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09/06/2024

Let's GO raise some money for Hamilton Humane! 16th annual Wine, Wags & Whiskers!! ❤️🐾❤️🐾

05/06/2024

It’s one of the best weeks of the year, CMA week! Come hangout with me this week, I would love to see you!!

21/05/2024

21/05/2024

A hit recording artist at age thirteen, a “Rolling Stone” cover story at fifteen, and a millionaire at sixteen, Texas-born Tanya Tucker has been a resilient and high-spirited presence within country music for more than fifty years. Powered by her strong, husky voice and, often, adult-themed songs (“Delta Dawn,” “Blood Red and Goin' Down”), she landed six #1 songs before she turned eighteen. From 1986 to 1997, Tucker scored twenty-four Top Ten country hits.

In 2019, Tucker experienced a dramatic career resurgence after she began working with fellow musicians and admirers Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings. The pair co-produced the album “While I’m Livin’,” which won Tucker two Grammys—the first of her career. Tucker released a second album co-produced by Carlile and Jennings, “Sweet Western Sound," in 2023.

Tucker’s influence as a song stylist and as a strong, independent role model for women artists in country music continues to become more apparent as the years go by. As Carlile writes in an introductory note to “While I’m Livin’,” “There would be no Miranda, no Brandi, no Gretchen, no Maren without Tanya Tucker.”

Tucker was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2023.

Read more: https://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/tanya-tucker

21/05/2024

Our legacy.

13/05/2024

So this morning i got ready to receive an honorary doctorate from Duke University. I have been very plainspoken about my ambivalence around accolades, but I always strive to go where I am led and to acknowledge that somebody, somewhere, wanted to give me an honor (in this instance, someone from community who had advocated for me) and it's respectful to accept and be in place, and represent. I learned last night that the commencement speaker was Jerry Seinfield and I didnt give it much thought.

When i attend these kinds of events I struggle to understand my place in them; feeling more akin to the musicians playing beautifully, (and unfortunately mostly beautifully ignored), during the reception, than the honorees expected to give a speech. I have decided in general to take the experiences as they come and look for the spiritual reason I have been led there. In this instance it was a wonderful connection and conversation with my faculty sponsor, Sophia Enriquez, about the role Mexicans play in the creation of country music, and other deep topics. I look very much forward to furthering our association!

So this morning I was sitting on the platform next to Sophia after recieving my hood and as Seinfield was led to the platform I noticed the protest beginning; pretty soon substantial numbers of students with P@lest1n1@n flags stood up and left their seats, and chanting accompanied their departure. I felt distraught and uncertain because clearly there is a bigger story here that I didn't know - I have been deep in the act of music in place and in tradition this week and just haven't been aware. And it makes me think about the differing ways we try to make the world a better place and how they can't be the same for everyone; how the work of resistance, activism, and change is multifaceted and how it's going to take all of us to make a dent in this crazy mess.

To the students who protested today, I solute and support you. To the folks from my community affecting change from within the edifice, who advocated for me to receive this honour, I salute and support you. To the students and faculty who felt conflicted and didn’t know what to do, I support you too. There's things I agree with (standing with oppressed people) things I don't (sending money to governments violently oppressing those people), and none of that should be a surprise.

Sometimes we stand in liminal spaces, and it's hard. But not as hard as being killed or maimed, or seeing your loved ones killed or maimed. Let's be real - that is the hardest lot of all.

pic by Karen Cox

Edited to add: peace, love and understanding has never been won yet in the comments section of Facebook. I would refrain from arguing with people here- it’s a waste of time. Use that time and energy to go do something nice for someone.

12/05/2024

This was a splendid album, and few realize that Tom did this mostly in his basement with submixing/transfers finally resulting in just eight tracks for the final mix. Somebody gave us a - presumably pirated - copy of the tracks. Has that typical multitrack tape feel, with guitar ODs inserted in breaks in the vocals. We obviously won't share, but they do highlight Tom's impressive multitrack guitar runs, and the quality of each instrument, performance and recording. The drums are just kick and stereo ODs, but just listen! As a songwriter, Tom and friends just didn't catch on as he deserved. More Than A Feeling and Don't Look Back are, like, wow, but the stuff after that just wasn't so good to sing along and remember, at least for me. All that said, Tom and Boston deserve all the recognition they can get.

Thank You Far Out Magazine for recognizing Tom Scholz -BOSTON https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-10-best-produced-classic-rock-albums/

12/05/2024

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there from everyone here at the Mother Church! ♥️

12/05/2024

We've missed this now, but it's a reminder that Vince is a Nashville treasure. Sweetest voice, GOAT-potential picker, and by all accounts a nice guy. We're booked to see him at the Ryman real soon now.

Vince is playing the Grand Ole Opry Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4th! Get tickets at Opry.com or tune in live on WSM Radio.

12/05/2024

12/05/2024

Happy Mother’s Day! And three cheers for mothers who bring music into our lives. In 1943, Sara Carter, A. P. Carter, and Maybelle Carter—the famous trio known as the Carter Family—broke up their successful, influential act and ceased performing together. Never one to sit around idly, Maybelle Carter soon put together a successful country music act of her own with her three daughters: June, Helen, and Anita. They became known as Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters, and they built a solid following as they became featured performers on radio stations in, first, Richmond, Virginia and then Knoxville and Springfield, Missouri.

In 1950, Mother Maybelle and her daughters landed at Nashville station WSM and the Grand Ole Opry with talented sideman Chet Atkins as part of the act, and they soon became fan favorites. In 1961, the Carters joined the road show of Johnny Cash, touring for several years with the Man in Black. June Carter married Cash in 1968. This studio portrait from 1954 shows Mother Maybelle (center) with (from left) June, Anita, and Helen Carter. All three sisters became mothers themselves. In time, June’s children—Carlene Carter, Rosie Nix, and John Carter Cash—became known as country music performers, too.

Photo from the Walden S. Fabry Collection at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

12/05/2024

11/05/2024

We're all smiles to be celebrating Steve Wariner's 28th Opry Anniversary today! 😄

11/05/2024

Nashville! Jaimee will be performing in the round at The Bluebird Cafe with Ari Hest, Tommy Womack, & Marc Douglas Berardo tomorrow. Show’s SOLD OUT, but you might be able to snag a secret ticket at the door. 🐦 OR catch her with Grace Pettis, Rachel Laven, and Wes Collins on JUN 4. Grab your tix at www.jaimeeharris.com/tour & via link in bio 🔗

05.14.24: 7 Oaks Event Garden, Beaumont, TX *
05.15.24: Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe , Galveston, TX *
05.16.24: McGonigel's Mucky Duck, Houston, TX *
05.17.24: 04 Center, Austin, TX *
05.18.24: Wildflower Arts & Music Festival, Richardson, TX (w/ Brian Patterson)
05.19.24: The Redbird Listening Room , New Braunfels, TX *
05.22.24: Duling Hall, Jackson, MS *
05.24.24: Chickie Wah Wah , New Orleans, LA *
05.25.24: Red Dragon Listening Room, Baton Rouge, LA *
06.04.24: The Underdog , Nashville, TN +
06.05.24: The Flat Iron , Greensboro, NC +
06.08.24: Shed Songs , Lynchburg, VA +
06.09.24: The Pour House Music Hall & Record Shop , Raleigh, NC +

*Mary Gauthier
+Wes Collins

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11/05/2024

11/05/2024

Wendy Burns Mothers Day Jazz Celebration

11/05/2024

10/05/2024

Y’all, it’s ! My little business, FOLK N ROLL RECORDS, is having a little sale to celebrate the folks who keep me in business all year round. Just enter the code SMALLBIZ at checkout to receive 15% off your order. Link in story 🔗 www.jaimeeharris.com/store

⚡️Hats
⚡️Tees, Tanks, and Sweats
⚡️Vinyl and CDs
⚡️Handwritten Lyrics
⚡️Posters
⚡️Bandanas

10/05/2024

10/05/2024

She has a ln MCI 24-track in her interview room?

On June 24th, 2014, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with the beloved American journalist and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, the great Terry Gross. Fresh Air is an interview based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR.

Terry Gross is an icon of American broadcasting.

To say I was nervous would be quite the understatement. Terrified would be a better description of my mental state.

I arrived at the WHYY studio in Philadelphia almost two hours early. I sat alone in the parking lot, staring blankly out of the windshield, trying to calm myself down.

This was the biggest interview I'd ever been booked for, and doing it in person was unimaginable. Fresh Air guests are usually sent to the closest studio, often an NPR affiliate in New York or Chicago, Boston or LA, to record the interview remotely.

Not me. I would be seating with Terry in studio, face to face.

After counting minutes in my rental car the parking lot (for two hours), it finally came time for me to be there (for real). I called Terry's assistant, tried to act casual on the phone. He immediately came to the studio door, opened it, and I entered. He walked me past four six foot long tables covered in books piled eight to ten books high. I was told I could have any books I wanted, these were the books and authors Terry had recently passed on.

OMG.

This was not comforting.

I was walked into a small studio, instructed to wait, and I took the photo above.

Terry walked in fifteen minutes later, and I was struck by how tiny she was. In my minds eye I imagined her to be much larger, give the profound stature of her radio voice. But there was was, all 4′ 11″ of her.

She was friendly, but businesslike. She told me she did not like to talk much before the interview, we should save any discussions or exchanges for the recorded conversation.

She told me if I said something I regretted, I could stop the interview and try again. No big deal. We were taping it, it was not live.

Then, to try and loosen up my tight jaw, I said that I'd heard her interview the week before with Hillary Clinton, and I really appreciated it, especially the part where they had words about Clintons support or lack of support for gay marriage. That interview had made headlines around the world, as it had become a heated exchange.

Terry frowned and said, "I do not like interviewing politicians. They do not answer the questions."

I smiled weakly, nodded, then, we started in. Her first question to me was a doozy. I had to smile. There's a reason she is considered the best in the business. It's because, she is.

You can hear the interview at the link below.

https://www.npr.org/2014/06/24/325184074/mary-gauthier-on-de-romanticized-romantic-love

10/05/2024

01/05/2024

Liz and I spent a lovely afternoon at Evins Mill today, taking in the SongwritingWith:Soldiers weekend retreat final concert. I once served on this board. SW:S pairs veterans with Nashville songwriters. Together, they create songs about their experiences in the service - the pain, the heartache, the anger, and even the blessings.

I'm shown here with the songwriters: Radney Foster, Jay Clementi, Dylan Altman, and Sunny Sweeney The group shot is the veterans, the songwriters, and the SW:S staff.