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Articles by Rick Kelly
August 13, 2007
On a recent Saturday afternoon in Nashville, a diverse throng packed the narrow aisles and spilled outside through the open doors of Grimey's record store. Twenty-something hipsters pressed against bespectacled grandmothers; veterans from Music City's Country establishment stood alongside Nashville ...
August 31, 2006
Jessi Colter was born Miriam Johnson in Phoenix, Ariz., into a devout Pentecostal family. Her mother took it as "a God-given fact" that her baby would be a musician, and Mrs. Johnson was absolutely correct. Young Miriam started taking piano lessons at age 5, and by 11, she had begun to write songs. ...
May 23, 2006
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the iconoclastic group of 1970s Country artists who were loosely collected under the banner of the Outlaw Movement. Current artists release songs that name-check the great artists of that era including Big & Rich's "Rollin'," CMA Female Vocalist of...
January 17, 2006
Bluegrass music has undergone a startling transformation in the past two decades, from obscure niche music to big business, and from cloddish stereotypes to recognition as the training ground for some of the greatest musicians of our time.
While the music echoes the ancient sounds of Appalachia...