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'It's a good year to be Willie' *
With a slew of recent releases and a hit duet on the charts, Willie Nelson is riding high at 70, BRAD WHEELER writes
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Genius: What it is ain't exactly clear *
For those of you who were not born into the generation that dare not speak its name more than once or twice a sentence, Garth Hudson was a brilliant member of a brilliant band called the Band.
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He walked the line *
The legend of Johnny Cash holds sway in truck stops, alt-rock clubs and even among gospel singers, ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN writes
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How the Eagles became the best-selling band of a generation *
Their greatest hits compilation has managed to become the best-selling album of all time in the United States.
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Johnny Cash in hospital *
Johnny Cash's plans to attend the MTV Video Music Awards were scuttled by his hospitalization for an unspecified stomach ailment. He was in stable condition on Thursday.
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Johnny Cash, 71 *
Johnny Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as The Man in Black, has died, according to hospital officials in Nashville, Tenn. He was 71.
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Neil Young vilified by US pundits for antiwar album *
If the snippets Neil Young is posting on his website are any indication, his upcoming album, Living With War, will be a serious musical broadside against the Bush administration and the Iraq war.
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This Crowe can sing *
He's come a long way from his punk-rock roots and bouffant locks, when he called himself Russ Le Roq and headed straight to the bottom of New Zealand's pop charts with I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando. These days, Russell Crowe is creating his own pop-rock character, using the styles and scope of artists such as Neil Finn, Alice Cooper and Johnny Cash.
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Festival Express: All aboard the new rockumentary classic (Lacey review) *** 1/2
Pulled out of archives, garages and more than 30 years of legal limbo, about 70 hours of film have been carefully assembled into what amounts to a new rockumentary classic, Festival Express.
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Nashville without music *
Can someone who detests the twang of country find joy in the genre's capital?
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SonyMusicDirect *
Music...your life? Find whatever your heart desires at SonyDirect.
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Welcome to popsouljazzblooza 2003 *
To grab the star names that draw audiences in, summer festivals are mixing musical genres with abandon, writes BRAD WHEELER
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