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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
BILLY JOE SHAVER REMEMBERED
Singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, one of the great voices of outlaw country and a massive influence on the genre as a whole, died on 10/28 in Waco, Texas, reportedly of a stroke. He was 81.
Our dear friend Holly Gleason has written a heartfelt remembrance of the man and his work. "An almost primitive writer, capable of great poetry and earth-cracking truths, Shaver’s gift was an odd gentleness, a vulnerability that recognized the failings of our mortal coil matched with a hell-raising, take-no-shit kind of reckless good-timing," she writes. You can read Holly's soulful essay, "I'm Gonna Catch Tomorrow Now: Billy Joe Shaver's Rowdy Tonk for Believers," in its entirety here.
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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