Charlie Robison, whose gritty songwriting and independent spirit helped pave the way for modern Texas music, has died at 59. His wife Kristen Robison confirmed his death in a Facebook post.
While a cult figure in the mainstream country music world, his influence throughout his native Texas and on the Red Dirt scene was undeniable. Robison’s 1998 album Life of the Party is a touchstone for Texas artists and was a ubiquitous soundtrack across the Lone Star State in the late Nineties, earning him a reputation as a successor to Robert Earl Keen.
While a cult figure in the mainstream country music world, his influence throughout his native Texas and on the Red Dirt scene was undeniable. Robison’s 1998 album Life of the Party is a touchstone for Texas artists and was a ubiquitous soundtrack across the Lone Star State in the late Nineties, earning him a reputation as a successor to Robert Earl Keen.
- 9/11/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Harry Belafonte, the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist, died Tuesday, April 25, Rolling Stone has confirmed. He was 96.
Belafonte died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine adding the cause was congestive heart failure.
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Belafonte rose to prominence in the Fifties when his interpretation of calypso music popularized the sounds...
Belafonte died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine adding the cause was congestive heart failure.
Related Harry Belafonte: Five Essential Songs Songwriter Keith Gattis, Whose Songs Were Cut by Kenny Chesney and George Strait, Dead at 52 Len Goodman, Longtime 'Dancing With the Stars' Judge, Dead at 78
Belafonte rose to prominence in the Fifties when his interpretation of calypso music popularized the sounds...
- 4/25/2023
- by Jason Heller
- Rollingstone.com
Keith Gattis, a Nashville songwriter, producer, and solo artist who had his songs recorded by Kenny Chesney and George Strait and who produced Randy Houser’s Americana pivot, Magnolia, has died at 52. A source close to Gattis confirmed his death on Sunday to Rolling Stone.
Gattis, a Texas native, began his career as a recording artist, releasing a self-titled debut album in 1996 via RCA Nashville. The song “Little Drops of My Heart” was issued as a single and peaked outside of the Top 40. Nearly a decade later, he independently dropped...
Gattis, a Texas native, began his career as a recording artist, releasing a self-titled debut album in 1996 via RCA Nashville. The song “Little Drops of My Heart” was issued as a single and peaked outside of the Top 40. Nearly a decade later, he independently dropped...
- 4/24/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Randy Houser is tired of chasing temporary trends. “I’m fed up with the bullshit,” he tells Chris Shiflett in this week’s episode of Walking the Floor, whose 52 minutes emphasize Houser’s move away from the poppy whims of the mainstream in favor of a unique, honest sound. “Win, lose or draw, I want to be happy creatively,” he adds. “That’s the most important thing to me.”
Recorded hours after Houser wrapped another weekend tour in support of this year’s Magnolia, the episode balances some of its...
Recorded hours after Houser wrapped another weekend tour in support of this year’s Magnolia, the episode balances some of its...
- 10/29/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Randy Houser appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night to perform his current single “What Whiskey Does.” The slow-burning ballad is a highlight of Houser’s latest album Magnolia, an LP that reconnects the Mississippi native with his bluesy roots.
Houser co-wrote “What Whiskey Does” with the album’s co-producer Keith Gattis and songwriter Hillary Lindsey, who joins Houser on Kimmel to offer harmony vocals. It’s a typically transfixing performance from Houser, whose voice dips and dives to applause from the audience.
While making Magnolia, Houser eschewed the...
Houser co-wrote “What Whiskey Does” with the album’s co-producer Keith Gattis and songwriter Hillary Lindsey, who joins Houser on Kimmel to offer harmony vocals. It’s a typically transfixing performance from Houser, whose voice dips and dives to applause from the audience.
While making Magnolia, Houser eschewed the...
- 2/6/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Aaron Lewis will return with his third full-length country album in 2019. The Staind vocalist will release the follow-up to 2016’s Sinner, titled State I’m In, via Big Machine imprint Valory Music on April 12th.
Produced by Buddy Cannon, State I’m In features 10 tracks, six of which Lewis had a hand in writing. Songwriting collaborators on the album include Dan Tyminski, Keith Gattis and Waylon Payne, among others. There’s also a recording of “Burnt the Sawmill Down,” written by Jim Elliot with the late Keith Whitley. Preorders for the album begin Friday,...
Produced by Buddy Cannon, State I’m In features 10 tracks, six of which Lewis had a hand in writing. Songwriting collaborators on the album include Dan Tyminski, Keith Gattis and Waylon Payne, among others. There’s also a recording of “Burnt the Sawmill Down,” written by Jim Elliot with the late Keith Whitley. Preorders for the album begin Friday,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Randy Houser remembers exactly where he was when he decided to throw it all away. Following a string of populist country radio hits, he became fed up with how he was expected to perform them live: shored up with various computerized bells and whistles that were meant to help him compete with his peers and their outsized live shows.
“We were playing along to all these tracks,” Houser says. “I walked out there one day and felt like I was a freaking puppet. I called my manager and said, ‘Take all these damn machines back.
“We were playing along to all these tracks,” Houser says. “I walked out there one day and felt like I was a freaking puppet. I called my manager and said, ‘Take all these damn machines back.
- 1/22/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Five years ago, country singer Randy Houser was on a blissful commercial hot streak. His How Country Feels album spawned four consecutive radio hits; the title track, which came on like 1997 Shania Twain with chugging guitars and titanic drums, was a strong entry in country’s long tradition of songs that emphatically assert their own country-ness.
Radio has largely abandoned Houser since then, which is unfortunate, but maybe that’s freed him up — his music is even better. In 2013, when aggressive genre hybrids ruled country, the singer had to roar...
Radio has largely abandoned Houser since then, which is unfortunate, but maybe that’s freed him up — his music is even better. In 2013, when aggressive genre hybrids ruled country, the singer had to roar...
- 1/11/2019
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Randy Houser has announced plans to release his new album Magnolia this fall, and with the news comes another song from the singer-songwriter, the thoughtful ballad “No Stone Unturned.”
The 12-track album, which was produced by Keith Gattis and recorded at his studio in East Nashville, derives its title from the nickname of Houser’s home state, Mississippi. Houser, who began his career penning hits like Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” co-wrote all the songs on Magnolia, with “No Stone Unturned” following “What Whiskey Does” as the second release from the album.
The 12-track album, which was produced by Keith Gattis and recorded at his studio in East Nashville, derives its title from the nickname of Houser’s home state, Mississippi. Houser, who began his career penning hits like Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” co-wrote all the songs on Magnolia, with “No Stone Unturned” following “What Whiskey Does” as the second release from the album.
- 8/24/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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