Ted Drozdowski
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April 28, 2009
"I made this album like it was my last," insisted Billy Ray Cyrus - even though Back to Tennessee is far from his elegy.
After all, Cyrus continues to be Country's high-profile presence in various media. The upcoming "Hannah Montana: The Movie" will mark his ninth film role. Between hosting NBC-T...
March 26, 2009
"I made this album like it was my last," insisted Billy Ray Cyrus - even though Back to Tennessee is far from his elegy.
After all, Cyrus continues to be Country's high-profile presence in various media. The upcoming "Hannah Montana: The Movie" will mark his ninth film role. Between hosting NBC-T...
March 07, 2009
It's no surprise that Heidi Newfield would get another shot. After all, she's the voice of "Pour Me," Trick Pony's whiskey-drinking anthem of 2000.
But this time that shot isn't at the bar of a high-flying honky tonk like Nashville's Wildhorse Saloon, where the band made its name during its earl...
January 12, 2009
When Country Music singers bust a "pipe," they don't call the plumber - they contact a vocal coach.
"Emergency repairs are often what bring singers to me," explained Renee Grant-Williams, long established as one of Nashville's top vocal instructors. "But the goal is to keep accidents, like a r...
July 15, 2008
Ask the song hounds - producers, artists and other music bizzers who sniff out hits in haystacks of demos - what it takes to find a smash, and they'll often describe their special blend of market savvy and musical sense as "ears."
Maybe ears get too much credit. What about the inner ear's bas...
November 29, 2007
Country Music has its hallowed places, and among one of the most revered is Nashville's RCA Studio B.
The outside of this rectangular brick building at 1611 Roy Acuff Place is nondescript, save for the chink a nervous Dolly Parton put in the wall with her car as she arrived for one of her early...