDRED
SPRINGS
Country Jam (Palo Duro)
Eleven Hundred Springs
wears country influences
as proudly as frontman Matt Hillyer wears
his cowboy hat, from George Jones to
Johnny Cash to the Texas Tornadoes, but
the band more than does justice to those
cats — and plenty of others — with this
smooth concoction of covers (dig the jumpand-jive of “Rocket 88” and the rockabilly
romp of “V-8 Ford Boogie”) and sweet originals, like “Everytime I Get Close to You”
and “Nobody Told You About the Love.”
You’re gonna want more of this jam, for
sure. LYNNE MARGOLIS
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May 6 T Bone Burnett
May 6 Johnny Solinger
May 6 Eleven Hundred Springs
May 6 Mike McClure Band
May 13 Old 97’s
May 13 The Black Angels
May 13 Back Porch Mary
May 20 Guy Forsyth
May 20 Cory Morrow
May 20 The Band of Heathens
May 20 Tomcat Courtney
May 27 Adam Carroll
May 27 Eliza Gilkyson
May 27 Lisa Loeb
June 3 Mother Truckers
June 3 Pinetop Perkins
June 3 Lockboxx
June 10 Alejandro Escovedo
June 10 Kimmie Rhodes
June 10 Sisters Morales
June 17 Honeybrowne
June 17 Rob Roy Parnell
June 24Reckless Kelly
June 24Alejandro Escovedo
July 1 Los Lonely Boys
July 1 Willie Nelson
July 8 Willie Nelson
& Wynton Marsalis
Aug. 5 Carrie Rodriguez
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Johnny Solinger
Country Jam
did7
Blame It On Gravity
Directions to See a Ghost
Time of the Broken Heart
Calico Girl
Vagrants & Kings
The Band of Heathens
Downsville Blues
Old Town Rock N Roll
Beautiful World
Camp Lisa (children’s album)
Let’s All Go to Bed
Pinetop Perkins and Friends
Drop Shop
Real Animal (vinyl only)
Walls Fall Down
Talking to the River
Mile By Mile
Let’s Start Something
Bulletproof
Real Animal
Forgiven
Stardust (Legacy Ed.)
Two Men with the Blues
Nonesuch
Smith Entertainment
Palo Duro
MikeMcClureBand.com
New West
Light in the Attic
Smith Entertainment
Small & Nimble
Sustain
BandofHeathens.com
Blue Witch
AdamCarroll.com
Red House
Furious Rose
Funzalo
Telarc
Character
Back Porch
Songbird
Luna
Compadre
Blue Rocket
Yep Roc
Back Porch
Epic
Columbia/Legacy
Blue Note
She Ain’t Me
Back Porch
CHAD BOYD BAND
Guy Forsyth gains control again with Calico Girl
Bullit (Self-Released)
Plenty of acts on the Texas scene get by on
boyish charm or redneck bravado, which is
fine when the aim is to keep the Jäger and
beer flowing. But the best songs on Chad
Boyd’s debut hit like straight whiskey; he
brings a realistic orneriness to his work that
makes the usual frat-guy rowdiness seem
downright tame. Boyd’s voice is modest and
plainspoken, but lines like “If lead were gold
then I’d fill your soul/Full of million dollar
holes” keep you listening. ETHAN MESSICK
If the track list of Guy Forsyth’s new studio album Calico Girl seems familiar to longtime fans —
and songs like “Can You Live Without,” “Calico Girl” and Forsyth’s cover of Son House’s “Don’t
You Mind People Grinnin’ in Your Face” certainly should ring some bells — it’s because he originally recorded all but one of the songs on his 1999 album, Can You Live Without. But as he
explains in the new album’s liner notes, things went sour with his old label deal and, unable to
reclaim his masters or obtain copies of the original album to sell at shows, he decided to rerecord the songs with producer and longtime friend Mark Addison. “Rather than try to recreate Dave McMair’s production of the first record, we started from scratch, let all the miles and
scars weigh in, and let this recording be true to who we are now,” Forsyth writes. To celebrate,
Forsyth and band will play a CD release show May 16 at Antone’s in Austin. Opening the show
will be Nathan Singleton and His Sideshow Tragedy, followed by the Bluebonnets — featuring
Austin-born (and now based) Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s fame.
Q&A Johnny Solinger
Johnny Solinger isn’t
your everyday Texas
country artist. For
starters, he’s much
more of a singer — or
as he puts it, an “entertainer” — than a hearton-sleeve, guitarstrumming songwriter.
And then there’s his
day job: screaming his
lungs out as the frontman for Skid Row, whose founding members
recruited the Dallas-raised hard rocker to
replace former singer Sebastian Bach when
the metal band reformed eight years ago.
Since then, Solinger has recorded two
albums with Skid Row and toured the world
sharing bills with the likes of Kiss, Vince Neil
and Def Leppard, but he moved back to
Texas (settling with his wife and two young
children in Buda, just south of Austin) two
years ago, determined to forge a side career
as an equally hell-raising honky-tonker. His
self-titled debut, out May 6 on Smith
Entertainment, has already found a home on
Texas radio via its lead single, “Too Well to
Go to Work,” and he’s primed and ready for
his first official home state show as Johnny
Solinger, country singer, on May 10 at San
Antonio’s Rolling Oaks. The following
Saturday (May 17), he’ll be taking his country
band to Austin’s Rock City Icehouse, which
he last played with Skid Row during the
joint’s grand opening back in February.
When you were fronting your old Dallas
metal band Solinger during the ’90s, were
you hip to Jack Ingram and Pat Green and
the rest of the independent Texas country
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I was unaware of the Texas dudes that were
doing so well. It wasn’t until I started really
researching the scene about five years ago
that I realized how big it was. I was amazed
when Kevin Fowler first came up on my
radar. I was like, “This guy’s doing 200 shows
a year, and he’s not even leaving the state of
Texas. And he’s got his own bus and he sold
200,000 records on his own!” I thought,
man, that would be so cool, to go down to
Texas and start something like that, because
you can do it forever. So I started thinking
about the future: How long am I going to be
going out there and singing [Skid Row’s]
“Youth Gone Wild?” The rest of the guys in
the band are already set for life, so if they
ever get tired of doing it, they’re going to
quit. I don’t see it ending anytime soon, but if
it does, I’ve gotta have a backup plan.
How do the other guys in Skid Row feel
about you doing this?
The band comes together when it’s Skid Row
time, and that’s everybody’s top priority,
because Skid Row is what pays our bills. But
everybody’s got their own things on the side.
And they all know I’m just a redneck — I
mean, they’re a bunch of Jersey guys, so it’s
basically the Beverly Hillbillies’ Jethro
fronting the Sopranos. So they’re supportive,
and they’re accommodating me on scheduling for shows and things like that, which is
probably a pain in their ass, but everybody’s
willing to work on it.
When did you first get the country bug?
As a kid, that’s what my parents and grandparents listened to. I had the Statler Brothers
and the Gatlin Brothers and the Oakridge
Boys shoved down my throat … and I loved it.
I remember falling in love with Willie Nelson’s
music, and Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck
… even the stuff that people don’t admit they
liked, like Kenny Rogers. I liked it all. I’m a
Texas boy. This is where I was raised, and the
Smith Entertainment guys got right away
that [me wanting to do this] is real and genuine. But my way of doing it is going to be little bit different from all the other guys I’ve
been out to see, because I’m not going to
have a guitar — I’m going to front a band,
which is what I’ve always done. And I’m playing “Highway to Hell” at the end of my country show, because I grew up on AC/DC, too!
Do you see any difference between your
Skid Row crowds and the crowds at the
Texas country shows you’ve been to?
It’s all the same. You know, the Skid Row
crowds, they’re nuts — they know all the material, they’re singing everything. And it’s the
same at these country shows. I went out and
saw a song swap in San Marcos at Cheatham
Street Warehouse with Cody Canada and
Stoney LaRue. I did not know any of the
songs, because I’m just not schooled on the
material, but that crowd of 300, they sang
every single word. It was almost like a cult,
and I was probably the only casual fan there.
You call yourself a redneck, so here’s an
easy little test for you: What’s your alltime favorite country record?
I’d have to go with what’s in the player right
now — Hank Sr.’s Greatest Hits. I don’t know
what volume it is, but it’s got 22 songs on it,
and I can’t not listen to that. I don’t cover any
Hank stuff myself — I don’t think I’d be very
good at it — but I love it. I mean, the guy died
at 29 years old, drank himself to death!
That’s classic. RICHARD SKANSE
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George Strait
Dixie Chicks
Dierks Bentley
Miranda Lambert
Gary Allan
Eli Young Band
Willie Nelson
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Jack Ingram
Randy Rogers Band
Pat Green
Kevin Fowler
Shooter Jennings
Roger Creager
Johnny Solinger
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Wade Bowen
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
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Trent Willmon
Cory Morrow
Johnny Cooper
Aaron Watson
Honeybrowne
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6,601
6,409
5,587
5,190
5,024
4,848
Rankings for the MySpace chart are determined by a point system factoring in the
number of profile views, song plays and friends on the artists’ official MySpace pages.
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