Life has been a whirlwind for Kree Harrison since her runner-up run on season 12 of American Idol – but that's just how she likes it.
Harrison first moved to Nashville to pursue a music career when she was just 10 years old.
"My whole family uprooted from a small town in Texas," Harrison tells People exclusively. "I was trying to figure it out in Nashville. I had never sang in a studio before or been part of the Nashville community. It took my breath away, how much I felt at home in a big city."
Harrison's father passed away just a year...
Harrison first moved to Nashville to pursue a music career when she was just 10 years old.
"My whole family uprooted from a small town in Texas," Harrison tells People exclusively. "I was trying to figure it out in Nashville. I had never sang in a studio before or been part of the Nashville community. It took my breath away, how much I felt at home in a big city."
Harrison's father passed away just a year...
- 6/2/2016
- by Mollie Cahillane, @MollieCahillane
- People.com - TV Watch
Life has been a whirlwind for Kree Harrison since her runner-up run on season 12 of American Idol - but that's just how she likes it. Harrison first moved to Nashville to pursue a music career when she was just 10 years old. "My whole family uprooted from a small town in Texas," Harrison tells People exclusively. "I was trying to figure it out in Nashville. I had never sang in a studio before or been part of the Nashville community. It took my breath away, how much I felt at home in a big city." Harrison's father passed away just a...
- 6/2/2016
- by Mollie Cahillane, @MollieCahillane
- PEOPLE.com
Legendary country star Merle Haggard died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, a coincidence that wouldn't seem out of place in one of Haggard's many indispensable contributions to country music. But Haggard didn't just pen hits like "Okie from Muskogee," "Sing Me Back Home" and "Mama Tried." He fundamentally altered the course of country music on a granular level, introducing a sonic blueprint that would come to be known as "the Bakersfield sound," a rough-hewn counterpoint to the sweeter sounds coming out of Nashville at the same time. Born in Bakersfield, California, to Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, Haggard spent large...
- 4/6/2016
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- PEOPLE.com
"Justified" has come to an end. Yesterday, I published some overall thoughts on the series. Tonight, I have an interview with Graham Yost about who lived, who died, and why, and I have a review of the series finale coming up just as soon as we identify the worst possible ice cream flavor... "We dug coal together." -Boyd Given all the plates left spinning at the end of "Collateral," Yost — who wrote the finale with longtime "Justified" writers Fred Golan, Dave Andron and Benjamin Cavell — could have very easily gone to FX and requested 90 minutes or more in order to properly wrap things up. Instead, "The Promise" clocks in at only a few minutes longer than average (there was at least one episode last season that was longer than this), and it all but concludes the season's many intersecting plotlines by the halfway point, even putting on "You'll Never Leave...
- 4/15/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
In HitFix's new feature "Waxing Episodic," we reflect on an episode of television we'll never forget. FX's "Justified" is coming to an end next week. Let's all respectfully tip our morally color-coded cowboy hat to Graham Yost and company's often superb Elmore Leonard adaptation, which has dispensed heaping servings of badassery on a consistent basis, especially if you pretend Season 5 just never happened. But just as Season 5 is accepted by anybody sensible as the "Justified" nadir, I'm unprepared to accept the contention that any "Justified" season other than the second constitutes its peak. "Justified" has reliably hovered in the second half of my Top 20 for all of its non-Season 5 seasons, but Season 2 was the only one to crack my Top 10, finishing at No.7, which seemed insufficiently rapturous to me in retrospect, but I looked back at the six shows that finished above and you're talking about the final "Friday Night Lights" season,...
- 4/10/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Which music stars went home with awards at the 2014 Grammy Awards? Find out with this full winners list.
Winners in each category are bolded.
Record of the Year
"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons
"Royals" -- Lorde
"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars
"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell
Album of the year
"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles
"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk
"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar
"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
"Red" -- Taylor Swift
Song of the year
"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)
"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)
"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)
"Royals...
Winners in each category are bolded.
Record of the Year
"Get Lucky" -- Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
"Radioactive" -- Imagine Dragons
"Royals" -- Lorde
"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Bruno Mars
"Blurred Lines" -- Robin Thick feat. T.I. and Pharrell
Album of the year
"The Blessed Unrest" -- Sara Bareilles
"Random Access Memories" -- Daft Punk
"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" -- Kendrick Lamar
"The Heist" -- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
"Red" -- Taylor Swift
Song of the year
"Just Give Me a Reason" -- Jeff Bhasker, Pink and Nate Ruess (Pink feat. Nate Ruess)
"Locked Out of Heaven" -- Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Bruno Mars (Bruno Mars)
"Roar" -- Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry and Henry Walter (Katy Perry)
"Royals...
- 1/26/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The third track on one of my favorite rock records of the last decade, Okkervil River’s The Stage Names, is called “A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene.” Without context, its lyric is a bit of a tough nut to crack. Will Sheff sings about events unfolding on a TV screen in the first verse, recaps a dream in the second, and seems to outline the narrator’s innermost wishes in the third. What’s not immediately apparent is that the first verse outlines scenes from two completely different TV shows – scenes that happened to be scored by Okkervil River songs. The first half of the verse refers to “It Ends With a Fall” (from Down the River of Golden Dreams) and its use on the reality series Breaking Bonaduce. (I don’t have that clip handy.) The second half, and probably the more illustrative of the two in any case,...
- 6/29/2013
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The FX show Justified has come to be regarded as one of the best dramas on television today, if not of all time. One staple of the show has been the song “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” starting up over the closing moments of the season, with the ending of Season 3 being a notable exception. The season 4 finale of the show revisited this tradition, with a third artist’s voice rising as the season drew to a close; with Darrell Scott’s version bookending the first season, and Brad Paisley’s version playing over the final scene of the second, the honours this time around went to Dave Alvin, who manages to infuse the song with a distinct energy that sets it apart from the previous versions used on the show. The song can be heard below in its entirety.
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- 4/5/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
By Chris Talbott, The Associated Press
Cumberland Caverns, Tenn. — In decades of ceaseless touring, bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley thought he'd played in every venue imaginable.
Then he got an invite to play a "Bluegrass Underground" show earlier this year.
"It's a good day to be here," Stanley told a crowd of several hundred fans, some of whom hung from rocky ledges around the rim of the Volcano Room 333 feet below ground. "I hope we can get out. I've been playing for 65 years now, and I've never played in a cave."
In a few short years, "Bluegrass Underground" and the Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns near McMinnville, Tenn., have become a hot destination for top bluegrassers and acoustic musicians around the country. And a new weekly show on PBS should help raise the profile of one of the nation's most unique concert spaces even more.
The show kicked off in September and acts like Ricky Skaggs,...
Cumberland Caverns, Tenn. — In decades of ceaseless touring, bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley thought he'd played in every venue imaginable.
Then he got an invite to play a "Bluegrass Underground" show earlier this year.
"It's a good day to be here," Stanley told a crowd of several hundred fans, some of whom hung from rocky ledges around the rim of the Volcano Room 333 feet below ground. "I hope we can get out. I've been playing for 65 years now, and I've never played in a cave."
In a few short years, "Bluegrass Underground" and the Volcano Room at Cumberland Caverns near McMinnville, Tenn., have become a hot destination for top bluegrassers and acoustic musicians around the country. And a new weekly show on PBS should help raise the profile of one of the nation's most unique concert spaces even more.
The show kicked off in September and acts like Ricky Skaggs,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Gazelle Emami
- Huffington Post
The 2011 Grammy Awards were big for the ladies -- country trio Lady Antebellum took home the most awards with five, while Lady Gaga earned three. Eminem had two honors, but Alternative Rock group Arcade Fire won the coveted Album of the Year.
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
- 2/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Robert Plant has announced plans to hit the road for a 12-date North American tour starting April 8th in Louisville, Ky. The tour will be in support of the release of the rock icon.s latest album, .Band of Joy. - which Rolling Stone magazine in its four-star review called "sweet, elegant folk that still swings like Satan's barn door." The touring band is the same that made the record and that is currently touring the States: Patty Griffin, vocals; Darrell Scott, multi-nstrumentalist/vocals; Byron House, bass/vocals; Marco Giovino, drums and percussion/vocals, and co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals. .Band of Joy. has been nominated for two Grammy Awards ("Best Americana Album" and "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance"), and appeared...
- 1/31/2011
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
Robert Plant will return to the road in April to continue to support his fine September album, “Band of Joy.” The road band is the same collection of musicians who appeared on the album: Patty Griffin, vocals; Darrell Scott, multi-instrumentalist/vocals; Byron House, bass/vocals; Marco Giovino, drums and percussion/vocals, and co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals. [More after the jump...] Plant is up for two Grammys: Best Americana Album and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. Feel free to download the song “Central Two-o-Nine” from the embed below. It’s a little gift from Plant to you. Below that are the new tour dates. The tour...
- 1/18/2011
- Hitfix
Robert Plant has confirmed a 12 city North American tour. Beginning in July, this 1st leg of shows which will be followed by further dates in the fall will preview material from a new album. Featuring a diverse group of musicians - Patty Griffin, vocals, Darrell Scott, multi instrumentalist/vocals, Byron House, Bass/Vocals, Marco Giovino, drums and percussion/vocals, including co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals. The album is set for release on Rounder, late summer/early fall.
- 7/14/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Rock icon Robert Plant returns with the studio album Band of Joy (Rounder Records) . the singer.s first release since 2007.s six time Grammy Award winning .Raising Sand.. The new album was recorded in Nashville and will be released on September 14th. .Band of Joy. was co-produced by Plant and Nashville legend and guitarist Buddy Miller. It features multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott (who provides the mandolin, guitar, accordion, pedal, lap steel and banjo lines), country singer-songwriter Patty Griffin (who adds the main vocal foils to Plant's lead parts), Byron House (bass), and Marco Giovino (percussion). The album features new interpretations of songs from a wide range of sources. Opening with a cover of Los Lobos's 'Angel Dance', the album encompasses...
- 6/14/2010
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
Robert Plant will release “Band of Joy” on Sept. 14. The set is Plant’s interpretation of a number of tunes ranging from Los Lobos’ Angel Dance to English/Appalachian folk ballad “Cindy I’ll Marry You Some Day.” He’s backed by guitarist Buddy Miller, with whom Plant produced the set, multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, singer/songwriter Patty Griffin and bassist Byron House. As we previously reported, Plant will take this outfit on the road starting July 13. This marks his first album since the Grammy-winning “Raising Sand,” his collaboration with Alison Krauss. A follow-up to that album was shelved. 1. Angel Dance 2. House of...
- 6/11/2010
- Hitfix
Robert Plant starts a U.S. tour on July 13. Sure, it’s no Led Zeppelin, but he’s joined by an amazing group, dubbed the Band of Joy, that includes vocalist Patty Griffin, multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, and guitarist Buddy Miller. Plant historians will appreciate the band’s moniker as a nod to the group Plant and Zeppelin drummer John Bonham belonged to pre-Led Zep. He’s recording the new album with the above-named musicians, but, so far, no release date has been set. The new album, whenever it comes out, will be Plant’s first since his multi-Grammy winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, “Raising Sand.” The two...
- 3/29/2010
- Hitfix
Darrell Scott is a hit-songwriter, an A-List musician and acclaimed independent singer-songwriter who's mixing a new album to be released later this year. The last thing he needed was a new job. Or did he? In a phone chat from Nashville, Darrell Scott described his approach to work, his newest song, and the unexpected call to work he answered. Successful musical artist sounds like a dream career. But the work of it involves a lot of not-so-dreamy things. Your Solopreneur/CEO-Self has to woo and field requests, earn cash, pay the bills. Your Professional Performer-Self travels for days to play for hours. And then, there's the creative part of you. To be a songwriter, Scott says, "is to be an observer." Observation is the art of taking things in. But for years, he'd been working in a super out-going way. As an independent businessman,...
- 9/18/2009
- by Sharon Glassman
- Huffington Post
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