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Six Hours At Pedernales
''Six Hours at Pedernales'' is a studio album by the country singer Willie Nelson and Step One Records co-founder Curtis Potter. Critical reception ''Texas Monthly'' wrote: "Unfortunately, it's full of slick swing, fat synths, flabby snare drums, Potter's Robert Goulet–style crooning ... and there’s no sign of elson's guitarTrigger." Track listing #"Nothing's Changed, Nothing's New" (Ray Pennington) - 3:46 #"Chase the Moon" (Sharon Pennington, Jesse Shofner) - 2:27 #"Are You Sure" ( Buddy Emmons, Willie Nelson) - 2:27 #"The Party's Over" (Willie Nelson) - 2:26 #"We're Not Talking Anymore" (Mel Holt) - 2:34 #"Turn Me Loose & Let Me Swing" (Ray Pennington) - 2:51 #"Once You're Past the Blues" (Mel Holt) - 3:01 #"It Won't Be Easy" (Don Silvers) - 3:52 #"Stray Cats, Cowboys, & Girls of the Night" (Jesse Shofner) - 2:43 #"The Best Worst Thing" (Ray Pennington) - 3:50 #"It Should Be Easier Now" (Willie Nelson) - 3:20 #"My Own Peculiar Way" (Willie Nelson) - 2:54 Personnel *Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country musician. The critical success of the album ''Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of ''Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and '' Stardust'' (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana. Born during the Great Depression and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the U.S. Air Force but was later discharged d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Step One Records
Step One Records was an independent American record label established in February 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. The label was founded by singer-songwriter and producer Ray Pennington with Curtis Potter, the former of whom had produced for Waylon Jennings. At the time of the label's foundation, it was one of the few independent country music labels to have significant chart success, most notably in 1991, when the label released Clinton Gregory's "(If It Weren't for Country Music) I'd Go Crazy", the only independently released single on the '' Billboard'' country charts at the time of its release. The label lasted into the mid 1990s, having more visibility with Western Flyer's " Cherokee Highway" and "What Will You Do With M-E?". Other artists signed to the label included Ashley Evans, The Geezinslaws, Ray Price, Faron Young, and Pennington himself. The label closed in 1998 and the catalog is owned by Gusto Music. Roster *Matt Benson *Sheryl Brewer *Don Cox * Buddy Emmons *Dawnet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Pennington
Ramon Daniel Pennington (December 22, 1933October 7, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known for writing the song "I'm a Ramblin' Man", and for founding the independent Step One Records label. Career Pennington first performed in a western swing band called the Western Rhythm Boys, which performed in Ohio. In 1958, he signed with King Records and released " Three Hearts in a Tangle" under the name Ray Starr. However, Pennington was dissatisfied with the recording, so he asked that it be withdrawn as a single. Pennington then took up record producer and artists and repertoire jobs at the label, including a production credit on Hawkshaw Hawkins' final album, ''Lonesome 7-7203'', one of the first country albums to feature both black and white session musicians. He also produced for The Stanley Brothers and Reno and Smiley, also playing drums for the latter. Roy Drusky covered "Three Hearts in a Tangle", taking his rendition to numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Becomes You (album)
''Moonlight Becomes You'' is the 41st studio album by Country music, country singer Willie Nelson. The title track was nominated for a Grammy. Track listing #"December Day" (Willie Nelson) - 2:19 #"Moonlight Becomes You (song), Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke (lyricist), Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:51 #"Afraid" (Fred Rose (songwriter), Fred Rose) - 2:35 #"The Heart of a Clown" (Steve Nelson (songwriter), Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins, Jack Rollins, Francis Kane (songwriter), Francis Kane) - 3:45 #"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept, Sam Stept) - 2:05 #"Everywhere You Go" (Larry Shay, Mark Fisher (songwriter), Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin) - 3:35 #"Have I Stayed Away Too Long" (Frank Loesser) - 4:07 #"Sentimental Journey (song), Sentimental Journey" (Bud Green, Les Brown (bandleader), Les Brown, Ben Homer) - 3:14 #"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Gene Lockhart, Ernest Seitz) - 2:20 #"You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healing Hands Of Time
''Healing Hands of Time'' is the 42nd studio album by country singer Willie Nelson. Track listing All tracks composed by Willie Nelson, except where indicated. #"Funny How Time Slips Away" - 5:30 #"Crazy" - 3:30 #"Night Life" (Paul Buskirk, Walter Breeland, Nelson) - 3:56 #"Healing Hands of Time" - 3:45 #"(How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again" - 4:14 #"All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 2:51 #" Oh, What It Seemed to Be" (Bennie Benjamin, Frankie Carle, George David Weiss) - 3:21 #"If I Had My Way" (James Kendis, Lou Klein) - 3:23 #" I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) - 3:02 #"There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone" - 4:08 Personnel *Willie Nelson - guitar, vocals *Eddie Bayers - drums *Oscar Brashear - trumpet *Rosemary Butler - vocals * David Campbell - arranger, conductor *Valerie Carter - vocals *John Clark - flute *Jonathan Clark - flute, horn, oboe *Craig Doerge - piano *Doug Haywood - vocals *Suzie Katayama - orchestra manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music
''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin. It is the "modern man's" equivalent of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music'', which Larkin describes in less than flattering terms.''The Times'', ''The Knowledge'', Christmas edition, 22 December 2007- 4 January 2008. It was described by ''The Times'' as "the standard against which all others must be judged". History of the encyclopedia Larkin believed that rock music and popular music were at least as significant historically as classical music, and as such, should be given definitive treatment and properly documented. ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is the result. In 1989, Larkin sold his half of the publishing company Scorpion Books to finance his ambition to publish an encyclopedia of popular music. Aided by a team of initially 70 contributors, he set about compiling the data in a pre-internet age, "relying instead on information gleaned from music magazines, individual expertise a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Monthly
''Texas Monthly'' (stylized as ''TexasMonthly'') is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. ''Texas Monthly'' was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy and has been published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. since 1998 and is now owned by Enterprise Products Co. ''Texas Monthly'' chronicles life in contemporary Texas, writing on politics, the environment, industry, and education. The magazine also covers leisure topics such as music, art, dining, and travel. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA). In 2019, ''Texas Monthly'' was purchased by billionaire Randa Williams. In 2021, ''Texas Monthly'' acquired ''Texas Country Reporter''. Circulation ''Texas Monthly'' has a paid circulation of 300,000 and it has a monthly readership of 2.5 million people—one out of seven Texan adults. Its audience comprises a roughly equal number of men and women, most of whom are between the ages of 30 and 55. Subject matter ''Texas Monthly'' takes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Emmons
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price (musician), Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles. Emmons made significant innovations to the steel guitar, adding two additional strings and an additional pedal, changes which have been adopted as standard in the modern-day instrument. His name is on a US patent for a mechanism to raise and lower the pitch of a string on a steel guitar and retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Mason
Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American, Nashville, Tennessee-based recording studio guitarist and songwriter, performing primarily country music. Guitar World Magazine listed him as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". Discovered and mentored by Chet Atkins, Mason has been named "Guitarist of the Year" 12 times by the Academy of Country Music and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter.> He is a Grammy Award winner (2008) and a two-time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year. A line of "Brent Mason" guitar models has been marketed by two different guitar manufacturers. The "Stories Collection Brent Mason Telecaster" was launched August 11, 2020. Biography Brent Mason was born on July 13, 1959, in Van Wert, Ohio. At the age of five years, he taught himself to play guitar by ear. After graduating from high school, he moved to N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
