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This Week in Pop Culture Roundup (Nov. 12, 2011)
Maybe this week you were distracted with an overload of stories about Herman Cain’s sexual harassment accusers, concerns about whether Justin Bieber is going to be a father, or the firing of Penn State...
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This Week in Pop Culture Roundup (4 Dec. 2011 Edition)
In case you have been preoccupied having seizures from watching The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 — or you have been preparing to suspend you campaign for president — or if you were busy...
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Devil’s Right Hand Arrest in New York City
Recently, a woman from Tennessee was arrested for carrying a licensed gun in New York City. The case has sparked some uproar because of the unusual facts. The woman, Meredith Graves, apparently was...
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“Bird on a Wire” and the Return of the Bald Eagle
Last year, along with John Fulbright’s cover of Steve Earle’s “Me and the Eagle,” we posted a live feed of a bald eagle and its eaglets in a nest in Iowa. Well, those babies have flown off, but the...
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Seven Spanish Angels: Happy Birthday Willie
Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas on April 30, 1933. In 2012 a statute of Willie was unveiled in Austin, but instead of choosing his birthday, organizers chose the appropriate date of April 20...
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Tribute to Guy Clark CD is “Stuff That Works”
One of my favorite recent CD purchases is This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (2011), which I have had on repeat play since I got it in December. This One’s for Him is a solid 2-CD collection...
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Andrew Combs Need Not Be A “Worried Man” (CD Review)
I do not quite get the album art on Worried Man (2012), the debut full-length CD by Andrew Combs. Is he cold? Is it supposed to be a picture of a “Worried Man”? I do not think the album cover...
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Three Unusual (But Awesome) Coldplay Covers
Songs by Coldplay often seem ripe for reinterpretation despite the fact that lead vocalist Chris Martin does have a great voice. But his voice is so distinctive that sometimes hearing someone else...
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80 Years of Willie: From Opry Singer to Outlaw to Wizard
Eighty years ago this week, Willie Hugh Nelson was born on April 30, 1933 in Abbott, Texas. Nelson is still going strong making music, and he using his annual birthday concert to benefit the West,...
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Tompall Glaser RIP
Country outlaw Tompall Glaser passed away this week. Glaser had a distinguished career, performing with his brothers and running a publishing company. But most of us know him for his work on the first...
View ArticleHighwaymen Reunite at Grammys (Sort Of)
Sunday night the 56th Annual Grammy Awards had various moments, including what was billed as a reunion of The Highwaymen. The two surviving members of the supergroup — Willie Nelson and Kris...
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Happy Birthday Willie Nelson, A Hero of This Country
In what has become an annual tradition on Chimesfreedom, we wish a happy birthday this week to Willie Nelson, who was born on April 30, 1933 in Abbott, Texas. One of his recordings I have been...
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Willie Nelson’s New Video for “The Wall”
Willie Nelson will release his first album since his duets CD To All The Girls. . . (2014) with Band of Brothers (2014). Legacy Records will release the new Nelson album that features fourteen tracks....
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Sebastian Bach Channels Willie Nelson
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach showed he can be a little country when he turned into Willie Nelson for the latest episode of ABC’s Sing Your Face Off. Bach walks onstage dressed as Nelson,...
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Billy Joe Shaver Knows It Is “Hard to Be an Outlaw”
Billy Joe Shaver will release his first studio album in six years on August 5, Long in the Tooth. The album, to be released on Lightning Rod Records, features the 74-year-old Shaver performing a duet...
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Willie Nelson Does a Card Trick
We already knew that Willie Nelson is full of magic, but this week he released a video of himself doing a card trick. It is a long trick, but it is fun to see Nelson at work. In the video, Willie...
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“It Ain’t You” From Ray Benson and Willie Nelson (Song of the Day)
Bismeaux Records earlier this year released a second solo album from Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. The new album, A Little Piece, features the song “It Ain’t You” with Willie Nelson. TwangNation...
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The First Farm Aid
On September 22, 1985, the first “Farm Aid” was held in Champaign, Illinois. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp organized the benefit concert for struggling American farmers. Performers at...
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Willie Nelson and Engelbert Humperdinck: “Make You Feel My Love”
Engelbert Humperdinck recently released a new album of duets, Engelbert Calling (2014). On one of the tracks, Willie Nelson joins Humperdinck on “Make You Feel My Love,” a song that Chimesfreedom has...
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Willie and Bobbie Nelson: “Who’ll Buy My Memories?”
Willie Nelson is releasing a new album, December Day, which features Nelson working with his sister Bobbie Nelson on a mix of songs that includes covers, classics, deep cuts, and new songs. One of the...
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