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Peter Cooper On Music: How polka found its place in Nashville
Brave Combo is Jeffrey Barnes, Carl Finch, Ginny Mac, Alan Emert and Little Jack Melody. Member Danny O’Brien is not pictured. Cowboy Jack Clement and Steve Popovich did plenty during their lives as...
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Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare, Jack Clement inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame
Click here for a photo gallery from the 2013 Medallion Ceremony. Here, Kenny Rogers, right, waves during the Medallion Ceremony at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Sunday. Kenny Rogers kept the...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Country music’s new rules
Miranda Lambert wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the 47th Annual CMA Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn, Wednesday, Nov. 6th. (photo: Larry McCormack/The Tennessean) Weird year...
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Interview: T Bone Burnett on the music of ‘Llewyn Davis’
T Bone Burnett performs during a benefit concert for Cowboy Jack Clement at War Memorial Center in downtown Nashville, Tenn. January 30, 2013. (Samuel M. Simpkins/The Tennessean) 13 years after "The...
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Taylor Swift named Tennessean of the Year
Taylor Swift officially opens the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on October 12, 2013, in Nashville. (Photo by Royce DeGrie/TAS/Getty Images for TAS) Taylor...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Country greats leave us in 2013
Click for a gallery of George Jones over the years (this photo of Jones in 1978: S.A. Tarkington / The Tennessean) Happy still pretty new year. Sad old year. As a Nashville music fan, I was glad to...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Don’t call Peter Guralnick a critic
Peter Guralnick has been called “a national resource” by critic Nat Hentoff for work that has argued passionately and persuasively for the vitality of this country’s intertwined black and white musical...
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Grammys 2014: The Tennessean Live Blog
Keith Urban, left, and Gary Clark, Jr. perform "Cop Car" on stage at the 56th annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP) It's...
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Peter Cooper On Music: War Memorial Auditorium gets better with age
Gorgeous downtown building, where they used to have the “Grand Ole Opry.” Chief Operating Officer Brent Hyams at War Memorial Auditorium (photo: Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean) Roy Acuff, Bill...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Clement and Scruggs’ house jams hosted many legends
A jam session outside Cowboy Jack Clement's house includes Ketch Secor and Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show. (photo: Peter Cooper) Want to buy one of Nashville’s greatest music venues? You can do...
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