Country Capsule

Biography

Theirs is one of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry. The four-part harmonies and upbeat songs of The Oak Ridge Boys have spawned dozens of country hits and a #1 pop smash, earned them Grammy, Dove, CMA and ACM awards and garnered a host of other industry and fan accolades. Every time they step before an audience, the Oaks bring 15 years of hits and 50 years of tradition to bear on a stage show widely acknowledged as among the most exciting anywhere. And, each remains as enthusiastic about the process as they have ever been. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ernest was the youngest of five children of Calvin Tubb, the foreman of a 300-acre cotton farm, and his wife Sarah. In 1920 the family relocated to Benjamin, and then moved again, to Kemp, in 1925. The following year, his parents divorced and initially he stayed with his mother when she moved to her brother’s farm near Lively. His mother, a very religious woman who was one-quarter Cherokee, played the piano and organ and sang hymns around the farms and at the local church. Ernest’s education suffered and he later related that he only went to school when he could not find work. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Statler Brothers sing America’s songs. Whether it be about love or growing up in smalltown America, they have sung the sentiments of ordinary folks for a generation. In the process, they harmonized their way to superstardom. Read the rest of this entry »

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Combining careers as a country songwriter, producer and artist, Crowell has become an influential figure in Nashville’s new breed, along with Emmylou Harris, in whose Hot Band he worked for three years, Rosanne Cash, and fellow songwriters such as Guy Clark. Read the rest of this entry »

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Waylon Jennings is one of a handful of towering figures behind country music’s current phenomenal success. At a time when country’s audience easily embraces diversity and when platinum albums are getting to be more and more common, Waylon stands as a true forerunner, a pioneer who was among the first to pull north and south, rural and city, college kids and blue collar workers into a unified movement and who was the first, both as a solo artist and on the collaboration Wanted: The Outlaws, to go platinum as a country artist.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Ferlin Husky had three separate careers. Out of the three, the best-known is his country-pop career, which brought him to the top of the charts in the late ’50s, but he was also known as a honky tonk singer called Terry Preston and a country comic named Simon Crum. Of course, Preston and Crum are just footnotes to Husky’s very popular career, even though Crum nearly became a household name as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you tired of that hacking cough because you smoke cigarettes? Are tired of the embarrassing smell of your clothes and house? Are you tired of having yellow teeth? If your answer is yes, then it’s time to try the Blu Electronic Cigarette. Read the rest of this entry »

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Eddy Arnold, the smooth crooner of such classics as “Make The World Go Away” and “What’s He Doing In My World,” is the epitome of county-politan sophistication. So one might think that calling him “The Tennessee Plowboy” was just a marketing gimmick. Read the rest of this entry »

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Billy Walker was born on a farm but was raised in an orphanage after his mother’s death. When he was 11 years old, he returned to live with his father, who had remarried.

Walker learned the guitar from his father, and after seeing a Gene Autry film, he was determined to become a singer. He appeared on radio in Clovis when aged 15 and two years later appeared as “The Travelling Texan” on the Big D Jamboree radio show on KRLD Dallas.

Walker recorded for Capitol Records from 1949-51, but he did not make the US country charts until he recorded “Thank You For Calling” for Columbia in 1954. He dispensed with his mask and joined both Louisiana Hayride and Ozark Jubilee.

Since 1960, Walker has been a regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry. Walker was the first to record Willie Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away’ and he passed another of another Nelson”s songs, “Crazy”, to Patsy Cline. In 1962 Walker had his first US country number 1 with “Charlie’s Shoes” and subsequent successes included “Cross The Brazos At Waco”, “A Million To One”, “Sundown Mary”, “She Goes Walking Through My Mind” and “Sing Me A Love Song To Baby”, followed by a succession of minor chart successes for a variety of companies, including his own Tall Texan label.

By the end of 1988, he had placed 65 records in the US country charts, including duets with Barbara Fairchild, “The Answer Game” and “Let Me Be The One”. Among his own songs is a tribute to Marty Robbins, “He Sang The Songs About El Paso”. Walker, who is a born-again Christian, has built up a UK following with appearances at Wembley festivals and country clubs. In 1986, Walker said, “Current crossover trends are like mixing chocolate, strawberry and vanilla in the same bowl. Not only is it an ugly color but it leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”

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