From old country roots, a new voice
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Bradley Walker is being called one of the best new singers to hit Nashville.
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Porter Wagoner was a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton.
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Lee Ann Womack's new album is strikingly handsome, with tunes so sweet you might almost miss the unexpectedly bleak lyrics.
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When Alan Jackson approached bluegrass star Alison Krauss about producing his next record, he was thinking of a rolling cascade of banjo and fiddle behind his laid-back vocals.
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Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city.
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Country Hall of Famer Merle  Haggard&#39;s four-decade career veers in a new direction of  American music with the upcoming release of &quot;The Bluegrass  Sessions.&quot;
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He tuned his excellent voice to become not just an uncanny imitation of Bobby Darin but a warm and memorable instrument in its own right.
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At the ripe old age of 64, Britain's "Peter Pan of Pop" has gone country.
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At a time when much of the mainstream music business is desperately trying to connect with consumers and sell albums, the bluegrass music community has seen its fortunes rise.
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Unlikely but not unprecedented in country music, Kenny Chesney's "Be as You Are," to be released Monday, contains 12 songs about life in the Caribbean.
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Emily Newsomâs perpetual-motion harp playing provides settings that encompass madrigals, Appalachian ballads and African griot songs, and her voice can sound piercing or intimate.
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Texas country singer Rick Trevino gently plucks the strings of his guitar as he sings an old Mexican folk song his father used to play for him when he was a boy.
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After a year and a half away from the spotlight, Clay Aiken returns with an edgy new look, a far-from-edgy new album and a newly secure sense of self.
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It says something for Monteverdiâs powerful presence that 400 years of shifting musical standards have not softened his voice.
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George Jones' 50th anniversary in country music will be celebrated with a new three-CD set and a PBS-TV special spotlighting the artistry that has made him a country music icon.
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A decade ago Paula Westâs dark, clotted vocal sound was her main calling card. Today the power of that sound is matched by a probing musical intelligence.
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Singer Jessica Simpson is planning to get back to her Texan roots, says her father. She has bought a new cowboy hat and is planning to do a country record.