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This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes for an encore presentation of our annual 60-Year Throwback episode. 1965 was the year Dylan went electric and the Greenwich Village folk scene was buzzing with change. You’ll hear classics from Joan Baez, Odetta, Johnny Cash, Phil Ochs, Bert Jansch, Donovan, Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band, Koerner, Ray & Glover, The Holy Modal Rounders, Bob Dylan (of course), and plenty more. It’s a snapshot of folk music on the edge of revolution—don’t miss it.

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A Tennessee judge ruled the case “unusual on its face.” Continue reading…

Three singers on this list have eight kids, while one country mama has nine. Continue reading…

Most of these you can do with things already sitting around your house. Continue reading…

Jelly Roll is one amazing guy. He is talented, kind, and motivated. And he likes to give back anytime he can. He did just that for Thanksgiving, per Holler, when he generously donated 300 holiday meals to the staff and inmates at a prison. Per the outlet, “Although not specified, this is believed to be […]

The post Jelly Roll Ensured That Inmates and Staff at a Nashville Prison Had a Happy Thanksgiving; Bunnie Xo Gives Back Too appeared first on Wide Open Country.

Danny Seagren was the first-ever live-action Spider-Man in the early 70s. Sadly, he passed away earlier this month, aged 81

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Johnny Cash, the intensely-admired country icon known as the Man in Black, died in 2003 at 71. Now, long after he passed away, his estate is reportedly suing the Coca-Cola Company, per Newsweek. According to the outlet, the lawsuit “alleg[es] that the beverage maker used an unauthorized imitation of the late singer’s voice in a […]

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Growing up country meant farm chores, back-of-the-truck rides, loud summer nights, and the kind of hard-earned life lessons today’s kids may never know. Continue reading…

What would you expect to see in a shopping village at Christmas? Holiday decorations perhaps, maybe a Christmas tree with lights or a Santa Claus with excited little kids on his lap. Those are all realistic possibilities, but a black bear walking around, poking and sniffing at anything he sees, is not. That is what […]

The post It’s Black (Bear) Friday When a Four-Legged Visitor Takes Leisurely Jaunt Around Shopping Village, Comes Close to Children appeared first on Wide Open Country.

SJ Tuohy, who was played as a young boy in ‘The Blind Side,’ has accepted his first role as an athletic director

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