by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
To say he has led a full life would be life’s greatest understatement. It hasn’t always been pretty, but it has always been real. It didn’t take Willie long to go from unknown songwriter in Nashville in the 60’s to outlaw in the 70’s, to...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
By his teen years, Bruton and his buddy T Bone Burnett were laying down tracks in Burnett’s makeshift home studio in between gigging with other pals like Delbert McClinton, all the while digging on musical giants like Freddie King and Ornette Coleman, who could be...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
He wrote four songs for George Strait’s 1985 album Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, which received the Album of the Year honors from the CMA and the ACM. In 1987, All My Ex’s Live In Texas written with his wife at the time, Lyndia Shafer, also became a #1 hit...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Inspired by another Lubbock boy, Buddy Holly, Mac formed a band of his own while in college, and moonlighted playing fraternity parties, high school hops, and local clubs around Atlanta. He also worked for the Georgia State Board of Probation and later continued his...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
To date, Black has written, recorded and released more than 100 songs, a benchmark in any artist’s career. Black’s continued success can be attributed in part to his deep sense of country music history, and his humble gratitude in being an important part...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Walker was writing songs by the time she was 12. Traveling to Los Angeles with her family in 1941, she insisted her father stop the car when she saw a building that housed Bing Crosby’s offices. An impromptu meeting with Crosby’s brother led to the singer...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Lee Roy Parnell, a multiple GRAMMY® Award nominee, singer/songwriter, soulful vocalist and No. 1 hit-maker, is widely recognized as one of the best slide guitar players on the planet. Parnell’s music runs the gamut of diversity. Combining the influences of...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
The late Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker of Linden, Texas was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Bruce first began singing and entertaining at local dances in his early teens in Texas, where he entered a recording studio to make a simple demonstration recording of a couple of new songs he had written. At the last minute, he substituted a brand new song he had...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
He made his first recordings as a member of the Ron-Dels and was noted for his distinctive harmonica work on Bruce Channel’s 1962 hit “Hey! Baby.” On a tour of the UK with Channel, McClinton met a young John Lennon and advised him on his harmonica...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
The long list of singers who have covered his songs includes Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson (who had a No. 1 country hit with “Pancho and Lefty” in 1983), Emmylou Harris, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Nanci Griffith, Hoyt Axton, Bobby Bare, the Tindersticks, and...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Lovett had more in common with ’70s singer/songwriters like Guy Clark, Jesse Winchester, Randy Newman, and Townes Van Zandt, combining a talent for incisive, witty lyrical detail with an eclectic array of music, ranging from country and folk to big-band swing...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
He paints musical portraits that are as vivid as sunsets over the great Southwest and stories that are as compelling and timeless as Cormac McCarthy novels. But what separates the Americana music pioneer from other songwriters is that he matches this lyrical...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Assigned to Special Services, he played fiddle in the Circle A Wranglers, a well-known service outfit previously started by PFC Faron Young. After Roger’s discharge from the Army, he headed directly for Nashville. Roger took a job as a bellhop at the Andrew...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Ronnie Dunn was born in Coleman, Texas to a hard living, truck driving, country music singing father and a conservative church-going mother. Dunn navigated a winding road that led him from West Texas to New Mexico, Arkansas and Oklahoma and through thirteen schools in...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
While he was still in high school, Sonny was frequently used on bills that included the young Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Hank Snow. When Elvis exploded onto the music scene in 1955, Sonny, Buddy Holly, J. I. Allison and other musician friends followed suit and...
