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John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, spent years playing jam sessions at Nashville bars and at fairs across the country before they landed a record deal.
He didn't have a show like NBC's Nashville Star to give his career an instant boost. (09/06)
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Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
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Hiplife artiste Bice Osei-Kuffour aka Obour has urged all Ghanaians to stop viewing musicians as mere entertainers, but rather as social activists who ...
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The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
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There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ...
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How To Do Business In China, China CEO, The New Chinese Consumer... my shelves here in Beijing are stacked full of such books, all trying to throw some ...
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Improbable Frequency, the musical by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter, is halfway through a country tour at the moment and opens in the Pavilion Theatre, ...
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Wired thinks that vinyl is about to "re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary" thanks to the "uniformly optimistic picture of the ...
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is proving you can boogie and finance at the same time, buying the 1976 Trammps hit "Disco Inferno" and the ...
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The singer picked up video of the year and female video of the year for her revenge anthem Before He Cheats. Director Roman White also won a prize for ...
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Holy biscuits and gravy! Country music sensation Carrie Underwood's MySpace page has been hacked! One of our staffers, a huge Underwood fan, has been ...
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One month after iTunes Plus introduced the country to unprotected EMI downloads, there is some proof that the change has been beneficial to EMI's digital ...
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SIR PAUL McCARTNEY suffered a scare at his country estate in England after a fan crashed a speeding car through entrance gates on Friday (30MAR07).
The ...
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You can add another jewel to his crown. The King of Country Music has received his 32nd platinum album certification for It Just Comes Natural, which was ...
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Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing may be the No. 1 record in the country this week, but were her sales numbers inflated by listeners' desire to hear ...
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The children of a hit country music songwriter accuse their evangelist aunt of promising to use her healing powers to cure his cancer and then stealing ...
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Canada has a proud claim: it's the only country in the world other than the United States where Elvis performed in concert. In the spring and summer of ...
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Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ...
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For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
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Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
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While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ...
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Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
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It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ...
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Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
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It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
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No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ...
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Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
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I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ...
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Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ...
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The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
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The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ...
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Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ...
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It's my favorite show! I love it!” says 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, speaking of Sex and the City over spinach-artichoke dip in a dingy Toluca Lake restaurant ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ...
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Showbiz, they say, is 90 per cent business and 10 per cent show?. But there is no denying the fact that without the 10 per cent show there is no business ...
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Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ...
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It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ...
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Radiohead_social As their former label readies a greatest hits compilation to showcase their past, Radiohead continue to forge an innovative path into ...
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Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition devoted to the style and fashion of Kylie Minogue is the most popular show in the museum's history before ...
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If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ...
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Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ...
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For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
More
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
More
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ...
More
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ...
More
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ...
More
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
More
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ...
More
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ...
More
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ...
More
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ...
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It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ...
More
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ...
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Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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