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  LEGENDARY BASSIST BOB MOORE TO BE SALUTED IN FEBRUARY AS NEXT NASHVILLE CAT AT THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF ...
Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964.
The Museum’s mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture.
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  Music - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common one in musicology and performance.
Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
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 1983 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1982 in country music, 1983 in music, other events of 1983, 1984 in country music, 1980s in music and the List of years in Country Music
Country Music Television (aka CMT) went on-the-air March 5, while The Nashville Network (TNN) came on two days later.
Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1983_in_country_music   (1344 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1983 in music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
See also: 1983 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 21 - Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top...
1983 Jan 1, Pope John Paul II declared this year to be an extraordinary Holy Year to mark the 1,950th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in year 33.
1983 Feb 13-14, The Americus and Altair fishing boats sank in the Bering Sea and 14 fishermen from Anacortes, Wa., died.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Seven and the Ragged Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common.
In April 1983, the band take a two month working holiday in a chateau in Cannes on the Cote d'Azure in the south of France to write and demo new material.
1983 albums Alex Sadkin is best remembered as a record producer in the early 1980s, but actually got his start as a saxophonist for the Las Olas Brass.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Seven-and-the-Ragged-Tiger   (2458 words)

  
 Browse Subjects - Music
The first commercial recordings of country music were made in Bristol, Tennesse, in the 1920s, and many musical groups and individual recording artists began their careers with performances on local radio stations in the region.
Two audio tapes have information on country music: one tape has information on how to make and play dulcimers, while the other includes old-time country and country and western tunes played by various local artists.
Country Music in the Tri-Cities, an outreach videotape, is available for a 30-day loan from the Archives.
www.etsu.edu /cass/Archives/Subjects/music.asp   (1345 words)

  
 Hillbilly-Music.com - A Century Of Country Music
A Century of Country is a fresh look at America's fastest growing and most enduring form of popular music, the country sound.
From the ballads of Appalachia to the honky-tonk laments of Texas, from the lyrics of the singing cowboys to the breakdowns of bluegrass pickers, from the raw rebellion of the rockabilly acts to the heart songs of the Nashville crooners.
Country music is as old-fashioned as wax recordings and as modern as the Internet.
www.hillbilly-music.com /library/books/index.php?id=1157   (691 words)

  
 Country Music Roots: Hank Snow
It wasn't until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records and he headed to the "Country Music Capital of the World", Nashville, Tennessee, where Hank Snow, the "Singing Ranger" would be invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950.
In 1979, Hank Snow was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame.
Country Music Round Up "I think what makes Mark Brine such a gifted songwriter/storyteller is the fact that he seems to be such an obvious fan of many genres of music.
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 Alabama Music Fan Club
The band went on to win the Academy of Country Music's Artist of the Decade title for the 1980's and became the first group to ever be named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year.
Their acceptance in the country music forever changed the way the country bands were accepted in the country format.
Because of Alabama’s impact on the country music more and more new listeners were being attracted to country.
www.geocities.com /country_musicfanz/Alabama.htm   (446 words)

  
 Country Music Stars Of 1980   (Site not responding. Last check: )
T wenty years of recording some of the finest country music there is, and Reba McEntire...
Country music has had only a handful of Black stars, with Charley Pride, Stoney Edwards and Deford Bailey being the most...
Country Music Association of Australia: CM Awards of Australia
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 Noisetap Music Community - Country
If you follow country music, country music history or the history, art and culture of the American South, sooner or later you're bound to run into the letters, images and unmistakable "look" of Hatch Show Print.
Country music singer and recovering alcoholic Keith Urban knew he was back in Australia when a Qantas flight attendant welcomed him with a bottle of wine.
Country singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against a painter of the same name, claiming that the lesser known Keith Urban's website infringes trademark and cyber-squatting laws.
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 Country Music News Canadian country Music Artists CD's CDs CD Nashville report
Terry Carisse was a six-time recipient of the Canadian Country Music Association’s Male Vocalist Of The Year, dominating the category from 1980-1986, and still holding the record for the most ever wins as the CCMA’s Male Vocalist Of The Year.
Carisse also had the honour of gracing the cover of the first-ever issue of Country Music News (formerly Capital Country News) when he was featured in April, 1980 under the title “The Story Of The Year” which reflected the title of one of his early career hits.
Subscribe to Country Music News; it's packed full of stories and the latest CD reviews, all delivered right to your door every month.
www.countrymusicnews.ca /news.ihtml?step=2&article_id=893   (1122 words)

  
 Country Music
She won three Grammy awards, was named Top New Female Vocalist for 1967 by The Academy Of Country Music and she co-hosted the first CMA Awards Show.
In 1983 Slim Dusty was the first singer to have his voice beamed to earth from space.
He would be on stage for the first part of the show and then he went to sleep in their car for the second half of the show.
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 CANADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION NAMES REGINA AS 2007 HOST CITY FOR CANADA'S COUNTRY MUSIC WEEK AND AWARDS @ ...
NASHVILLE, TN (Aristo Media) - The Canadian Country Music Association has announced that in 2007 Regina, Saskatchewan will be the host city of Country Music Week along with the Canadian Country Music Association Awards.
For 30 years the Canadian Country Music Association has marked each September with Country Music Week, a four day conference and celebration culminating in the Canadian Country Music Association Awards (established in 1983).
Country Music Week is one of the largest music events in Canada each year and has not been held in the city of Regina since 1983.
top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=21909   (252 words)

  
 HoneyHoney's Country Music In Nashville
From preaching to music, in 1925 when radio was still in its infancy, WSM auditioned a weekly program from the Ryman Auditorium.
Their music came to be known as bluegrass from the band's name.
Two-stepping might be more your style, but most people who love country music like to kick up their heels a bit to a catchy tune.
www.geocities.com /bornhoney/music.htm   (1706 words)

  
 Aquarian articles
No musical idiom of the rock and roll language is spared, no facet of daily experience (even such mundane realities as a warm kitchen or Doan's pills) remains unexplored.
It's a miniscule fraction of the music Moore has released on cassette and disc over the years, but on its own it's a worthy sampler of what Moore is about--which is, to borrow one of his song titles, "Everything," put together in ways you likely won't expect.
One of the parameters of Moore's music is the size of his home studio---since it's not a 48-track cavern, the scale remains intimate no matter what form the outcome takes.
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 Booking John Anderson - Book Entertainment, Corporate, Event, Meeting, John Anderson Contact Information
The story of John Anderson and his platinum-plus album, Seminole Wind, is the story of the country music "come-back" of the decade.
Swingin' was not only the Country Music Association's 1983 Song of the year; more recently it was cited by the A.M.O.A. as one of its all-time top-forty jukebox hits--right up there with Hey Jude and other perennial favorites by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, George Jones, and The Rolling Stones.
In 1994 the Academy of Country Music honored him with their "Career Achievement Award." The same year he received the Country Music Association "Album of the Year" for Common Threads: The Songs of the Eagles.
www.grabow.biz /printable_pages/JohnAnderson.htm   (385 words)

  
 CBC Saskatchewan - Regina to host Country Music Week in 2007   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canada's annual celebration of country music will be heading to Saskatchewan in 2007, with Regina announced as the host city for Country Music Week.
Organizers of the four-day celebration, which culminates with the Canadian Country Music Awards, announced Thursday that Regina had been selected as host after submitting a "very compelling" bid for the premiere country music event.
This year's event will run Sept. 8-11 in Saint John, N.B. Country Music Week and the Canadian Country Music Awards are organized by the Canadian Country Music Association, a non-profit trade group that has promoted the musical genre across the country for the past 30 years.
www.cbc.ca /sask/story/country-music060317.html   (233 words)

  
 The Year in Music-1983
By 1983 the "New Music" of the Eighties -- a blend of rock, soul, disco and reggae wrapped in synth -- had become well-established, and record sales were up after a long slump that had started in the late 1970s.
In 1983 a profound change in country music began to take root in Nashville.
Many felt that country music had lost its way, and neo-traditionalists like Strait and those who followed -- Randy Travis, Clint Black, Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson -- would show it how to get back to basics with a sound that stemmed from honky tonk and western swing traditions.
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 Country Music Research Guide - Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives - BGSULibraries
Finally, the contributions of women in the development of country music.
Country: The Music and the Musicians: Pickers, Slickers, Cheatin' Hearts, and Superstars.
The Music Index is available online (1978-present) or in print (1949-present).
www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/music/country1.html   (226 words)

  
 Directory of Endowments & Scholarships: Office of Development: School of Music: Indiana University
After graduation from high school, she journeyed to Bloomington where she studied music as a Singing Hoosier and earned a degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University.
Fricke's talent won her a recording contract with Columbia Records to create albums of mixed pop and country music.
She has since won numerous awards, including Female Vocalist of the year for two consecutive years (1982, 1983) from the Country Music Association and several Grammy nominations.
www.music.indiana.edu /development/scholarships/fricke.shtml   (207 words)

  
 Country Band Anchorage, AK - Anchorage, Alaska Country Music, Anchorage Country Bands
Most Anchorage country western music bands on Gigmasters have multiple audio and video samples available on their Gigmasters press kits.
Mike Breen and Back at the Ranch are a 5 piece country band that play a wide variety of country, country rock and classic rock.
With our mix of acoustic bluegrass instrumentals to classic country and rock-n-roll we are able to accommodate different musical requirements be it background only to a full out country/variety dance or show.
www.gigmasters.com /Country/CountryBand_Anchorage_AK.asp   (1003 words)

  
 Timeline California 1962 to 1983   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1983 Apr 4, Leo J. Trombatore was appointed by George Deukmejian to serve as the chief of Caltrans and served from this day to Dec 30, 1987.
1983 Cheryl Sellers (24) was convicted of 1st degree murder for the shooting of her husband, who had beaten and abused her for the 4 years of their marriage.
1983 Dianne and Jim Clapp bought 500 acres in Shasta County that became the nucleus for a wild horse sanctuary.
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 Country Concert '04
Loramie, Ohio - Country Concert at Hickory Hill Lakes is preparing for the 24th annual music and camping festival to be held July 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th.
The event takes place on a 500 acre RV park in Shelby County, Ohio and features live country music, live bull riding, the USA Karaoke Finals, camping, shopping, and plenty of good food and drink.
Blue County is one of the newcomer acts at Country Concert.
www.breathittonline.com /entertainment/countryconcert.html   (605 words)

  
 Country Music
The encyclopedia covers a variety of related genres: country rock, bluegrass, rockabilly, country gospel, honky-tonk, western swing, and cowboy and cowgirl artists.
As a vice president with a major music publishing company, Grelun Landon worked with many of the top stars of the Grand Ole Opry and later served as president of the Country Music Foundation (which operates the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville).
For many years he handled promotional activities for Elvis Presley (whose gold Cadillac with Elvis’ initial gold records mounted on its interior walls was stored for several years in Landon’s garage before being placed on exhibition at the Nashville Hall of Fame).
www.folkandblues.com /CountryMusic2.htm   (259 words)

  
 Music In Scotland - A gateway to Scottish music
This Scottish music site is dedicated to promoting music and musicians with a Celtic connection to a world-wide audience.
The 2007 CD features music from the Massed Pipes and Drums, the Middlesex County Volunteer Fifes and Drums, the Mounted Band of the Blues and Royals and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra.
Possibly the least well-known of the musical Powrie family, but a brilliant musician none-the-less. These homemade tape recordings of Bill have been lovingly restored, and the end result is 23 tracks of astonishingly good music.
www.musicinscotland.com   (3113 words)

  
 1983 in UNCLESKIPPY'S MALL OF MEMORABILIA & COLLECTIBLES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 1984 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1983 in country music, 1984 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in country music, 1980s in music and the List of years in Country Music
June 22 - The movie Rhinestone, starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, is released to universally negative reviews.
July 28 - With his No. 1 hit "Angel in Disguise," Earl Thomas Conley becomes the first artist in any genre to have four Billboard magazine chart-topping songs from the same album.
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 George Strait 1983 Houston Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But I think there may be a trend in country music right now in going back to more traditional type songs.
Ol' George plays it straight, that good, hard, swingin country and western that was country before country was cool, before it lost its grit and twang and spilled its banks into the pop mainstream.
But one of the Generals on the base was forming a country band and George went for it.
www.noplacebuttexas.com /george/Archives/george83.htm   (1109 words)

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