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Even though Germany’s Christian Lamitschka lives more than 4,500 miles from Music Row and English is his second language, his first love is country music. […]

Mark O’Connor also a virtuoso fiddler, said of Vassar, “He was one of the greatest most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass history.” Vassar was playing great fiddle at an early age, I know because he became a …. […]

When the Country Radio Seminar returns to town Feb. 22-24, keynote speaker Bob Pittman will set a powerful tone on Wednesday morning that will get […]

In mid-January, Eric Lee Beddingfield and his band left Nashville and traveled all day for a show in Riverton, Ill., just outside of Springfield.  They’d […]

Thompson Square, the husband-and-wife duo of Shawna and Keifer Thompson, is one of those overnight show business successes that in truth was over a dozen years in the making…. […]

What do Elvis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Quincy Jones, The Oak Ridge Boys, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ferlin Husky, Connie Smith and a few score of other artists have in common?… […]

I meet hundreds of talented artists and songwriters every month, some of who have attained widespread success in the music industry. I am often shocked by the high percentage of them who do not really know how the music industry works. It’s one thing to have a hit song, or songs. It’s quite another… […]

The St. Louis area, huge as it is, isn’t really known for producing a lot of famous musicians, especially country musicians. Producer/guitarist T-Bone Burnett, blue-eyed […]