15 January 2018

Country Music Hall of Fame announces 'Outlaws & Armadillos: Country and the Roaring '70s' exhibit

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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is bringing the flavour of 70’s Country music to the public this May, with an exhibition that will chronicle the life and times of the period’s most renowned country musicians. ‘Outlaws & Armadillos: Country and the Roaring ’70s’ will open on the 45th anniversary of seminal outlaw releases, such as Willie Nelson’s Shotgun Willie, WaylonJennings’ Honky Tonk Heroes, Jerry Jeff Walker’s ¡Viva Terlingua! and Billy Joe Shaver’s Old Five and Dimers Like Me.   The exhibit opens on May 25th 2018 – February 14th, 2021 and will blend visual art, film and historical footage, with interviews and concert footage. Head to the website for tickets https://countrymusichalloffame.org

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Fans remember Cash at Folsom Prison

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Fans of Johnny Cash are remembering the concert he recorded five decades ago performing before an audience of inmates within one of America’s harshest prisons, reports Al Jazeera. A report from journalist Tom Ackerman, reminds audiences that more than 1,000 prisoners and inmates watched the performance at maximum security facility, Folsom Prison, in northern California and highlighted the harsh conditions of inmates. Three million copies of the album recorded there were sold, boosting Cash’s career. Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”, written in 1955, served as his first big hit. Cash himself spent time in prison for petty offences and much of his music is inspired by the experience. In the early 1970s, Cash pushed for prison reform, calling for awareness on minors in jail and focusing on rehabilitating inmates. Folsom Prison, as part of a California prison program, now provides training in music, painting and other creative pursuits – testament to Cash’s lasting impact on the music world.

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Upcoming country star hitches on to the Christmas bandwagon

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  Sarah Darling WINTER WONDERLAND Self released Clearly a rising star, Sarah Darling has built up a significant fan base in the UK with her gentle style of country music and her three albums have all been well received. Her single ‘Home to Me’ spawned moderate success in the US country charts and now she’s decided to indulge herself with a Christmas album. She is blessed with sublime vocals and the production can’t be faulted with Micah Hulscher’s piano prominent throughout. At the end of the day though, WINTER WONDERLAND is just another Christmas album; and it’s pure easy listening, not country. Songs like ‘White Christmas’, Silent Night’, ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’, Winter Wonderland’ and ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ are beautifully delivered but only encourage comparison with the plethora of similar offerings which inevitably appear over and over again at this festive time of year. No doubt her UK fans will have snapped up copies of the album during her recent tour and they would not have been disappointed. The album would make excellent background music whilst tucking into the turkey and plum pudding but then so would many, many others. John Roffey                                                                                       www.sarahdarling.com

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