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Music and Media Consultant Bruno del Granado talks about the CMA Awards and country music’s big business. *Subscribe: bit.ly
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Country Music Awards 2011 Recap
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“In the Spotlight With Robin Roberts” goes behind the scenes with the “American Idol” stars.
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Lauren Alaina & Scotty McCreery: Country Music’s New Stars
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Jace Everett chats to the Gympie Times at the Optus Gympie Music Muster 2011.
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Jace Everett at Gympie Music Muster
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The 2011 Tamworth Country Music Festival was held in the midst of the tragic floods terrorising Queensland. Many venues, concerts, performers and visitors helped raise funds for the Queensland Flood Appeal during the Festival. Here are snippets from Beccy Cole, Peel Street buskers, The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame and Bill Chambers- All digging deep to help support fellow Australians.
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Tamworth Country Music Festival- Day 2- 15th January 2011
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Music Video by Keith Urban performing Long Hot Summer. (P) (C) 2011 Hit Red Records under exclusive license to Capitol Records Nashville. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records Nashville, 3322 West End Avenue, 11th Floor, Nashville, TN 37203
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Down From The Mountain The story of the current bluegrass revival and how the music of a remote, rural region of America came to represent the “authentic” experience of the whole nation. When George Clooney made his way into a makeshift recording studio in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou he was re-living a turning point in musical history. Before the first recordings were made country music was trapped in the isolated Appalachian Mountains. The Big Bang: The Big Bang of Country Music took place in Bristol, Tennessee in August 1927. It was in a disused hat factory on State Street that East Coast talent scout Ralph Peer set up the world’s first portable recording equipment and recorded sessions with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. Lost Highway reconstructs these historic sessions using musicians instead of actors. Rodgers went on to become the first national star of country music, creating a blueprint for almost every solo performer to follow. The influence of the Carter Family, with their soulful gospel harmonies and intricate guitar playing, can be heard in every harmony group since. Together they laid the foundations for modern country music. The Mountain Tradition: Country music has roots that run deep into America’s soil and it came to life in the rural south-east mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, brought there by settlers from the British Isles. Songs would be passed down through generations and, because of the isolation of the Appalachians …
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Down From The Mountain The story of the current bluegrass revival and how the music of a remote, rural region of America came to represent the “authentic” experience of the whole nation. When George Clooney made his way into a makeshift recording studio in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou he was re-living a turning point in musical history. Before the first recordings were made country music was trapped in the isolated Appalachian Mountains. The Big Bang: The Big Bang of Country Music took place in Bristol, Tennessee in August 1927. It was in a disused hat factory on State Street that East Coast talent scout Ralph Peer set up the world’s first portable recording equipment and recorded sessions with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. Lost Highway reconstructs these historic sessions using musicians instead of actors. Rodgers went on to become the first national star of country music, creating a blueprint for almost every solo performer to follow. The influence of the Carter Family, with their soulful gospel harmonies and intricate guitar playing, can be heard in every harmony group since. Together they laid the foundations for modern country music. The Mountain Tradition: Country music has roots that run deep into America’s soil and it came to life in the rural south-east mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, brought there by settlers from the British Isles. Songs would be passed down through generations and, because of the isolation of the Appalachians …
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Lost Highway : The Story of Country Music: Part 1: Down From The Mountain 2/4
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