AMERICANA MUSIC

The drummer Gilson Lavis, who was behind the kit for Squeeze between 1977 and 1992, has died at the age of 74.  The stickman played on the band’s best-known hits, which include “Tempted”, “Black Coffee in Bed”, and “Goodbye Girl”. Jools Holland, who worked with Lavis in Squeeze and in the keyboardist’s own Rhythm & […]

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Kip Moore has a bit of warning for all those copycat country music artists out there. I personally think that the country music star has some credibility when he throws out this warning, because you’d be hard pressed to find someone as unique and true to themself as Kip Moore. And I always have to mention that he just might be the most interesting man in the country music world. He loves to ride a wave surfing out on the […]

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Wasn’t a country fan, eh? When you think of Duck Dynasty, you probably assume that the Robertsons family listens to a lot of country music. A bunch of hunters from Louisiana definitely aren’t listening to Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift, right? Well no, but as it turns out, they weren’t listening to country either. Larry Fleet appeared on a recent episode of Unashamed, which is hosted by Jase and Al Robertson. And they revealed during the conversation that growing up, one rule that their […]

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